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Title: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: QED on October 07, 2006, 01:12:19 AM
has anyone seen these?

http://www.userbars.com/index.php

I just attempted one here:
(http://home.nycap.rr.com/mjhqed/dpuserbar.jpg)

I am not a graphics maniac but I thought it was a start.  Hope nobody minds I used the DP stuff for it.  If anyone wants to make a better one, plz feel free and let me know.

R/
Qed
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Playah on October 07, 2006, 07:13:04 AM
Wow that looks very nice.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Smokey on October 07, 2006, 10:23:05 AM
you need diagonal lines on it.. if you have the .psd i can do it for you.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: QED on October 07, 2006, 01:23:58 PM
I can put them on there....
(http://home.nycap.rr.com/mjhqed/dpuserbar.jpg)

BTW, thx for the kind words.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: QED on October 08, 2006, 04:33:47 PM
HEY SMOKEY.... you think there is a way to get a pic of the automag in the background?  Just searching for more ideas for this thing.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: F3AR on October 08, 2006, 05:46:46 PM
Well you don't wanna over do it.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Smokey on October 08, 2006, 06:30:03 PM
make an all white map, and add a autococker entity into it and then take a screenshot of the gun, then cut out the autococker, if i still had my mapping stuff i would do it.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: bitmate on October 08, 2006, 07:01:00 PM
What about those?
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Smokey on October 08, 2006, 09:47:11 PM
What about those?

second one is right idea, just horrid qualityh
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: bitmate on October 09, 2006, 02:21:58 AM
second one is right idea, just horrid qualityh
You can find that picture somewhere on the homepage...
If you aren't pleased with the quality, go and make your own one. FFS ;)
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: QED on October 09, 2006, 06:28:06 AM
I'll see what I can use.  I don't have the skillz or the time to use the mapping stuff yet. My machine probably would have a heart attack if I did anyhow.  I am starting to be concerned that the text is too small...  it's in progress though.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Smokey on October 09, 2006, 01:55:59 PM
lemme install bsp and such, ill do it for ya.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Smokey on October 09, 2006, 02:22:54 PM
http://dp.arena-zone.com/screens/

all for you =]
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: jitspoe on October 09, 2006, 05:00:55 PM
second one is right idea, just horrid quality(Smokey can't spell)
Like that will matter when it's scaled down to < 20 pixels.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: SmackWaters on October 09, 2006, 05:08:03 PM
now this is what I'm talking about... vm68
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: jitspoe on October 09, 2006, 07:04:11 PM
It works better if you use a different solid color -- something that won't be visible on the gun (especially with the automag) -- like red.  You may also want to shut off overbright so it isn't as washed out.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Smokey on October 09, 2006, 08:23:14 PM
he said automag... duh.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: QED on October 10, 2006, 06:20:09 AM
My BG is blue so the contrast of the automag should work okay.  I've got one more 12 hour shift to do then I will try to get this together.

Thx again Smokey!
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Smokey on October 10, 2006, 11:10:51 AM
the words on the bar are a little hard to read, also


and np  :)
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: QED on October 10, 2006, 03:37:50 PM
Yeah I have to spend some time on there to enlarge the font...  also want to possibly revise what it says.  right now it says "Digital Paint Player".  That should all be remedied over the next few days that I have off (Not tonight though).
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: TinMan on October 10, 2006, 04:30:02 PM
NEEDS MORE COWBELL!!!
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Eiii on October 10, 2006, 07:15:43 PM
(http://www.japanisshinto.com/images/cowbell.gif)

Done.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: toM|vendettA on October 10, 2006, 07:18:31 PM
Took 10 minutes:

(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8043/blackuserbarjh6.png)

(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7992/blueuserbarzu6.png)

(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/1686/reduserbarry8.png)

Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Smokey on October 10, 2006, 07:22:09 PM
tom yours dont have the glossy look so they kinda arnt good.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: toM|vendettA on October 10, 2006, 08:04:52 PM
They are better than your submissio-- oh wait, you didn't make one. Nevermind than. That took 10 minutes, wasnt really an effort, nor a completed picture. I still have to add the 1 pixel border to each and the white gloss.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: coLa on October 10, 2006, 10:19:49 PM
1337n3ss
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Smokey on October 10, 2006, 10:40:54 PM
They are better than your submissio-- oh wait, you didn't make one. Nevermind than. That took 10 minutes, wasnt really an effort, nor a completed picture. I still have to add the 1 pixel border to each and the white gloss.
why waste my time? Plain and simple yours arnt as good.
:(
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: TinMan on October 10, 2006, 10:46:13 PM
...I can't even read the bottom half of the logo on those...you could have spent those 10 minutes thinking of a better design than pinstripes that kill the rest of the image...
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: F3AR on October 10, 2006, 11:06:44 PM
...I can't even read the bottom half of the logo on those...you could have spent those 10 minutes thinking of a better design than pinstripes that kill the rest of the image...

