Time for some fun, Avatar Challange

[Banthai]

Hi all

Spec has kindly set the avatars so we can use Animated GIFs

Which i thought would be cool.... we can now make moving laser based Avatars ..... now it is a bit of a challange as the maximum gif size is 60k or 100 x 100 pixels..... but thats the fun bit keeping it to a size that is not destracting or wastes server bandwith

so i have started by using a rather cheesy one of myself


PS those that think its imposible to have impressive animations in 60k
please check out the attachment .... its a DEMO written in 64k .... i sent it to some friends a while ago and they were convinced that it was just a link thatvideo streamed but thats NOT TRUE ..... at the end of the demo they explain the compression ratios and how much data is compressed


all the best ... KARL

[Admin]

I didn't know you were a demo-scene guy!

Ever check out .kkreiger? Full 3d First person shooter in 96KB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger

*Really* impressive in my book. From what I was reading a while ago, they were aiming for 64KB to meet a party rule but they couldnt get the shadows and physics "engine" to both fit in the alloted space. Funny when you think about the fact a single wall texture in doom3 can be in excess of a MB

[allthatwhichis]

Ahhh... a true demo... Been a while since I seen anything fit into 64K...

[Frank]

wow,so cool
gif is much better, I think!!

[allthatwhichis]

Damn, now you got me thinkin... I have a few "dancing bear mots I could string together... Whats a good gif anomator prog?

That demo's pretty old. One of my teachers showed it in my 3D modling class in college. Blew us away it was only 64k. It'd be a neat trick for it to stream to a computer not hooked to the net...

[Banthai]

The gif animator i used is a shareware ( 30 day free trial )
called "MovieGear4" you can download it from here


http://www.moviegear.com/


it seems quite good and it will optimise the frames to make the unwanted bits transparent and makes the gif file size as small as possible

hope this helps

KARL

[allthatwhichis]

12k... If only popelscan would scan it that fast... Thanks, that program worked well!

[The_Doctor]

Not laser based, but mines something I did for a girl who wanted one for a LiveJournal where the limit is 40 KB.

[MechEng3]

OK got the images saved to a file...do I need another tool to upload into PL? OK Go ahead I need the clue by four here.....

[dave]

Karl, you have created a monster