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Post by Gotolei on Nov 12, 2013 5:23:57 GMT
This is a thing of beauty. (did you want me to smooth the gradients in PS btw?) here's a smoothed one, and one that I had a go putting a circular 25% opacity fill behind I'm assuming you missed the post just above yours.  The ridges add a nice bit of definition if you ask me, though I guess if the smoothed look better fits with the design you're going for than go for it  |
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Post by snipertom on Nov 12, 2013 5:33:19 GMT
This is a thing of beauty. (did you want me to smooth the gradients in PS btw?) The ridges in the G are actually supposed to be there. I dunno whether it was originally artifacts from a poorly-antialiased font or it's just an artistic thing, I just copied it from the very first page  (I'd like to know what software he used for that..) Though if the handle could be fixed up to look like it, that'd be cool. I could probably do it myself but I've been keeping myself busy with other things. ; ) Or I guess once could take the lazy way out and make it actually look like some sort of metal handle, but where's the fun in that. Sorry, didn't see your post! I'll try that one  |
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Post by snipertom on Nov 12, 2013 5:51:21 GMT
The ridges in the G are actually supposed to be there. I dunno whether it was originally artifacts from a poorly-antialiased font or it's just an artistic thing, I just copied it from the very first page (I'd like to know what software he used for that..) Though if the handle could be fixed up to look like it, that'd be cool. I could probably do it myself but I've been keeping myself busy with other things. ; ) Or I guess once could take the lazy way out and make it actually look like some sort of metal handle, but where's the fun in that. Sorry, didn't see your post! I'll try that one cheated a little with this; copied part of the rest of the 'G', made it straighter using transform, copied it to make a large enough area, used the healing tool to get rid of the gradients, duplicated the layer, made one 'vivid light' with a low opacity and the other 'hard light' on a high opacity, added a low opacity 'colour dodge' layer and put a couple of spots of diffuse white on it to simulate a gradient, then used 'unsharp mask' to sharpen it a little. Not sure if it worked out well enough but here it is!  |
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Post by Gotolei on Nov 12, 2013 6:02:32 GMT
Looks pretty good! I'm guessing photoshop can't open xcfs? I know gimp can open psds, but I'm guessing it's a one-way street when it comes to compatibility. One of many reasons why I don't like the big-name products, but maybe I'm just weird like that, heheh. (asking since (Scratch'd for "can't be unseen") [ there's a bit of a dark area where the handle overlaps the "lens,"] but I'm guessing most people wouldn't notice anyway) Also yeah I'd probably end up cheating at it too. Maybe making a 1*something chunk of noise and stretching/duplicating it or something. Heck, might even give it a shot myself to see how spectacularly it goes wrong |
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Post by snipertom on Nov 12, 2013 6:07:10 GMT
Looks pretty good! I'm guessing photoshop can't open xcfs? I know gimp can open psds, but I'm guessing it's a one-way street when it comes to compatibility. One of many reasons why I don't like the big-name products, but maybe I'm just weird like that, heheh. (asking since [ there's a bit of a dark area where the handle meets the "lens,"] (Scratch'd for "can't be unseen") but I'm guessing most people wouldn't notice anyway) Also yeah I'd probably end up cheating at it too. Maybe making a 1*something chunk of noise and stretching/duplicating it or something. Heck, might even give it a shot myself to see how spectacularly it goes wrong A 1d line of noise is the most likely option now that you mention it! PS doesnt' open xcf but I did download GIMP so I'll have a go at those two files you sent! |
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Post by Gotolei on Nov 15, 2013 1:36:34 GMT
It didn't turn out as well as I thought it might. Not that I have the slightest idea what I'm doing but I can't quite get that shining look..maybe the lines are too close to each other or something, I dunno. i.imgur.com/TRbyKul.pngAttachments:
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Post by snipertom on Nov 15, 2013 1:45:29 GMT
It didn't turn out as well as I thought it might. Not that I have the slightest idea what I'm doing but I can't quite get that shining look..maybe the lines are too close to each other or something, I dunno. i.imgur.com/TRbyKul.pngPerhaps another layer with a different line of noise lightening areas (eg colour dodge) as well? |
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Post by Gotolei on Nov 15, 2013 2:27:02 GMT
It didn't turn out as well as I thought it might. Not that I have the slightest idea what I'm doing but I can't quite get that shining look..maybe the lines are too close to each other or something, I dunno. i.imgur.com/TRbyKul.pngPerhaps another layer with a different line of noise lightening areas (eg colour dodge) as well? What I've been going is the using same noise mask for two layers, but one light and one dark color and the mask is offset a couple pixels from one layer to the next. I could try messing with color dodge and such though..haven't before but what can go wrong  aside from everything, I mean |
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Post by louisxiv on Nov 16, 2013 11:55:01 GMT
If anyone is interested in a way to contribute... Check out the links snipertom has added to the wiki, and look for references there we've missed in the Index page. I’ve just added about a dozen 113 refs… |
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Post by louisxiv on Nov 17, 2013 1:10:39 GMT
Just moved the Chapter selectors to the tags column on the left of the page.
