Avatar Gallery Submission Thread

[Something Else]

I wonder what would happen if you were to switch the filenames for Arachne and Arachne_Spiderform around (hopefully it'd show the other one during hero selection?).

Nothing much, those html files only contain the text that goes along with the portrait. I may not be able to rip the images from whatever arcane format they used to store the images in, but I can read html.

For Dominions the easiest way would be to download the data inspector standalone from here

Done, I had no idea that the game was made by such turbo-autists, 3431 units? I've gone through the factions mentioned in your post and stripped the big sprites from them. The only question now becomes which ones are in the gallery already. Don't want to waste time redoing what is already in there. Joined on the 4th of July uploaded 211 and I have 334 in my folder, so there will be a couple of new ones after the dupes are sorted away. Actually my number includes variations, it's very possible that all the good ones are already in there and that I have wasted my time.

How nice. Thank you.

It was nothing.

 

[Something Else]

The link Joined on the 4th of July provided doesn't work anymore, could you upload the current gallery as a zip archive, Infinitron, or list all the files in the directory by filename, as they seem to be still named in the same convention as what I'm working with. There might literally just be a couple of big sprites missing from Dominions 5 that I could then work into proper avatar dimensions and upload them.

 

[Infinitron]

The link Joined on the 4th of July provided doesn't work anymore, could you upload the current gallery as a zip archive, Infinitron, or list all the files in the directory by filename, as they seem to be still named in the same convention as what I'm working with. There might literally just be a couple of big sprites missing from Dominions 5 that I could then work into proper avatar dimensions and upload them.

Uh, are you referring to this? https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/avatar-gallery-submission-thread.5138/page-73#post-4171069

If so:

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[Something Else]

Uh, are you referring to this?

Precisely, just what I wanted, the filenames are based on the unit IDs so now I will know which ones are already in the gallery in the Dominions 4 folder and I won't make any duplicates. Assuming that the IDs carry across over games that is, but seeing how much is in this game that's a safe assumption to make, if there were any changes they must have been additive or of existing sprites. What I have come up with is a supplementary addition to the existing gallery, filling it out with sprites either not used or that were added in the fifth game.

I am however having a hard time matching whatever resampling method Joined used, nearest neighbor produces a too harsh results, while other methods such as bicubic and bilinear produces too soft results. So the choice is between blurry and crunched.

vs

Regardless I will go with NN since it most matches the avatars already present in the gallery, it will look like shit no matter what I do because I only scale them down a couple of pixels to meet the 96 by 96 target and they're like a hundred pixels tall, it's not much of an issue with that head, but in some other cases. Don't care at this point though, but scaling pixel art down by a single pixel is absolutely retarded, cropping them would look just as bad though.

Final payload delivery, iah iah Abraxas, this game was surely made by the demiurge to fuck with me.

Here's how they look:

<- Pineapple Hitler

<- Fuck you

ZIP DL of 184 spanking brand new Dominions avatars, many variants where applicable: http://www.filedropper.com/moredominionsavatars (Add them to the current Dominions gallery, maybe remove the 4 since these are from game number 5)

Dominions is a bullshit game and I will not explain that statement, but it truly is a clusterfuck and whoever is responsible for it had no fucking clue what he was doing.

 

[Infinitron]

I'd rather have separate folders for each game in the series if possible. I take it these games reuse the same portraits for each installment?

BTW I just use Lanczos for everything personally.

 

[The Red Knight]

I'd rather have separate folders for each game in the series if possible. I take it these games reuse the same portraits for each installment?

It's pretty much the same game that gets regularly patched with free new content and after some years it gets a +1 number with some bigger mechanics addition and to give the devs more money (you can even grab map files from the first or second game and open them in the newer ones). The only relevant-here graphical change was from Dom3 to Dom4 when they replaced majority of blurry, low-res old sprites with crispier new ones (and at a glance I'm not seeing any leftover Dom3 sprites in the gallery). You could rename it to "Dominions series" if you're still not convinced, as there's no reason to separate them.

