Avatar Question

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-22 01:44am

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.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-22 01:46am

It's always been 6, but I think there was a bug that let avs greater than 6 if linked from some other website.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-22 01:47am

That's odd. My avatar I'm using right now is over 8K.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-22 01:50am

Durran Korr wrote:That's odd. My avatar I'm using right now is over 8K.

Did you upload it?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-22 01:53am

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.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-22 01:57am

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?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-22 01:58am

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.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-22 02:25am

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?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-22 02:28am

You're current one is ~4.7K, according to Sarah.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-22 02:32am

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.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-22 02:34am

Nope, even when I save it, it's less then 5K.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-22 02:38am

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.

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2003-02-22 02:42am

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.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-22 02:42am

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.

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2003-02-22 02:49am

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.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-22 04:37am

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?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-23 05:11pm

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/

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-23 05:21pm

Xenogears is PSX? Always wanted to play it.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-23 05:26pm

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.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-23 05:32pm

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.