_Castle_ Needs an Avatar!

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I have eleven wonderful avatars he is free to use...

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Where are they?

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They have to load.

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..Is that supposed to blend in with the background?

A great deal of people use the red side too..

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grrr...forgot about the dual board views. I'm not versed enough with avatars to make one that senses which board is viewed and switches

Someone get Alty over here!!

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You rang? (Kinda flattered someone called me)

I'll work up something tonight (woohoo my first unofficial avatar contest )

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I do not think such a thing is possible..

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Hm. Transparent background, maybe? Not sure if that's possible.

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With a moving image..?

Not sure..

Edit: I dunno.. I think I have seen moving gifs with transparent backgrounds before..

I'm suprised no one had suggested this yet... or even better!

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..Is that supposed to blend in with the background?

A great deal of people use the red side too..

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grrr...forgot about the dual board views. I'm not versed enough with avatars to make one that senses which board is viewed and switches

Someone get Alty over here!!

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I do not think such a thing is possible..

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I've seen it...can't remember who it was that did it, somehow they had a script running in their avatar so the bkg would switch depending on if someone was viewing in CoH vs CoV mode.

Beyond my abilities, tho.

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You rang?

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help us Alty Monkey...you're our only hope!

I still like the castle chess peice on the statesman avatar the most, but the assassin strike avatar is cool too.

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..Is that supposed to blend in with the background?

A great deal of people use the red side too..

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grrr...forgot about the dual board views. I'm not versed enough with avatars to make one that senses which board is viewed and switches

Someone get Alty over here!!

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I do not think such a thing is possible..

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I've seen it...can't remember who it was that did it, somehow they had a script running in their avatar so the bkg would switch depending on if someone was viewing in CoH vs CoV mode.

Beyond my abilities, tho.

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That's not necessary, all you have to do is make an aminated gif with a transparent base:

TA-DA!!! (My quick hack at it...)

Well.. it WILL be cool if someone can get it to work on both boards.

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..Is that supposed to blend in with the background?

A great deal of people use the red side too..

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grrr...forgot about the dual board views. I'm not versed enough with avatars to make one that senses which board is viewed and switches

Someone get Alty over here!!

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I do not think such a thing is possible..

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I've seen it...can't remember who it was that did it, somehow they had a script running in their avatar so the bkg would switch depending on if someone was viewing in CoH vs CoV mode.

Beyond my abilities, tho.

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That's not necessary, all you have to do is make an aminated gif with a transparent base:

TA-DA!!!

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Very cool Mantid! Very very cool!

EDIT: Hmm... Now of course there needs to be a tweak to how fast and often it flashes. It needs to be a nice little pause in there, maybe around how long an unslotted Assassin Strike actually takes to recharge?

Now that would be nifty and scary.

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Well.. it WILL be cool if someone can get it to work on both boards.

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>.>

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What we need is an gif animator! Someone with skills, which the tools, and the lack of anything better to do then making an Assassin Strike avatar that works on both boards or almost a dozen dancing catgril avatars...

I wonder where we can find one...

Hmm....

Hmm..

Change the flashing colors to match the respective boards? That might look cool.. make sure the color is snaged from the sidebar.. We have tons of different tints and shades..

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Hmm... Now of course there needs to be a tweak to how fast and often it flashes. It needs to be a nice little pause in there, maybe around how long an unslotted Assassin Strike actually takes to recharge?

Now that would be nifty and scary.

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I can tweak it however, just give me a sec to reload it...

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Hmm..

Change the flashing colors to match the respective boards? That might look cool.. make sure the color is snaged from the sidebar.. We have tons of different tints and shades..

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Ohhh, that would be very cool! And lengthen the time between "Assassing strikes" on the Avatar.. that would work.

But where would we find someoen with the abilities to do this?

Quick test to see how it looks on the boards.

Hmm... it's bright... really bright...

I think you're right. Change the colors so they match the side board section where the Avatars are kept.

I still think it recharges too fast

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..Is that supposed to blend in with the background?

A great deal of people use the red side too..

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grrr...forgot about the dual board views. I'm not versed enough with avatars to make one that senses which board is viewed and switches

Someone get Alty over here!!

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I do not think such a thing is possible..

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I've seen it...can't remember who it was that did it, somehow they had a script running in their avatar so the bkg would switch depending on if someone was viewing in CoH vs CoV mode.

Beyond my abilities, tho.

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The easiest and less time consuming way is to make a transparent background, for a .gif file. Presto clear matches all Sadly though .gif format does not lend itself well to photos.

AWESOME IDEA!

Does anyone have a picture of a castle chess piece on a chess board next to tipped over enemy chess peice.. as if the castle has taken it?

Show assassin strike.. then the picture.. assassin strike.. picture.. then back to a blank space before restarting?

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AWESOME IDEA!

Does anyone have a picture of a castle chess piece on a chess board next to tipped over enemy chess peice.. as if the castle has taken it?

Show assassin strike.. then the picture.. assassin strike.. picture.. then back to a blank space before restarting?

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>^O.O^<

That is an awesome idea!

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That's not necessary, all you have to do is make an aminated gif with a transparent base:

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hmmm...transparent base, you can do that?

Lesson kids: never throw away instruction manuals!!

It can be done...just not now (cause I'm at work) and PLEASE change that avatar Kitty, its headache inducing.

Edit: Whew thank you my brain was doing backflips with the red and blue.

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AWESOME IDEA!

Does anyone have a picture of a castle chess piece on a chess board next to tipped over enemy chess peice.. as if the castle has taken it?

Show assassin strike.. then the picture.. assassin strike.. picture.. then back to a blank space before restarting?

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>^O.O^<

That is an awesome idea!

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How about the words assassin strike just flash on and off over the picture for a few moments before it turns into a blank space?

Not sure exactly how it should be done.. but I think I did indeed hit on something.

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It can be done...just not now (cause I'm at work) and PLEASE change that avatar Kitty, its headache inducing.

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Already done before you posted!

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AWESOME IDEA!

Does anyone have a picture of a castle chess piece on a chess board next to tipped over enemy chess peice.. as if the castle has taken it?

Show assassin strike.. then the picture.. assassin strike.. picture.. then back to a blank space before restarting?

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>^O.O^<

That is an awesome idea!

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Yeah, I was thinking a picture in there would be nice... just need to find one.

Anyhow.. I slowed down the words to showing ever 5 seconds and shorted the time it was up. Also corrected the fact that the words theselves were transparent. Let me know how it can be fixed some more!

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AWESOME IDEA!

Does anyone have a picture of a castle chess piece on a chess board next to tipped over enemy chess peice.. as if the castle has taken it?

Show assassin strike.. then the picture.. assassin strike.. picture.. then back to a blank space before restarting?

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>^O.O^<

That is an awesome idea!

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How about the words assassin strike just flash on and off over the picture for a few moments before it turns into a blank space?

Not sure exactly how it should be done.. but I think I did indeed hit on something.

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Very doable.. just which picture are you talking about?