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Avatar Question
Posted: 2003-02-22 01:44am
by Joe
Trying to upload an avatar earlier, I noticed that the limit is currently only 6 KB. Is this something recently instituted that I looked over, because I'm sure I've had avatars exceeding 6 KB in the past.
Posted: 2003-02-22 01:46am
by Dalton
It's always been 6, but I think there was a bug that let avs greater than 6 if linked from some other website.
Posted: 2003-02-22 01:47am
by Joe
That's odd. My avatar I'm using right now is over 8K.
Posted: 2003-02-22 01:50am
by Dalton
Durran Korr wrote:That's odd. My avatar I'm using right now is over 8K.
Did you upload it?
Posted: 2003-02-22 01:53am
by Joe
Dalton wrote:Durran Korr wrote:That's odd. My avatar I'm using right now is over 8K.
Did you upload it?
No, but the one you're looking at now, the old one, is over 6K.
Posted: 2003-02-22 01:57am
by Dalton
Durran Korr wrote:Dalton wrote:Durran Korr wrote:That's odd. My avatar I'm using right now is over 8K.
Did you upload it?
No, but the one you're looking at now, the old one, is over 6K.
I have no clue why that is...maybe if you're on a different filesystem?
Posted: 2003-02-22 01:58am
by Joe
Dalton wrote:Durran Korr wrote:Dalton wrote:Did you upload it?
No, but the one you're looking at now, the old one, is over 6K.
I have no clue why that is...maybe if you're on a different filesystem?
Maybe, well, I'll just download some stuff and compress it.
Posted: 2003-02-22 02:25am
by Joe
Hmm, this is really strange; my old avatars, which are above 6K, have no trouble being uploading; my new avatars, however, exceed 6K and cannot be uploaded. Anyone know what's up?
Posted: 2003-02-22 02:28am
by Spanky The Dolphin
You're current one is ~4.7K, according to Sarah.
Posted: 2003-02-22 02:32am
by Joe
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:You're current one is ~4.7K, according to Sarah.
Huh, that's odd. Paint Shop Pro (I'm not an image wizard) has it around 8K.
Posted: 2003-02-22 02:34am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Nope, even when I save it, it's less then 5K.
Posted: 2003-02-22 02:38am
by Dalton
Oh, that's right. File size estimations in those progs are often wrong, in my experience. It might have been for a max-quality JPEG.
Posted: 2003-02-22 02:42am
by Cyborg Stan
I'm guessing Paint Shop Pro simply is telling you the size of the thing before compression. Which version do you have? You can fiddle around with an optimizer in the later ones.
Posted: 2003-02-22 02:42am
by Joe
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Nope, even when I save it, it's less then 5K.
Ah....taken care of. Just had to goof around with the compression.
Posted: 2003-02-22 02:49am
by Cyborg Stan
Yep. Simply copying and pasting the image into Paint Shop Pro tells you at the file size is 23.4 KB.... at 16 million colors. Reduce down to 256 colors and you get the 8.8 KB figure you got, and finally saving to GIF got you the 4.7 KB that is the actual size. Mind you, this is what you'd expect : 100x80xByte(For 256 colors) = 8 KB, and 100x80x3*Byte : For 16 million, it's RGB all gets three seperate values, from 0 to 255) = 24 KB.
Posted: 2003-02-22 04:37am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Durran, what's your current avatar? It looks really nice (could be a little clearer, but still really nice).
And would you mind letting me know where I can find the original?
Posted: 2003-02-23 05:11pm
by Joe
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Durran, what's your current avatar? It looks really nice (could be a little clearer, but still really nice).
And would you mind letting me know where I can find the original?
Spanky, sorry for not responding earlier. It's Elhaym Van Houten the heroine of Xenogears, in a sketch. You can find the picture it's taken from here:
http://pacolyn.org/FF/Xenogears/people/ ... aces-1.jpg
and lots of other beautiful Elly artwork here:
http://pacolyn.org/targeted-view/FF/Xen ... ople/elly/
Posted: 2003-02-23 05:21pm
by Dalton
Xenogears is PSX? Always wanted to play it.
Posted: 2003-02-23 05:26pm
by Joe
Dalton wrote:Xenogears is PSX? Always wanted to play it.
Yeah, it's PS, it's something of a cult favorite at this point; I don't think there's a console RPG out there with a more devoted fanbase than XG has, not even Final Fantasy. It's one of the most-sought after PS titles there is now, but if you can find it it's a great experience. The plot just sucks you in.
Posted: 2003-02-23 05:32pm
by Dalton
Durran Korr wrote:Dalton wrote:Xenogears is PSX? Always wanted to play it.
Yeah, it's PS, it's something of a cult favorite at this point; I don't think there's a console RPG out there with a more devoted fanbase than XG has, not even Final Fantasy. It's one of the most-sought after PS titles there is now, but if you can find it it's a great experience. The plot just sucks you in.
I had heard it was done by the same team as Chrono Trigger; it's no wonder it's so popular. Preowned it's as expensive as FFX. I'll have to see if my FuncoLand has a copy.
