August 3, 200816 yr I save the files as a .gif so I can get transparency! .gif supplies transparency ?! But how do I get it off Paint and on to my Brickshelf with it still being transparent?
August 3, 200816 yr Ive made my Smiley Transparent but White isnt showing up. How do I get it to show? Thanks
August 4, 200816 yr Should I mention that the sample for this 35x20 contest is 21 pixels tall, as are most of our official icons?
August 4, 200816 yr Okay here's my first entry:1) Monkey! I'm sort of surprised there wasn't already a monkey, every pirate needs a monkey. For when you are feeling mischievous (or helpful, depending on the monkey I guess). 2) Squawk! Are you noticing a pattern with my entries? 3) I think of this as a happy shark. The pirate animal smiley trilogy is now complete! I guess the crocodile is also a pirate animal, but I think I've spent enough of my morning on this already. I vote for you, since you took all my ideas (monkey and parrot smileys).
August 4, 200816 yr Should I mention that the sample for this 35x20 contest is 21 pixels tall, as are most of our official icons? Good point . Frankly, it ticks me off that you give a blank head that's more than 20 pixels tall, as IS has said. In fact, I have a really good custom that is just more than 20, and I'm upset that I can't use it. Are you sure you don't mean 35 pixels tall instead of 20? Edited August 4, 200816 yr by Adam
August 4, 200816 yr Begun, the Smiley Wars have.Sorry. Had to say it. Staudie. We're sorry too. Now go make an emoticon. You could make a little ImperialShadows.
August 4, 200816 yr Tenorikuma (is that spelt right) you could always make your own monkey shark and parrot smileys.
August 4, 200816 yr Sounds like fun!1. I think it needs a black border, it looks a bit odd without it... Any reason why there isn't one?
August 4, 200816 yr Frankly, it ticks me off that you give a blank head that's more than 20 pixels tall, as IS has said. In fact, I have a really good custom that is just more than 20, and I'm upset that I can't use it. Yes, I am the same. Hopefully we will be allowed to use them... :skull:
August 4, 200816 yr Ive made my Smiley Transparent but White isnt showing up. How do I get it to show?
August 4, 200816 yr Yes, I am the same. Hopefully we will be allowed to use them... :skull: I think that everything should be allowed to be as tall as Yoda with his pirate hat(). Besides, everyone is breaking the rules- some people are using the 21 pixel blank head, which shouldn't be allowed .
August 4, 200816 yr Author Governor Frankly, it ticks me off that you give a blank head that's more than 20 pixels tall, as IS has said. In fact, I have a really good custom that is just more than 20, and I'm upset that I can't use it. Are you sure you don't mean 35 pixels tall instead of 20? Most of the Pirate smileys are 20 or 21 pixels tall so the blank smiley is the same size. Any bigger and the smiley will interfere with the line height of the text. If the smiley is exceptionally good then you might be able to get away with adding 1 or 2 extra pixels, but I'd strongly advise to stay within the limits otherwise the smiley won't be selected if it is likely to cause display issues. Ive made my Smiley Transparent but White isnt showing up. How do I get it to show? You need to change the background colour to off white and set transparency on that colour.
August 4, 200816 yr Most of the Pirate smileys are 20 or 21 pixels tall so the blank smiley is the same size. Any bigger and the smiley will interfere with the line height of the text.If the smiley is exceptionally good then you might be able to get away with adding 1 or 2 extra pixels, but I'd strongly advise to stay within the limits otherwise the smiley won't be selected if it is likely to cause display issues. You need to change the background colour to off white and set transparency on that colour. So if it's exeptionally good you'd be able to get away with a 23 pixel? Or one the size of ? Edited August 4, 200816 yr by Adam
August 4, 200816 yr So if it's exeptionally good you'd be able to get away with a 23 pixel? Or one the size of ? Hmm... Mine's 34 by 24 and I will enter it soon, hopefully it's acceptable. :skull:
August 4, 200816 yr Author Governor So if it's exeptionally good you'd be able to get away with a 23 pixel? Or one the size of ? Only if it's exceptionally good... Don't go any larger unless you really have to.
August 4, 200816 yr Most of the Pirate smileys are 20 or 21 pixels tall so the blank smiley is the same size. Any bigger and the smiley will interfere with the line height of the text.If the smiley is exceptionally good then you might be able to get away with adding 1 or 2 extra pixels, but I'd strongly advise to stay within the limits otherwise the smiley won't be selected if it is likely to cause display issues. You need to change the background colour to off white and set transparency on that colour. Im using Gimp and making it white is getting Quite annoying... Could someone please help me!
August 4, 200816 yr Not so much related to the subject matter, but this topic just took me 20 minutes to open up! Everything else on the computer was working fine during the time, so I don't think it was my computer... Anyone know why? :skull:
August 5, 200816 yr Author Governor How many attempts did you make to load this topic? If it was just the once then I wouldn't worry about it, but if you receive continuous bad performance then there might be problem.
August 5, 200816 yr How many attempts did you make to load this topic? If it was just the once then I wouldn't worry about it, but if you receive continuous bad performance then there might be problem. Fortunately it was working today, but yesterday I tried opening it about 7 times within those 20 minutes, none of them worked, and I didn't have much going on in the background. Every other topic I looked at on Eurobricks at the same time was working... Also, once I had made that last post, it took ages until the page had loaded up again. At least it's fine now. :skull:
August 8, 200816 yr Just added another (and probably last) entry. It's a cannon! I'm a bit happy with it, though I think I would need to shorten the barrel and fix the wheels at the base Sunday August 3rd and Saturday August 10th. The 10th is on a Sunday
August 8, 200816 yr Well I still need this question answered to enter: Ive made my Smiley Transparent but White isnt showing up. How do I get it to show? Im using Gimp and making it white is getting Quite annoying... Could someone please help me! And no one has even said "I dont know"...
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