I think that looks a lot better, with room to have the chapter titles showing now. I’ll put jump links back in after the next sleep (yawn), and figure out how to suppress the duplicates…
(Maybe I can write ’em off to another include file. Actually… didn’t I start coding that a while back …yawn II… Tomorrow perhaps, before I end up with keyboard prints on my forehead…)
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Post by louisxiv on Nov 21, 2013 23:48:27 GMT
Ah now. Do we have location tags for p1278 frames 3-5? If we don’t, should we have? |
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Post by snipertom on Nov 22, 2013 6:38:05 GMT
Ah now. Do we have location tags for p1278 frames 3-5? If we don’t, should we have? The locations in order: - 1 Labyrinth (not sure if it exists yet but it could, since there are at least 2 other pages set there) - 2 RobotHQ - 3 Bridge - 4-5 Roof (should we have a specific one for that roof? do we only see that that one other time?) - 6-8 SubDorm |
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Post by louisxiv on Nov 22, 2013 22:31:38 GMT
- 3 Bridge - 4-5 Roof (should we have a specific one for that roof? do we only see that that one other time?) Bridge - yes I suppose so, though I'd generally kept that for views of the bridge itself. "steps-down-from-gunnerkrigg-court-to-the-bridge-itself" might be unwieldy as a tag and, essentially, Kat is looking out across the bridge for Antimony. - That roof. Something that features once as a background is probably unimportant, something that is always there in the background is unimportant, but there's a grey area between. I'm not sure if 4 & 5 are the same roof even. I expect it depends on whether one of us feels inspired to find and "roof"-tag a bunch of roofs/rooves. |
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Post by snipertom on Nov 23, 2013 0:09:26 GMT
- 3 Bridge - 4-5 Roof (should we have a specific one for that roof? do we only see that that one other time?) Bridge - yes I suppose so, though I'd generally kept that for views of the bridge itself. "steps-down-from-gunnerkrigg-court-to-the-bridge-itself" might be unwieldy as a tag and, essentially, Kat is looking out across the bridge for Antimony. - That roof. Something that features once as a background is probably unimportant, something that is always there in the background is unimportant, but there's a grey area between. I'm not sure if 4 & 5 are the same roof even. I expect it depends on whether one of us feels inspired to find and "roof"-tag a bunch of roofs/rooves. Quite a few are already tagged, I think. |
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Post by philman on Nov 23, 2013 9:18:31 GMT
There is already a roof tag I believe, although it covers any rooves, not just that one.
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Post by snipertom on Nov 24, 2013 2:21:13 GMT
There is already a roof tag I believe, although it covers any rooves, not just that one. totes! defined back before we realised that "roof" was an important location at all |
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Post by louisxiv on Nov 24, 2013 18:13:53 GMT
There is already a roof tag I believe, although it covers any rooves, not just that one. Whoopsie, so there is. Thanks both. |
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Post by Gotolei on Nov 30, 2013 3:19:44 GMT
Been a few weeks.. poke to get a favicon implemented?  |
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Post by louisxiv on Nov 30, 2013 19:40:51 GMT
Been a few weeks.. poke to get a favicon implemented? :D Kinda waiting for you and snipertom to tell me you’ve finished playing with the image, ’ere ’tiz and shove that raightup yer webpage, Louie. Is this “poke” you speak of such a message, gentlebeings both? |
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Post by snipertom on Nov 30, 2013 20:34:04 GMT
I'm happy with it! |
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Post by Gotolei on Nov 30, 2013 20:41:40 GMT
++ Consensus on the 25% shaded one, from what I recall?  |
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Post by louisxiv on Nov 30, 2013 21:22:30 GMT
Heh. I just went off in a huff and did something myself, straining my artistic sinews to the very limit... Ah well.
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Post by louisxiv on Nov 30, 2013 21:35:53 GMT
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Post by Gotolei on Nov 30, 2013 22:05:22 GMT
Sounds good, though it might be worth adding Tom as well since the comic is where the G originally came from. gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1Edit: awesome, proboards doesn't filter the fonts during parsing =) |
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Post by philman on Nov 30, 2013 23:36:31 GMT
nice now I don't just have a little document image in my bookmarks! |
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Post by louisxiv on Nov 30, 2013 23:53:56 GMT
Sounds good, though it might be worth adding Tom as well since the comic is where the G originally came from. Tip o’ the hat to Mr S included. |
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Post by snipertom on Dec 1, 2013 1:41:59 GMT
Don't worry about attributing me, I really didn't do anything!! And it is lovely having that favicon |
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Post by louisxiv on Dec 7, 2013 0:18:18 GMT
Okay... Annie in the Forest.
