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Topic Started: Feb 6 2008, 06:07 PM (536 Views)
vix
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Run you clever boy and remember...

Is there were webpages on this site, what would make good pages?

Fan Art Gallery?

Cousin Bios?

what else?
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Tofu
I registered, now what?
Maybe a friends list?
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vix
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Run you clever boy and remember...

friends list?
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s0njas0n
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forum ninja

i think, if you can, put all of the pictures from the matching game and put them on a page since people keep asking for them... though you might be able to do that in the database anyway.
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vix
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it's on my list of things to do but i've been slacking since it want to edit them all to remove the backgrounds.
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bloody velvet
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You want the cousins without the background?
Something like this?
Cousin: Harvest

I can put up the rest of them if you want.
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vix
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Run you clever boy and remember...

if it's the pics of the cousins from this link: here

then yeah, i'll love em if ya got em. :)
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bloody velvet
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Yeah, I pulled it from the flash file, I have about 30 so far. I'll post them in a zipped file after I pull the rest.
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bloody velvet
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Here you go. There's 59 total. That's including the King and Queen, and a Katamari ball. Some of the images are a much lower res, it looks like all the cousins that say 'new'. They're all transparent png files, and the zip totals 943 KB. I didn't name them, since I'd have to look up most of the actual names for the cousins, sorry about that.

All the images.
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vix
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Run you clever boy and remember...

i just noticed your the one that sent me the website link. welcome. hate to break it to you though, like the link you sent me, the images don't work either. they don't have a file type associated with them and i can't open them in any photo programs. :(
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vix
Feb 8 2008, 02:51 AM
i just noticed your the one that sent me the website link.  welcome.  hate to break it to you though, like the link you sent me, the images don't work either.  they don't have a file type associated with them and i can't open them in any photo programs.  :(

vix, you need to extract the files (unzip).
rename each image:

image-1 to image-1.png

you can then open it.
heck i will do it for you but dont know where to put it so i will email you the files...
crud! our zip software on these machines wont zip it for me... (edit: stupid lockouts man! we have privileges to unzip but can not create files :glare )

i did it, and am emailing the images.
enjoy.
thanks bloody v! :thumbsup

edit: and i fear your aol address will not allow that much stuff incoming... let me know asap today what you need me to do. i can not zip it here at school sadly... :( OR just rename them from the original zip yourself and party on! :smirk
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s0njas0n
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you can do them as jpg for that matter. some of them need some tweaking and some of them i don't think are from the matching site because at least paula, mu, and nai-nai are very low quality, but it shouldn't be any problem to do a couple of them. for the most part they are done pretty well.
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bloody velvet
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My fault, late night last night. I use Directory Opus as my shell, so I see them as images without the extension. I didn't even notice that when I batch renamed them i forgot to add '.png' to the filenames.

I fixed them and fixed the zip so they're all renamed in it. WinXP can view them in preview if you have the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer installed, even without the extension.
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s0njas0n
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cool, i already did it myself now :P, but good for other people, thanks
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bloody velvet
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Also, they're all the quality of what's in the flash. I just resized them to a bigger size in the flash, which is normally fine, since the're symbols and resize correctly. I didn't notice any were lower quality until about halfway through, but just made those bigger too.

In the zip, images; 11, 15, 17-28, 54, 55, and 59 are all the lower quality type. If you were to resize them down to the original tiny size they display as on the site, they will look like they do in the game. They just look blocky cause they're like 800% of the normal size.

vix: Do you happen to use the AOL browser? I'm wondering if that caused problems with the site. I do use a hell of a lot of css and javascript, I guess I should have mentioned it's built for firefox.
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s0njas0n
Feb 8 2008, 09:24 AM
you can do them as jpg for that matter.

.jpg will then add a white background to it.
.png will retain its blank border (like a gif has). should she want to place it on a different type of background it is best to leave it as a .png file until all layering is completed.
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s0njas0n
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so very true.
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vix
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i use FF and IE to browse the site. i don't use the actual aol program anymore since I have dsl.

i'll have to to try that link in firefox then. thanks! :)

EDIT: still nothing, just a blank screen.
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bloody velvet
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Ok, so I reproduced the 'blank page' effect. I tracked it down to a bug in the way IE renders XHTML pages, so that's fixed. IE still doesn't render the page correctly, but at least it's not blank now.

FF renders fine, I can't get it to display blank, but maybe the fix for IE will fix FF for you.

I think I'm comfortable with exposing the page to the forum, it would help to have more eyes on it so I can track down bugs easier.

Link

My attempt at creating a Beautiful Katamari collection database. It has all the items, just not all the info (yet). Any ideas/comments/bugs feel free to let me know. This is a work in progress that I'd like to release to the community.

Sorry for the thread jack btw.
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vix
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it still doesn't fully work in IE, you only get the picture but it does work in FF now so I was able to look at it.

i love the set up. awesome detail and what not. would be an awesome tool when done.

no worries about hijacking the thread, it's rare i get opinions when i ask a question. :lol

you should definitely make a thread for this in the bk chat forum, them more people might look at it and offer opinions. :)
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bloody velvet
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I went through the main flash and pulled some more images. This one had a few better quality versions of images from the first pack, and some new poses. There's 12 images in this one (and I made sure they had png extensions this tme).

Here's the breakdown of the new images

60 = 17 better version
61 = 2 dif. pose
62 = 47 dif. pose
63 = new, king's head
64 = 6 dif. pose (and dif color pants)
65 = 5 dif. pose
66, 67 = 54 better version and dif. poses
68 = 53 dif. pose
69 = new, katamari ball
70 = 37 dif. pose
71 = new, background "glow" of king's head

cousins2.zip : 282 KB
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vix
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very cool, thanks. :)
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texaskatamari
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Maybe we should just have a color scheme selection. Like Gamespot does.

Just a thought. :P
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