Avatar Gallery Submission Thread

[Jack]

Crooked Bee
Moar Expeditions: Conquistador avatars fresh from the photoshop oven, 44 in total and same size as the existing ones. Plz add.
http://www.filedropper.com/expeditions-conquistador

samples:

 

[Crooked Bee]

Crooked Bee; Wizardry 6, NPCs and monsters from DOS version:

http://www.filedropper.com/wizardry6

Hm, I can't seem to be able to download that. Reupload plz?

Crooked Bee
Moar Expeditions: Conquistador avatars fresh from the photoshop oven, 44 in total and same size as the existing ones. Plz add.
http://www.filedropper.com/expeditions-conquistador

Added.

 

[Jim Cojones]

Crooked Bee; Wizardry 6, NPCs and monsters from DOS version:

http://www.filedropper.com/wizardry6

Hm, I can't seem to be able to download that. Reupload plz?

reaploded to filedropper
additional upload on a different server, just in case

 

[Crooked Bee]

Crooked Bee; Wizardry 6, NPCs and monsters from DOS version:

http://www.filedropper.com/wizardry6

Hm, I can't seem to be able to download that. Reupload plz?

reaploded to filedropper
additional upload on a different server, just in case

Thx, added now.

 

[Random]

 

[dibens]

Hey faggots, what happened to Shadowrun Genesis avatars I gave you? This blurry cropped shit won't stand!!

Reupload, plz http://www.mediafire.com/download/ct6qm32xk0qdnqa/sr.7z

 

[dibens]

THANKS!

 

[CorpseZeb]

Well, cats was good, also those helmeted one was spectacular but bald gentlemen's aren't bad.

Ps. ... voted for lack of custom avatars, because now there is nice uniformity feeling around. All of the RPG' children.

Ps2. ... no to mention about educational aspect!

 

[Severian Silk]

What happened to the Freedom Force avatars? I know I created a bunch of them a long time ago.

 

[Crane]

It turns out that the BloodNet avatars, like the one I'm using, are in the wrong aspect ratio.

Ex. Instead of this :

It should be this :

Ex.2. Instead of this :

It should be this :

I'm a BloodNet veteran, so I can go through the game easily, get the portraits, and remake them, if it's okay. I have an additional question, though: what's the accepted dimention range for avatars? How big should they be? Should it be a square (like 96x96)? Or is rectangular okay?

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Rectangles are fine. 96x wide and 96x high are the minimums for each dimension.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Rock 'N Roll Racing! It has stats and shopping for equipment and isometric view and lots of other stuffies, it's totally a RPG.

Actually I just cropped them out of a picture with all the in-game portraits, kind of shoddy but better than nothing. In two sizes, since I don't know which is more appropriate (both sizes looks good to me):

This one contains smaller portraits, around 96 x 96 size.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/plwiej

edit: 96 is minimum for both dimensions? Oops, some of the smaller portraits won't work, then. Ignore the above link, I'll try to reupload in a few minutes...there. Now they're a bit bigger, but not as big as 125x125. Should be good.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2rq2mb

example:

This one contains them as I initially cropped them out of the pic, a bit bigger at around 125x125.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/500xwy

example:

The original pic, if anyone feels like doing a better job.

 

[SCO]

the bloodnet ones look worse on the that aspect ratio. Just a guess, but that was probably why they were adjusted

 

[Crane]

No, it has to do with the fact that back in the day, we all used CRT monitors which had rectangular pixels, but the games had square pixels. This meant that the footage would be stretched to 4:3, instead of the 16:10 (320x200 source) they were designed in. Most of the time, the developers designed graphics that would compensate for this, like in the case of bloodnet. Some didn't, like Neuromancer. We don't see this today because our monitors use square pixels. Example:

The source footage is 320x200, but here I resized it x2 with a nearest neighbor filter. Note how sculpture of the human body doesn't look aesthetically correct, like the proportions are off. Now see the footage resized to 640x480, to 4:3.

See how it looks correct now? It all has to do with the aspect ratio. Most likely, ghostdog (who I believe made the avatars) wasn't aware of this and thus didn't know to correct the aspect ratio from the 16:10 it runs in. His BloodNet LP was just the 320x200 source footage resized by a factor of 1.5.

 

[SCO]

I do not like it.

ghostdog come here and give a opinion

 

[Kane]

these two pictures look exactly the same and you are probably autistic and need to get that checked @ a doctors

 

[DarkUnderlord]

ITT we learn raw can't tell the difference between two images when it involves people.

 

[Crane]

If people like the portraits in the wrong aspect ratio, I can still add to the options with portraits ghostdog didn't capture.

 

[Kane]

ITT we learn raw can't tell the difference between two images when it involves people.

There aren't any people in the picture.

 

[Kane]

If people like the portraits in the wrong aspect ratio, I can still add to the options with portraits ghostdog didn't capture.

and yes the 'wrong' aspect ratio looks much better

 

[Crane]

It's 'wrong' because the graphics were designed with the CRT stretching in mind. Very few games were designed without that in mind. Neuromancer is one such exception (and the only one I can think of off the top of my head)

An easy way to tell that the graphics were designed to be in 16:10 is that the square UI buttons (46x46) are only square when the aspect ratio is 16:10.

Believe me, I would tell you if i was pulling your leg. Crooked Bee compensated for the incorrect aspect ratio in the introduction of her Gateway LP.

 

[Xor]

I know how the Codex generally feels about JRPGs, but Final Fantasy Tactics is a legitimately good game. I was going to throw together some avatars out of portraits back when I was doing a LP of the insane difficulty patch, but my computer getting stolen pretty much ruined that plan. Anyway, threw these together on a whim:
http://archaicsoft.com/dev/avatars.rar

Featuring all 207 portraits the final fantasy wiki had, which look to be pretty much every portrait in the game. They're cropped to be at least 96px wide, jpg png format.

 

[felipepepe]

Why not in .png, to keep the transparency instead of that black background?

 

[Xor]

Because jpg is the default image format in irfanview when I batch resized the images and transparency didn't even occur to me. Fixing now.

 

[Xor]

OK, try this again. 96x144px, png format with transparency. Updated the archive in my earlier post, and here are the same avatars horizontally flipped so they look right instead of left. Up to you which version you like better:
http://archaicsoft.com/dev/avatarsFlipped.rar

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