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Was thinking about this...what if it was possible to put in a flash animation in your avatar without changing the current rules (height, width and size). It's quite possible to make some cool animations in for example Swiss that doesnt use more loading(-time) than animated gif's. Who's up for the idea? |
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I made all my gifs in Animation Shop, that's the only program I've used really. I'm not sure about the properties of flash animations, maybe Phob can answer this one... |
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some computers don't even have flash. .gif is a nice all round format, and the size restriction keeps loading times down already, so I don't see any need to complicate the whole avatar experience. good idea though,... |
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me toooo animation shop is the best! don't know either about flash or whatsoever |
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it's not to complicate things...just to shine them up... I wouldnt mind flash-animation under 12Kb...you can't put in any sound, just text-animation (maybe some pictures too)... It's quite easy using Swiss |
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would it be hard to put restristions on these things? (sounds pop-ups etc..) would it be possible for someone to do something destructive with this format? because if they could, I doubt that the threat of "banning" would deter people from being wise guys and trying to wreck the forum for kicks, I remember a long time ago at the board when people first realised they could use html (before banning was introduced) people were deliberatly messing around with the board and glitching it. |
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I don't think popups and sound is possible at <12Kb |
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heh,. good point,.. I don't think I really understand the format enough to criticise it,.. I think it's just a "afraid of the unknown" thingy |
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flashophobic? =P |
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Yes- gifs are probably the most portable graphics format. |
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I just made 30 sec. animation with fading out letters that said xltronic.com...best quality in SWiSH...it was 2.7Kb... now which is more portable JC? ;) |
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gif is more supported too |
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so what...with browsers today, the people who can't watch flash, mostly don't want to watch flash.. |
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hahaha,.. true... |
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By portable I mean it runs on more systems and w/o the need for plugins- not the file size... You'd call a java program portable, but you would hardly say it was efficient ;) |
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yeah...but animations made in Swish supports flash4...which is built in in windows and mac os |
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haha if only you were a moderator ey..? |
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yeah...i (s)wish *hehe* =P |
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Some people here access this via linux and amigas.... |
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yeah...but once the plugin is downloaded, it's done...besidedes...most people here surf the net all the time, and have probly allready having the plugin... ;) |
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shit...that's just jibberish...i'm messing up with typo's so much today... |
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Ha ha- I thought that last post "shit...that's just jibberish..." was refering to what I just said. I was just about to get some stats on site access to prove my point ;) |
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nah...I'm just trying to get you all to see that with the right restrictions, flash avatar's could be pretty entertaining... |
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flash avatars, good idea! i doubt the webmasters would accept it though, they've probably thought of it already... |
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Yes, I imagine it has already been considered... |
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Please - no Flash. Animations on web pages where you are supposed to be reading (mostly) are very distracting. I have animated gifs set to not loop for this reason. But this is just my opinion. I don't have Flash installed on this computer anyway. |
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Hi Whale, now I'm back online I'll try to get on the file sharing community again. |
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good idea, if you hate the distractiveness just turn off picture downloading.. just a tought: enabling flash avatars for paying members only... makes the 10$ more worthwhile... |
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good deal, let me know if you have any trouble (by email please) |
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yeah...not a bad idea :) |
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im sure there are no technical difficulties... it spices up the board, and phobes likes it too... (extra incomes that is) |
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If you use flash here I'll stop coming here. It makes my computer run like a bag of shit, does the same to my comp at home and I'm sick of the flash adverts on web sites BURNING their image into my brain. SWF is good on some systems but not others. I despise flash. Makes things run like a bag of shit. |
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yeah.. thats a good point... make an "enable flash avatar" button then.... |
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its a little more complicated to use the object insert tag rather than use the img src tag... if that would matter at all |
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its a little more complicated to use the object insert tag rather than use the img src tag... if that would matter at all |
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is it a little more complicated to use the object insert tag rather than use the img src tag...? would that matter at all ? |
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WTF has img-tags to do with any of this?! :o0 |
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over 90% of web users have at least flash player version 5 installed. click for stats. plus, I'm pretty sure the 10% of people who don't are not going to be surfing this message board. of course, the use of flash avatars could be abused with pop-ups and whatnot. |
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My parents always told me that I was special. |
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but what if the flash-avatars had to go through a moderator first? (plus- swf. must be under 12Kb...don't think you can cause that much havoc with that....) |
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Yes, but in a community of nearly 200o, that means almost 200 people here would not be able to use it. Junktion: Avatars going through mods would mean more work for the mods (we do do some "behind the scenes" work, honest!). Imagine you get some people asking to change there avatars a couple of times a day... |
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I just now theres a good solution to this...hmm....how about - make a decent avatar or be banned! ...that would cover it all ;) |
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The idea was for people to put avatars of themselves up, originally :-/ |
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yeah....let's drop the idea.... :) |
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I think it's really good how creative people get with their avatars considering the limitations. |
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We've had no problems with Flash-based avatars over at watmm. Mongoose and Centurix have used Flash for their avatars for ages. Good suggestion I think! |
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Yeah but I look really sketchy and washed up - not a good look. ;~6 <---- something like that |
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