Taken avatars

SirCumferance · Post by **SirCumferance** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 7:30 pm

I think this is getting very frustrating... I get an avatar that I know nobody else has, and somebody new joins and takes it. (I have nothing against you whoever you are) First I had the Bull shield, then sombody new takes it. Whatever, I can deal with that. But then when I get another, one that I realy like, then another person takes it! Now I am getting annoyed. I know that they probobly didn't know, but still! Maybe something that makes it so once sombody has an avatar then nobody else can use it would be good...

the_great_one · Post by **the_great_one** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 7:35 pm

Why dont you create your own avatar of a charachter of your or something? then nobody would have that one!!

Nikos

SirCumferance · Post by **SirCumferance** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 8:50 pm

Hmmm... not a bad idea, not a bad idea at all! The problem is that I don't have any good software for things like that.

gcg · Post by **gcg** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 9:13 pm

Bah! I spit on good sowtware! i did mine with MS Paint. All you need is a steady hand and some patience.

LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 9:41 pm

Um - I did all of these in mspaint,
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=66923
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=583842
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=63714

as well as my own avatar, and I can pretty much say no one uses my avatar but me.

Please understand that I am not 'patting myself on the back' here, a lot of guys here do great stuff. Just check out all the different avatars and you will see what I mean. I am just offering to help a fellow CCC member.

freak

Post by **Troy** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:00 am

SirCumferance wrote:I think this is getting very frustrating... I get an avatar that I know nobody else has, and somebody new joins and takes it.

You are using avatars from the public avatar gallery. This is what happens. There are only so many avatars available there. If we made them exclusive, then only 30 or so people could have them. That doesn't seem very fair.

Troy

JPinoy · Post by **JPinoy** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 5:33 pm

My advice is to create a small image of a minifig or whatever you like and use that as your avatar. Thats what I did for my avatar.

stuifzand · Post by **stuifzand** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:53 pm

It is because you have to upload your avatar at this forum. If you could link to your own webspace where your avatar is placed this wouldn't be a problem. *hint to admin*

Lord Resta · Post by **Lord Resta** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 3:06 pm

Uh, you can do that! At least it was like that when I joined just last week. I don't know how to resize my picture. It's the wrong pixelation at the moment. I can use MS Paint or Photo impact bundled edition. If someone could tell me?

wlister · Post by **wlister** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 5:10 pm

MS Paint makes files that are to big memory-wise anyway. You need to try another image editor. I am not familiar with Photo Impact, but if you can re-size the image to 120 - 120 and resample the image Compression Quality Factor to a lower setting, you can make the image work as an avatar. If you can't manage that, post the image to Brickshelf and then Private Message me with the link to your image. I can re-size it and upload it to brickshelf for you. Hope this helps,

William

Sir Terrance · Post by **Sir Terrance** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 4:44 pm

Wow, LEGOFREAK, those are awesome!!! I don't have a really good drawing program for custom shields and now I realize everyone who owns a computer does!!! Very inspiring, uh, what did you use as a template? And by the way I just keep the avatar I like and keep it as that, however I will be making a custom one soon.

LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 6:38 pm

Sir Terrance wrote:Wow, LEGOFREAK, those are awesome!!! I don't have a really good drawing program for custom shields and now I realize everyone who owns a computer does!!! Very inspiring, uh, what did you use as a template? And by the way I just keep the avatar I like and keep it as that, however I will be making a custom one soon.

Hi dude
I just submitted a how to article to Kevin, and it needs to be edited, but it should answer a lot of your questions. I use MSPAINT to make the shields, and I use Anthonys shield template as a starting point. I have also created about 40 basic heraldic patterns that I use.
Anyway - just check it out when it is finally up .

freak

(ps - thanks man! i like compliments

)

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