 

[Semiurge]

 

[Something Else]

'd rather have separate folders for each game in the series if possible. I take it these games reuse the same portraits for each installment?

Do as you please, my man, but I couldn't tell you which ones are unique to the fifth game and which ones were already in the fourth. Many of those I just made could belong to either folder, just as the ones you already find in the gallery also belong to the fifth game by virtue of being identical. Hard to separate the two. If you only want one folder per game you could just rename it Dominions 5 since that is what it would be with the addition.

BTW I just use Lanczos for everything personally.

I will give it a go, but for now I'm not making any more avatars for a long good while. There was no way of really automating this process in this case, since different things needed to be done for each image. A lot of work for not that great results.

I'm much happier with the Tarot based ones. Here are the full scans of the cards if anyone is interested: http://www.filedropper.com/1910tarotpamela-a

 

[Something Else]

Regarding the pixel crunch, it doesn't matter what algorithm you use when details are one pixel thick and you change picture dimensions, there is no possibility of things staying the same. Usually that's when you start cropping, but with these sprites it would get terribly awkward, since you'd either cut off their already pixel sparse feet or the top of their heads or weapons.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

50 animated avatars from The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight

 

[Infinitron]

Pathfinder: Kingmaker enemy portraits:

 

[NJClaw]

Pathfinder: Kingmaker enemy portraits:

Funposter now you have a couple more options for your froggy avatar.

 

[Infinitron]

New portraits from Wrath of the Righteous Alpha Stage 2:

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Hey, would any of you kind lads who are far more talented than myself be willing to make up some Silent Hill and Resident Evil avatars? Just a few suggestions: my waifu Jill Valentine, Wesker, Barry, Claire Redfield, Heather Mason, James Sunderland, and Maria. Pyramid Head, Nurses, and Nemesis would also make for some good ones.

I'd appreciate it big time bros.

 

[Ghulgothas]

Hey, would any of you kind lads who are far more talented than myself be willing to make up some Silent Hill and Resident Evil avatars? Just a few suggestions: my waifu Jill Valentine, Wesker, Barry, Claire Redfield, Heather Mason, James Sunderland, and Maria. Pyramid Head, Nurses, and Nemesis would also make for some good ones.

I'd appreciate it big time bros.

https://www.google.com/search?q=res...mg&ei=B8lmX4fkG9b-swWEu4SIDA&bih=724&biw=1602
https://www.google.com/search?q=sil...mg&ei=I8lmX-2DLNOcsQWZtKjQAg&bih=724&biw=1602

Get crackin', a little honest photo-editing work never did any man harm.

Here's one on-the-house.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

far more talented than myself

You are incapable of making 96x96 png files? If you're blind, retarded and have no hands, then I'll be happy to resize some images for you. Otherwise it's a very simple procedure.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

far more talented than myself

You are incapable of making 96x96 png files? If you're blind, retarded and have no hands, then I'll be happy to resize some images for you. Otherwise it's a very simple procedure.

I posted an example of my skills in a different thread and it looked like dog vomit. I'm not super savvy at this stuff. Combine that with the fact I'm on medication to control my alcohol withdrawals and I just suck at everything right now

 

[Ghulgothas]

Alright fine. But I'm doin' 'em my way. And that's the early-to-mid-90's vintage concept art way.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Fair enough, I'd use that Jill avatar. She ain't no Julia Voth but I'll take what I can get!

 

[Semiurge]

SumDrunkGuy

Here's one for you

 

[Sailor Woedica]

I made some new avatars from the fierce Cyberpunk gangs

https://imgur.com/a/jvrsJ6l/zip

 

[Semiurge]

Now that non-game related avatars have been ok'd how about some Hajime Sorayama, once the editing is done?

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[rusty_shackleford]

We need King of the Hill avatars.
I can already hear the furious typing

but Rusty there was no king of the hill game!

And that, my friends, would be Fake News.


Get working on it, Infinitron

 

[Semiurge]

Kronar, son of man from Oglaf would suit Codex.

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[SumDrunkGuy]

This is my ideal avatar. Not that I'm a nazi or anything, I just like the character.