I assume we want to tag this in with the main comic, as it is canon material, yes?
The different url means I will have to bodge together a format for an identifying tag indicating which comic an entry come from. Not a big deal, and something I'd been thinking about anyway to merge the Gunnerkrigg and Misfile versions of the generator script.
As I'll be playing with the index.txt format anyway... It seems to me that the present format:
page tag [...] tag #comment<br>subsidiary comment
is a bit inflexible, and has not seen serious rethinking since I started tagging with Misfile, last Christmas, and needed a grep/editor macro friendly format. As there's a python script doing the heavy lifting now a touch more flexibility might be possible, and certainly desirable.
So I'm contemplating a new format along the lines of
comic page type data
Comic: identifies, well, the comic: is this a Gunnerkrigg, AnnieITF or Misfile page - for practical purposes the identifies the url format for links
Page: as now, the page of the comic for identification and linking
Type: at present we have Tag or a Description or a Tom-snark (and e.g. Misfile also flags in-comic identified dates), but having a type field leaves a lot of flexibility, compared with the current positional system, to add new Types when desired – perhaps to separate character / locations / object tags
Data: the actual tag value, comment or whatnot
So each page will likely have several lines of entries rather than one wide line.
present:
1824 ch-45 Annie CherryTree Habitat HabitatSymbol #(slow zoom out from the tree)<br>_Tom: Here she is. There is where Annie was. Right here._
might become:
gun 1824 tag Annie
gun 1824 tag CherryTree
gun 1824 tag Habitat
gun 1824 tag HabitatSymbol
gun 1824 desc (slow zoom out from the tree)
gun 1824 snark Here she is. There is where Annie was. Right here.
Thoughts?
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Post by snipertom on Dec 7, 2013 3:03:07 GMT
Okay... Annie in the Forest. I assume we want to tag this in with the main comic, as it is canon material, yes? The different url means I will have to bodge together a format for an identifying tag indicating which comic an entry come from. Not a big deal, and something I'd been thinking about anyway to merge the Gunnerkrigg and Misfile versions of the generator script. As I'll be playing with the index.txt format anyway... It seems to me that the present format: page tag [...] tag #comment<br>subsidiary comment is a bit inflexible, and has not seen serious rethinking since I started tagging with Misfile, last Christmas, and needed a grep/editor macro friendly format. As there's a python script doing the heavy lifting now a touch more flexibility might be possible, and certainly desirable. So I'm contemplating a new format along the lines of comic page type data Comic: identifies, well, the comic: is this a Gunnerkrigg, AnnieITF or Misfile page - for practical purposes the identifies the url format for links Page: as now, the page of the comic for identification and linking Type: at present we have Tag or a Description or a Tom-snark (and e.g. Misfile also flags in-comic identified dates), but having a type field leaves a lot of flexibility, compared with the current positional system, to add new Types when desired – perhaps to separate character / locations / object tags Data: the actual tag value, comment or whatnot So each page will likely have several lines of entries rather than one wide line. present: 1824 ch-45 Annie CherryTree Habitat HabitatSymbol #(slow zoom out from the tree)<br>_Tom: Here she is. There is where Annie was. Right here._ might become: gun 1824 tag Annie
gun 1824 tag CherryTree
gun 1824 tag Habitat
gun 1824 tag HabitatSymbol
gun 1824 desc (slow zoom out from the tree)
gun 1824 snark Here she is. There is where Annie was. Right here.
Thoughts?
I think the idea to reform the txt file has merit, as things are getting more complex. My thoughts are that separating all the tags onto different lines makes a bit more work of updating each page because you have to preface each line (though honestly you are the person updating the most- I am so sorry  ); alternatives include doing something like the following: gun 1824 chapter:45 tags:Annie,CherryTree,Habitat,HabitatSymbol desc:"(slow zoom out from the tree)" tom:"Here she is. There is where Annie was. Right here."Also, I guess we could put AitF in chronological order for now, ie between fire spike and from the forest she came. I am currently going through github- apologies for not merging earlier  |
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Post by GK Sierra on Dec 7, 2013 3:17:48 GMT
Also, I guess we could put AitF in chronological order for now, ie between fire spike and from the forest she came. I very much like this idea. It would be cool if there were an option to view it chronologically on gunnerkrigg.com, too. |
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); alternatives include doing something like the following:
