New Look For USVSD

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-08-20 09:14am

I've had this idea for a couple years, and finally decided to do it:

http://www.mrpoesmorgue.com/usvsd/usvsd.html

Its nothing spectacular, and I did check it on IE and Mozilla. Let me know if it doesn't work for anyone.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-08-20 09:24am

I like it. Fits with the ideas and presentations on your site.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-08-20 09:26am

Nice, but angle of TL bolts for the Sovvie and the Galaxy is wrong if they would come from the SD.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-08-20 09:28am

Ghost Rider wrote:I like it. Fits with the ideas and presentations on your site.

Thanks. I was going to add sound effects too, but thought that might be a bit much!

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-08-20 09:28am

Lord Revan wrote:Nice, but angle of TL bolts for the Sovvie and the Galaxy is wrong if they would come from the SD.

Why? There's guns all over that ship.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-08-20 10:03am

Lord Poe wrote:
Lord Revan wrote:Nice, but angle of TL bolts for the Sovvie and the Galaxy is wrong if they would come from the SD.
Why? There's guns all over that ship.

cause they look they're not coming from the ship but from empty space.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-08-20 10:22am

Lord Revan wrote:
Lord Poe wrote:
Lord Revan wrote:Nice, but angle of TL bolts for the Sovvie and the Galaxy is wrong if they would come from the SD.
Why? There's guns all over that ship.
cause they look they're not coming from the ship but from empty space.

How so, given it's the only thing there?

The angle he chose for the Galaxy is nearly the same as he chose for the Constitution. The Sovvie is only coming from a closer angle. The weirdest angle is the Negh'var shot. But given the way the guns are assembled on an ISD, they can and do come from those angles.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-08-20 10:25am

The only one I'd say has a weird angle is the Neg'var. It looks like the TL's being shot from the engines.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-08-20 10:28am

Ghost Rider wrote:
Lord Revan wrote:
Lord Poe wrote: Why? There's guns all over that ship.
cause they look they're not coming from the ship but from empty space.
How so, given it's the only thing there?

The angle he chose for the Galaxy is nearly the same as he chose for the Constitution. The Sovvie is only coming from a closer angle. The weirdest angle is the Negh'var shot. But given the way the guns are assembled on an ISD, they can and do come from those angles.

what I'm saying is that the bolt look like they're coming from some poin near the middle of the screen (aka just empty space(aka from none of the ships) instead of the SD.

EDIT:I took new look at it and even the shot to the connie seem to come from the middle instead of the SD.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-08-20 10:31am

Lord Revan wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:
Lord Revan wrote:cause they look they're not coming from the ship but from empty space.
How so, given it's the only thing there?

The angle he chose for the Galaxy is nearly the same as he chose for the Constitution. The Sovvie is only coming from a closer angle. The weirdest angle is the Negh'var shot. But given the way the guns are assembled on an ISD, they can and do come from those angles.
what I'm saying is that the bolt look like they're coming from some poin near the middle of the screen (aka just empty space(aka from none of the ships) instead of the SD.

And like I said....how so, given it's the only thing there?

If Poe had a TIE fighter or something between the two points I could see the point and even the confusion, no matter how humorous, but there is only one thing there, and it's firing green bolts of death.

Unless you can point out something that would give the indication that there is something else, this is literally nitpicking because he didn't angle the bolts at some perfect 73 degree angle from the vessel.

Post by **The Wookiee** » 2005-08-20 10:41am

Fucking hell, they're just graphical elements. Jeez.

Also, Wayne, I'd add bits of javascript to preload the rollover images.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-08-20 10:45am

Great.

Wonder if DarkStar's started ranting about how this exposes your obvious subjective bias yet.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-08-20 10:47am

Ghost Rider wrote:And like I said....how so, given it's the only thing there?

If Poe had a TIE fighter or something between the two points I could see the point and even the confusion, no matter how humorous, but there is only one thing there, and it's firing green bolts of death.

Unless you can point out something that would give the indication that there is something else, this is literally nitpicking because he didn't angle the bolts at some perfect 73 degree angle from the vessel.

well I didn't get that were suppose to be TL bolt until I saw the Romulan and Klingon ships getting hit (I thought that the SD was another link.

FedRebel · Post by **FedRebel** » 2005-08-20 12:01pm

To end the bickering, this is what Lord Revan is talking about

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-08-20 12:05pm

That is so amazingly not what I see.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-08-20 12:15pm

Browser issues perhaps? Or the cookies?

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-08-20 12:41pm

Pcm979 wrote:That is so amazingly not what I see.

could you post what you see?

Elheru Aran wrote:Browser issues perhaps? Or the cookies?

perhaps. I'm using Mozilla 1.7.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-08-20 01:24pm

The Wookiee wrote:Fucking hell, they're just graphical elements. Jeez.

Yeah, listen to the Wookiee!

Also, Wayne, I'd add bits of javascript to preload the rollover images.

Do you mean width/height notations?

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-08-20 01:26pm

FedRebel wrote:To end the bickering, this is what Lord Revan is talking about

Wow... one of the spacer.gif elements isn't loading for you? That's really strange.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-08-20 03:15pm

Lord Revan wrote:
Pcm979 wrote:That is so amazingly not what I see.
could you post what you see?

*Anime sweatdrop*
That is a very good question. Can I?

Lord Revan wrote:
Elheru Aran wrote:Browser issues perhaps? Or the cookies?
perhaps. I'm using Mozilla 1.7.

It says here that I'm using 1.6.

Darth Mall · Post by **Darth Mall** » 2005-08-20 04:26pm

Lord Poe wrote:
FedRebel wrote:To end the bickering, this is what Lord Revan is talking about

Snip
Wow... one of the spacer.gif elements isn't loading for you? That's really strange.

I'm getting the same thing, but if i resize my window and make it smaller the images move into place.

For example on my regular resolution of 1600x1200 i get this:

While when I resize it i get:

So maybe your missing a break or something somewhere? I really don't know that much HTML

Oh, and I am on firefox 1.6 to, but it does the same thing in IE.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-08-20 04:30pm

What resolution are you using? I'm 1280x1024 and it looks like the picture for me.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-08-20 04:43pm

I'm using 1152x864

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-08-20 04:59pm

Lord Poe wrote:Do you mean width/height notations?

No, there's a way in javascript to preload images that show up during rollover. This is what you do:

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var x = new Image();
x.src = "y.jpg"

Do that for each image and make sure you match the image names to the file names. This'll speed things up a bit when the page is first loaded and the viewer rolls over the picture.

Now, the problem with your index is that if someone's screen is big enough, the spacer image will still be on the first line. To fix it, simply put a <BR> tag after the first three images.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-08-20 09:16pm

Dalton wrote:Do that for each image and make sure you match the image names to the file names. This'll speed things up a bit when the page is first loaded and the viewer rolls over the picture.

Thanks, Rob! It seems to be working.

Now, the problem with your index is that if someone's screen is big enough, the spacer image will still be on the first line. To fix it, simply put a <BR> tag after the first three images.

Well, I tried that several ways, but the images kept going off center or completely out of whack. Can you elaborate? BTW, I'm at 1024x768 resolution. This is no longer standard?