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Quote:Just to show two examples for me. Its been an incredible improvement over anything I was able to do before. This is what I started tonight, and while its really rough and bad in a lot of ways i feel WAY more confident with my lines now when I'm using the tablet.Originally Posted by Camille Thompson
No problem! That is exactly how I felt when a friend recommended it to me. I was complaining about my lines in photoshop and she told me Sai fixes that for you so I tried it and fell in love. The fact that it can open and save psd files is also amazing. It's drawing/painting tools are great too but it can't do any text so that took some getting used to for things like the comics I do.
Just did tonight, still a WIP:
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If you're specifically trying to get the Keep Em Separated badge you can disable the towers and it makes splitting up less of an issue.
When I went for this badge on the final run for the Master of Badges (we did four runs total in a row), we had four teams of 6 rather then three teams of 8. Team 1 and 2 went to fight Siege and Team 3 and 4 went to fight Nightstar for the final phase.
As long as the teams are set up fairly balanced and you let people know ahead of time its not that hard to do. Just make sure you disable the towers.
Also something I do thats contrary to what most people do is I assign all scrappers in the league regardless of team to handle adds. So as long as each team has 1 or 2 scrappers everyone gets iXP from the adds and it keeps them off everyone else while fighting the AVs. Worked fine as well when fighting them at their spawn points. If you're short scrappers send a brute or two to fill. -
@Camille- Re SAI
Thank you so much for demoing this application! I was struggling to get good lines in Photoshop, you're three videos were actually quite helpful, and SAI is IMMENSELY helpful. I'm actually going to be buying the full version this weekend.
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Quote:Thats fine, as long as you're aware that it is potentially permanent. So I suggest backing up the pages and images if you wish to have access to them in the future.Originally Posted by g_masque
Excellent, thanks - I'll tweak the pages as needed. Due to a rather convoluted set of events I lost my primary COX account, and figured I may as well go with a clean break on this.
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Quote:Full deletions can only be done by sysops. So you'll just want to add:Originally Posted by g_masque
Hey Ransim, is it possible to delete pages at all or am I just being blind and missing the option to do so?
...and I've just realised how suspicious this looks coming from an entirely new forum account, haha.
[[Category: Deletion Request]]
To the page/images/category etc you want to have deleted.
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Quote:I wouldn't actually recommend that version of the bamboo. Its tiny and won't really give you much working space especially with a larger wide screen monitor. The smaller bamboos are designed more for doing signatures and text based interactions.Originally Posted by PsiBug
Love the composition, Muse!
I bought my first tablet through newegg.com. I think if you ask around, you'll hear good things about them. Here's a link for the bamboo if you are thinking of starting with that model: ($69 and free shipping)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16823100056
And you can sometimes find them in the $40 range with free shipping at amazon.com (possibly new, used or refurbished so read the fine print!)
and PS: appreciated the cool arty nurturing messages from everyone regarding collabs and communication etc.
What you actually want is the same entry level tablet I just bought myself, the Bamboo Fun which is actually cheaper on Amazon (170 versus 200 on newegg):
http://www.amazon.com/Wacom-CTH661-B...2501064&sr=8-3
Its just big enough to be okay with most wide screen monitors and its a good entry level price range. Plus it has more sensitivity. That small one is only 512 versus 1024 for the larger Fun. ^_^ -
Quote:>_>Originally Posted by PsiBug
And a warwolf to keep the ball rolling :
I want a print of that for my other half!
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Quote:I actually waffled a bit on the torso area. I was trying to decide if any of the secondary color would show based on the reference provided and the picture's angle. So I updated it to add that area.Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Nicely done colors Ransim. I think I like the dark ringed eye slits you put in your mask better than mine.
The one thing I would point out on your coloring is her torso should be two-toned (three if you
count the F chest emblem) not all the same color. Any tips or ideas on mine?
Couldn't you just dial up the brightness in whichever app you are using if you think it came out too dark?
