DPCmod: Custom username icons - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

02/18/2007 07:46:23 AM · #26

I was wondering why your page isn't on the DPC comunity projects page. Also I jsut noticed the slideshow mod. I will have to try both of these alter when i get on my pc. Thanks for spending the time to do stuff like this.

sabphoto

Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+

02/18/2007 08:26:45 AM · #27

Originally posted by gloda:

If poeple start to use fancy animated icons I might disable the mod again - I don't want to be completely distracted from the forum texts.

I totally agree actually, animated ones would get very annoying...it was just a question that I probably should not have brought up.

smurfguy

02/18/2007 09:26:38 AM · #28

Kavey - it's true. I thought about this. But it is just a toy, and an optional one at that. That's why I gave them a SuperCool(TM)! =)

Pug-H, the link you sent me was to the image page (//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=470866). I need the link to the actual image (//images.dpchallenge.com/images_portfolio/25355/orig/470866.gif).

Transparency is easy in the Gimp:
1. Right-click and save our little friend to your disk

2. Open the image - it already has transparency, noted by the checkered background.
3. Right click the image, go to Image->Mode->RGB
4. Paint around on him very closely zoomed in. Another trick is to right-click, New View. This way you have a 100% zoomed image to look at as you edit the 1600% zoomed image. Also, right-click, select View, and uncheck "Show layer boundary". I hate that yellow border.
5. After you're done editing, right-click the image and select Image->Mode->Indexed. The default options are ok.
6. Right-click, save as a gif, and upload to DPC to PM me the link.

Cheers,
-Jeff

02/18/2007 09:31:38 AM · #29

Gloda, yours is so cool :D

allright, gonna make one myself :P

Oh, smurfguy, I added the "check new comments" from your site, but how do I uninstall it?

smurfguy

02/18/2007 09:49:18 AM · #30

xion - you had the same link problem as Pug-H - see my post above.

Originally posted by biteme:

Oh, smurfguy, I added the "check new comments" from your site, but how do I uninstall it?

Uninstall with Tools->GreaseMonkey->Manage User Scripts. Select the "new comments" one and click uninstall.

I can make it strip out animation, if it doesn't already. Maybe it would also be more fair to make it a members only thing.

Originally posted by Elvis_L:

I was wondering why your page isn't on the DPC comunity projects page.

I simply haven't asked for the DPCmod page to be on the Community Projects page yet. I don't have time to ask right now. And frankly, since the mods "mess with the site", it just sorta feels like it might be frowned upon. =) I dunno...

Message edited by author 2007-02-18 09:50:15.

02/18/2007 10:14:21 AM · #31

Originally posted by smurfguy:

Uninstall with Tools->GreaseMonkey->Manage User Scripts. Select the "new comments" one and click uninstall.

easy peasy, thank you squeezy :D

(ofcourse a great add, but it annoys me because I always check my new comments at the left side)

Azrifel

Fujifilm X100VI

02/18/2007 10:50:17 AM · #32

<-- Simple icon

Nice mod. :)

To change the colors of the original I just made manual lasso selections, made a new adjustment layer "Hue Saturation", checked "colorize" and played with the sliders. 1 minute of work.

Message edited by author 2007-02-18 10:52:59.

Azrifel

Fujifilm X100VI

02/18/2007 10:54:35 AM · #33

Originally posted by Kavey:

Maybe I'm feeling curmudgeonly but I think it dilutes the SC icons by allowing everyone else to have custom ones as well. To me it's one of the special things that SC get to have a custom icon.

Maybe we should agree that they are the only ones who can have sunglasses? :)

02/18/2007 11:26:38 AM · #34

oh wow! it works immediately!!!!

thanks Smurfguy :D

Elvis_L

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

02/18/2007 11:33:28 AM · #35

it doesn't work for me in Trixie. works great in firefox! thanks again.

Fisher Price Kid-Tough Digital

02/18/2007 11:34:16 AM · #36

only in the forums, or is it gonna be available for the whole site?

(profile-page, comments, etc)

Bugzeye

02/18/2007 11:46:08 AM · #37

I think a feature should be installed on DPC for all members to at very least be able to choose their own shirt color. The SC would still have different hair styles to distinguish the difference.

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

02/18/2007 11:48:30 AM · #38

Originally posted by Kavey:

Maybe I'm feeling curmudgeonly but I think it dilutes the SC icons by allowing everyone else to have custom ones as well. To me it's one of the special things that SC get to have a custom icon.

From the Terms of Service in the Registered Users Agreement:

"5.7 Manipulation. Registered Users may not: (a) use any device, software or routine in any attempt to interfere or disrupt the Website; or (b) take any action that imposes any unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Website or DPChallenge.comâ��s infrastructure."

I strongly suggest you ask permission directly from Langdon FIRST before you distribute this hack to the site.

muckpond

Nikon D200

Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX Diagonal Fisheye for Nikon

02/18/2007 12:13:35 PM · #39

i like the simplicity of the forums now. the profile pic mod was a great add, but the rest of this stuff is soon going to clutter up the forums to the point that they look like every other generic website out there.

that, and _i_ should the only one with devil horns here. :) i EARNED those!

Elvis_L

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

02/18/2007 12:17:59 PM · #40

Originally posted by muckpond:

which is the beauty of them being mods. You only have to see and use what you want to.

smurfguy