Sig Test

[Denary]

w00t I got a brill new sig and I got my avatar working, now all I need to do is edit the last frame on the sig with a better pic,

[Twaggy]

Sweet den:D

Could have done with being a little lighter:)

[Denary]

Lol I'll remember that, btw I changed the end pic, so u may wanna take a look

[HoniezUk]

ooooh quality!
nice one :D

[Ackercoke]

Very nice...only probs i can see

*constructive Critisism*

Combat text has been left on...go 250pts of damage

should use AA for the close up of your face...and use a 1-3px feather

finally the last clip need to be extended in duration so it can be read...

but as I say just think about this for the next sig mate

*edit* wohoa massive file to...Dv fave quote right now would be

"breach of the Geneva convention for weapons of Mass Bandwidth Destruction"

[G0rF]

Could I refer you to THIS (http://www.the-causality.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1435) thread in the RULES section?

[Denary]

I'll tell u what, I'll send ya all 72 images and I'll let u resize em because I think it took me 2 hours to get the files into whatever size it is now

[Tytanya]

Very cool Den though I agree getting it a bit lighter would help, sadly I have tried a number of times to produce a cool animated sig but they all stack really large and once I get the size under control I dont like the quality =/.

[Renzouken]

It's not the size in terms of pixels they're on about Den...

It's the KB's dude, take a few frames out or save as an .AVI compress the video then turn it back into a .GIF. I had to compress, delete frames, reduce colour, etc... with my sig, that's why the colour looks so shite on it but I could just about get away with it because I went for that 'gritty' Fight-Club' feel in the first place... And 72 Images? Try playing with 159 images in an animation and get them under 9K lol, that was... Hard...

In any case sweet sig mate, a transition would've looked sweet between the fight scene and the still frame with the close-up and text, but that adds mucho-frames and makes it even larger. : (

What Acker said about the AA too, needs smoothing out just the tiniest bit, but other than that, liking it mate. : )

[Jekht]

aye lovely sig dude,

Except its hitting 1mb almost. Combine this with all the other stuff you have to download when u enter a page, it ends up as a fairly sizey download for the user.

Lower it down abit please

[Ackercoke]

I'll tell u what, I'll send ya all 72 images and I'll let u resize em because I think it took me 2 hours to get the files into whatever size it is now

you using photoshop, comes with Image ready, stick all frapped pic in one folder...import folder as .gif from file > import

all in full size ready on one .gif

now grab crop tool...set it to 450 x 150 drag across the part of the image you want and "et voila" all pics will come in at 450 x 150 really easy mate

[G0rF]

Just a reminder, Sigs should be about 500x150 at the most.

Ideally, they should have a filesize of no more than 350 - 400KB.

You can stretch it a bit, but if it's obviously oversize (3 times oversize even), you'll get the sticker and everyone will laugh at you.

Please Den, most workplaces monitor bandwidth use.

A single page with yours and Ackers sigs on, and nothing else is a Meg and a half.

Thats £1.50 on a 3G card, for those on the mobile.

[Veube]

All you full screen animated sig whores need to take a leaf out of Renzs / Dvs book of subtlety !!

[Denary]

Ok I've made it smaller I think it's around 500kb, I cut out some of the first images, we'll see how it is.

oh and btw once you have downloaded it once, unless you clear your temp internet files everytime you log on, it will save the image for when you log on again, the first time u see this next sig it will seem crap but it speeds up second time round

[G0rF]

And those of us that use a free-cache proxy?

We just wait...

LOL, no, it looks the same, just shorter... did you extend the display-time of each frame at all, or does that make it look jerky?

[Renzouken]

Denary: first time u see this next sig it will seem crap but it speeds up second time round
I thaught that was the problem with my current sig, as it is when viewed over the net the frames from where the explosion effect ends and the implosion effect begins through to where the implosion fades to black are very choppy. If viewed through my own files on my comp the implode effect is 100% faster, I'm a bit gutted, 'cause that part of the anim was so rapid I didn't bother to detail as much, and It kinda spoils the whole sig IMO.

Any clues as to why it could be doing this and how to sort it? Relly annoys the hell outa me might scrap the sig alltogether, ruins it.

Glitched.

[Denary]

To Dv, yeh I'm like on the border of making it choppy, so I'd say the slowest you can make it b4 it becomes really choppy is around 10-20 fps, mines around 15fps at the moment, but on my first version I kicked the guy I cut that bit out and that was around half the sig.

to renz, I really don't understand exactly what yer sayin lol but 1 way to increase the speed is use fraps or summat to film yer image, then using an film editing software go through every frame and use the printscreen button, that way you can much more easily get every frame. when you take a frame out make sure you take out ones that arn't much different from the ones before and after, if you're really desperate then take out a crappy part of the file. but usually the first time you veiw any big sig it has to download the sig to the temporary internet files folder, either your computer is very slow or it isn't downloading the sig properly

[Veube]

either your computer is very slow.....
Go on. Deck 'im, Renz ! lolz

[Renzouken]

Erm... I allready have every individual frame, that sig is my own, created in Photoshop....

Lolz. Slow Comp. ;)

[Denary]

well I've said it b4 and I'll say it again your sig is teh SUXORS

[Renzouken]

Okay Den. http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

Call me when you ca... Nah, actually that's how I get myself into trouble on these boards. Right Jekht? http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif

Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but sig right here, has a meaning...

Glitched.

[G0rF]

then using an film editing software go through every frame and use the printscreen button, that way you can much more easily get every frame.
Jeezuz really???

Try opening it up in Animation Shop, which seperates the frames for you.

@Ren: Is your framerate constant? Should it be?

[Twaggy]

DV is right there;)

Also...OWNED lol

but yeah so much less fuss with animation shop:)

[Renzouken]

Nah frame rate isn't constant man, slows with the blinking of the cursor, then when the cursor scrolls to reveal the writing I think I set it to 2FPS, untill the explosion effect which is 3/4FPS and then finally from the Implosion effect to the fade to black it should be running at 1FPS.

Nevermind though, I'm working on a new one at the miniute. :)

*Note to self* Must utilise video to Animation Shop more, editing frames in Photoshop - Bad.

[Twaggy]

*Note to self* Must utilise video to Animation Shop more, editing frames in Photoshop - Bad.

Want that tattood on your head?;)