I actually hadn't seen your rendition when I finally had chance to try coloring it. I went with the darker rings around the eyes and the inner highlighting because I was attempting to replicate the goggles in the reference which stand out from the face. The flat lines and the highlighting around the eye you used make them almost seem even or sunken in to the face instead.
Though I'm not even sure I managed a goggle effect either. You did overall manage much more depth and texture.
I also actually lightened it up at one point and forgot to edit the text. I'm still really learning shadows and highlights, the light cage you posted actually has helped a lot.
Here are the three versions I have on Flickr.
First:
Second:
Most Recent:
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I'd like to enter my scrapper, Azure Tracer.
VirtueVerse Profile
Screenshot/reference
She definitely has the anime look with the blue hair and hyper stylized outfit, never mind the laser sword. -
I'm game!
Introduce your character(s) for me: Azure Tracer.
Azure is probably one of my more fun characters, I went a bit overboard with her background (creating an entire dimension with history and species) but thoroughly enjoy playing her. She also has a fun costume that is actually quite heroic considering most of my characters.
In Game Description:
Quote:VirtueVerse Page (has all of the background detail I mentioned)Everyone's favorite laser sword wielding, socialist hawt chick that kicks butt in booty shorts when she's not modeling. Actually no favorite is wrong, people really dislike her. But that's what happens when you're genetically engineered to be better then your ineffective and wasteful ancestor species. After all its not Azure's fault sapiens don't like to hear the truth.
Show us a few in-game screenshots of your character(s):
Profile Picture
Battling the Rikti in Talos
Taking down an Arachnos Drone
Comparing weapons of choice in Pocket D
Escorting Fusionette and Arbiter Sands
Defending Peregrine with Spike from Zombies
Hanging out with new team mates
Art reference
Now, if you have any previous art of them, show us that too!:
Azure Tracer by cgron
Azure Tracer by Racoon-eyes
Any final words?:
Azure is most often eating when she's not running around, skittles, hot dogs, hamburgers, donuts, pretty much anything bad for you and in droves. She's also incredibly acrobatic, and enjoy running, leaping across buildings and generally anything but just normal walking. ADHD is how a lot of people describe her because she's constantly looking for something to do.
And definitely if you have time check out her VirtueVerse page, I had a lot of fun building the backstory for her and her species out. -
Been busy but here is a go I made at coloring the Ferreter piece:
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Quote:Or they are people like my mother, who is convinced her computer is being hacked every time it tries to update and her friend (at the diner) told her she had to turn off all those evil updates, she read it in an email from a friend of a friend of a friend afterall.Originally Posted by NobleFox
People don't update to SP3 because SP2 is easily pirated. And that's that. The people who "won't" update come up with all sorts of fake reasons, but the only one is that they can't easily do so.
People will spend hundreds of dollars on video games they play for 8 hours and never touch again, ever, but these same people feel that since Microsoft is "evil" they don't have to pay for that.
And yes, if you stole the OS, everyone else very much does have the right to be "up on a high horse" about it. Microsoft's bent over backwards to let people but their OS legally. If you plead enough poverty, they'll let you pay in monthly installments of as little as $9.95 a month, it reactivating each month you actually pay. You pay more than that for CoH.
/Stealth updates when visiting
//Scary enough its not even just an age thing I know younger people who do the same thing. The chain email said so after all. -
Couple videos from PAX:
http://www.yfrog.com/ny5pez - Incarnate Customization
http://www.yfrog.com/nmvx7z - Judgement power I could watch all day
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Ran a Renault Saturday.
Delayed starting because we were killing zombies in Shark (WOO Four badges!).
Had to wait 18 minutes for the Banner event to do the first hunt in Nerva. Took the time to switch my laundry and grab a snack and stretch.
Is it annoying? Yeah
Will the world end? No
Thanks guys for running the event over the weekend, was nice to snag the badges on my new guys. And if you run into this just run the event or take a chance to get up, stretch and grab a drink/snack. Renault is incredibly short and you can easily make the time back up.
