Let's Make Smilies!

[Buster's Uncle]

Thanks buddy.


Okay - that's got everything back in order.  The reply page lineup is back, and my Poly adventure is yielding results for AC2 already.

That's not a real, whatyoucallit, complete set of the usual smilie suspects - I could Christmas a few of our own by request...

[Buster's Uncle]

I spent some time this morning fiddling the display order in the zoo.  I'd always just dumped in there in order of the dumping, though I'd arranged two lines to feature my own designs together.

So, it struck me that the zoo functions better/more efficiently/more user-friendly if the lines in the display pack tighter, less vertical space taken so you have to scroll down less.  So I eyeballed which smilies were tallest on their lines, moving those down.

Hit [more] on the Replay page and see.  The zoo now needs way less scrolling.

It is good to attend to these details from time to time...

[Buster's Uncle]

I also spotted that was in there twice, maybe from when I fixed it up a very long time ago.
I believe Geo noticed, but I also added  to the zoo days ago.  Enjoy the hovertext.

Zoo is taking up way less vertical now.  You're welcome.

[Geo]

I most definitely noticed BELal!

[Buster's Uncle]

Gentlemen, and more gentlemen, I been all up in it, and I give you an old request. 

I found the smilie I modified this from a real vertical space hog, at 52 pixels high - I got it down to 33.  It looks great in the zoo between popcorn and pics!


You're welcome.

[Buster's Uncle]

Hmm.  Dunno why I didn't do this 6.5 years ago when sisko installed the BE smilies, but I have now replaced with ...

MUCH better.

[Buster's Uncle]

 

^You'll all have noticed the great huge thing at the bottom of the zoo^.  Cute, but a champion landhog.  Just as well be a show on Cartoon Network.  A bad show.

Well, I've jiggered it down from 224x103 to 223x69 - and I don't think it's taken a big quality hit.  I also shaved 2.3k off the filesize, always a good thing.

<-Me

[Buster's Uncle]

Trying something - let's see if this works.



Ah.  Able to save the file, embedded here.

[Geo]

Oh thy Hydra!


Nice work.

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh, I didn't do that.  Just was considering altering it.

[Buster's Uncle]

$#@!

Over an hour of work to a GIMP crash.

[Buster's Uncle]

I been busy.

105 frames, I count 43 seconds - all to make the Poly old-timers laugh.



Gentlemen, I present the Nine Heads of Ming...

[Geo]

Did he reaaly have nine lives? 

[Buster's Uncle]

He had some people over, there was drinking, it was a paahhtay.  Some guest -eight or nine, I think- discovered Ming's computer logged on to Poly - and posted filth as him.

It's a really notorious Poly OT incident; Markos banned Ming for a couple weeks, or something like that...

[Buster's Uncle]

Slight upgrade w/ more hydra head-bobbing...