Thats just the way Userbars are, gotta have the stripes.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: TinMan on October 10, 2006, 11:59:17 PM
You can still shadow the logo so that the stripes don't kill it all.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: QED on October 11, 2006, 03:35:06 PM
Wish I could see them...   :(  Maybe imageshack is having head problems atm.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: toM|vendettA on October 11, 2006, 05:45:41 PM
Are DeEZ bettR SMokEY?

(http://i9.tinypic.com/2zgbzg1.png)

(http://i9.tinypic.com/2s0d1c6.png)

(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6481/greenuserbarol1.png)

(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9301/reduserbarak4.png)

(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/4923/yellowuserbartj9.png)
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: QED on October 11, 2006, 06:43:00 PM
Those are pretty cool toM.

The text is still a sticking point for me. 

Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: jitspoe on October 11, 2006, 06:45:51 PM
Try turning antialiasing off for the font and maybe making the font size a little larger.  Is that even a font, or how are you doing that?
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: QED on October 11, 2006, 06:51:39 PM
It's a font called Visitor TTK (from a userbar Tut).  I enlarged the font. I'll look into the anti-aliasing.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: Smokey on October 11, 2006, 06:55:50 PM
Are DeEZ bettR SMokEY?

(http://i9.tinypic.com/2zgbzg1.png)

(http://i9.tinypic.com/2s0d1c6.png)

(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6481/greenuserbarol1.png)

(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9301/reduserbarak4.png)

(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/4923/yellowuserbartj9.png)
nah
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: SmackWaters on October 11, 2006, 06:56:35 PM
no vm68?  :'(
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: jitspoe on October 11, 2006, 08:04:49 PM
Meh...
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: TinMan on October 11, 2006, 08:08:23 PM
I like Jitspoe's the best so far, the centered eye is awesome.
I'd like to be able to see more of the guy though. (In a merry way)
And you still can't read "paintball" under the logo...darn the background!

P.S. Jitspoe, why aren't you in the spell checker dictionary? lol
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: jitspoe on October 11, 2006, 08:22:27 PM
About the only way I can show more is to angle it and/or make it really small.

And I'm not in the dictionary because I don't have write access to it (nor do I know how to modify gspell dictionary files if I did).

Edit: And you don't really need to be able to read the "Paintball 2" because it says it on the right. :)

Edit2: Tried making the left part of it yellow so the "Paintball 2" would stand out a bit more.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: TinMan on October 11, 2006, 09:09:55 PM
ooh...I like yellow.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: toM|vendettA on October 11, 2006, 09:27:14 PM
wow jitspoe just owned QED and myself^2.

those are nice jitspoe. its really hard to fit things into a 19 pixel area, and qed in photoshop on the text options where it says crisp and stuff, put it to "NONE", and size 13 font + a 1 pxl stroke.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: QED on October 12, 2006, 12:03:22 AM
AH HA!!  Thanks toM for that.  Although my text does look better, I have to agree that we were definitely pwned by Jits...  darn you, Jits must be hacking!  hehe.

P.S.  I really like the right to left fade in the Jits userbar
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: QED on October 12, 2006, 01:19:48 AM
Here's another idea...

I also like the page char you have in there btw Jits!
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: jitspoe on October 12, 2006, 04:04:55 AM
I used the Gimp.  It's open-sourced, so it was really easy to code in my hax.
Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: coLa on October 12, 2006, 11:14:39 AM
userbar for what?
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Post by: IronFist on October 12, 2006, 12:16:22 PM
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Title: Re: Digital Paint "userbar"...
Post by: jitspoe on October 12, 2006, 12:27:45 PM
Yeah, I don't really like it, but it's what I had installed on this machine.  It usually does what I need it to do, but figuring out how to get it to do that takes a lot longer than in photoshop/paintshop pro/other editors.