Not sure about Manti, I'm allergic to hero side Task Forces, they make me fall asleep.
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Quote:Jack?Originally Posted by PowerLeveler
It's me. I did this.
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Quote:I'll admit it. I laughed.
"We were looking good to last several comic book life-death-resurrection cycles, but along came Going Rogue and threw our projections out of whack."
Also for good measure, I blame Statesman. -
Quote:And for those of us following the announcements area via RSS feed. Please continue to post relevant information there.Originally Posted by Capa_Devans
Can we please start having announcements in the Annoucement section? I really have zero interest in a nine-paragraph piece of fluff. Especially considering how awful the font is.
Some of us consider the release time for i20 important.
Man whats with the crying moar in this thread? Is it ED all over again and I missed it?
People cry the devs don't post more/give us more information then cry when the devs do exactly what they wanted. -
The best part about the line was when the enforcers showed up for line games and to give out goodies. Someone near us yelled out the character name ArachnObama, I don't even remember the context but we were laughing about it till we went in.
The meet and greet itself was a blast, I know I personally had fun talking to you guys and poking around on the machines connected to Beta to oooh and aaah over the new Incarnate slots and their customization. Also had fun being able to prod you guys with random questions, like why Statesman isn't in the final mission for Tin Mage. I've been sharing that bit of unofficial history with people.
Briefly, basically there was originally meant to be a cut scene that showed States basically in Praetoria alone and being beaten by Cole. But due to time constraints it never made it in. It was a fun conversation with Posi and a unique insight into the story I wouldn't have known otherwise. I always just assume States was being a jerk because of his worry about tapping the wells power to much. Makes more sense overall that he'd have charged ahead and got beaten.
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Quote:First I will say if you haven't edited your pages since October of last year your account may not exist anymore, this is most likely why you couldn't log in. The whole site was migrated to a new server last year as is mentioned in the OP of this thread, accounts were not migrated only content pages. Feel free to recreate your account with the same username. Your user page and content should still be fine. I'd also read over the OP as it goes into some of the new features on the site.Originally Posted by mousedroid
Sorry if this has been addressed, I haven't updated my VV page in forever. I was going to make some changes to it today and when I tried to log in, I couldn't. It gave me an option to make a new account, but said I needed to have cookies enabled to be able to log in.
I'm fairly certain I have cookies enabled on this computer, so I'm not sure what the problem is. If anyone else has had this issue, please let me know how you resolved it. I'm on Windows XP on this computer if that means anything.
Thanks!
Secondly the message "You must have cookies enabled to log in to Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe." appears for everyone. Its just a friendly reminder not an actual error warning. So long as you can log in once you've created your account and you see your username in the top right you're good to go. -
Looking for some more people to participate in a conversation about how the global server merge might impact VirtueVerse and UnionVerse wikis.
This is not a discussion about merging content or about IC impacts of the global server merge. Its instead a conversation about some technical issues or desired items that the server merge might make necessary.
Such as a shared user database, easy cross wiki linking (which already exists but has not been announced) and content sharing for things like images. -
Looking for some more people to participate in a conversation about how the global server merge might impact VirtueVerse and UnionVerse wikis.
This is not a discussion about merging content or about IC impacts of the global server merge. Its instead a conversation about some technical issues or desired items that the server merge might make necessary.
Such as a shared user database, easy cross wiki linking (which already exists but has not been announced) and content sharing for things like images.
Thanks guys! I'd love to see some feedback from Union users. We also have a global channel now for Virtue Verse that you'll be welcome to join once the merge happens. -
Maintenance and upgrade complete!
Report any issues you encounter. -
Maintenance and upgrade complete!
Report any issues you encounter. -
Oh hey look I actually did have time!
UnionVerse is currently locked for maintenance. Upgrading MySQL tonight. Should be done around 0300 EST. -
Oh hey look I actually did have time!
VirtueVerse is currently locked for maintenance. Upgrading MySQL tonight. Should be done around 0300 EST.