The Danachian Giveaway

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:22 am

You're more than welcome to resize these if you want, Myr, but they'll prolly look awful if you do...

Kitsuneko · Post by **Kitsuneko** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:23 am

Squee! Have I mentioned how much I love Danachian dragon names? So nice and long, and yet still roll right off the tongue, usually. ^_^

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:25 am

I deliberately had Rinkworks create a load of long ones just for this giveaway... and then I had to pick out all the pronouncable ones... whether they roll off the tongue or not prolly depends on your... accent, I suppose? The difference between tom-AY-to and tom-AH-to...

JKatkina · Post by **JKatkina** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:27 am

:3 Thanks, Shiolar. X3 Honestly, I like me my .gifs better than .pngs, because IE still doesn't se .pngs as transparent. 9.9 And it may just be my old monitor, but I can't tell much of a difference betwen .gif and .png! X3

But to each their own. :D Thanks again.

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:31 am

But... compare the wings on the greeeeeeeeeen... the GIF ones look all... not smooth. You'd think 256 colours would be enough for a solid green dragon, wouldn't you?

I suppose I just get used to PNGs, though... I haven't used IE in years, and my connection can support downloading large images, and I have two huuuuuuuge monitors on the largest resolution my graphics card can cope with (not big enough - need a new graphics card), so I really notice the difference between GIF and PNG...

DNS · Post by **DNS** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:34 am

ooh, thanks. That namegen is giving me names i actually like~

JKatkina · Post by **JKatkina** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:35 am

X3 That'd do it, then. I'm on a very old monitor that hates dark colors and really is smaller than I'd like it to be (but beggars can't be choosers I suppose). AND I'm hooked up currently to an also very old and very slow connection, though thankfully no longer dialup. X3 What can ya do. Maybe someday when I get my own computer I'll notice the difference.

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:36 am

It's good, isn't it? Some of my favourite names have come out of that...

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:38 am

From now on, I'll do a GIF and a PNG version of everything...

DNS · Post by **DNS** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:39 am

it isss. and ipersonally like the png's, but then again, i use netscape on a moniter i bought half a year ago, when mine broke. Damn expensive things. -kicks it--lightly-

JKatkina · Post by **JKatkina** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:44 am

Ironically, I don't even use IE. 9.9 I'm a Firefox girl myself. I just... XD Remembering from my Netscape days, I want my pages to look pretty for everyone. And such. yes. X3

Yay!

Myrror · Post by **Myrror** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:44 am

I snagged the silver for a test resizing. I couldn't tell the difference in the shading for resized .png and resized .gif, however, the resized .gif's outer outline got a little choppy.

Otherwise they look ok to me.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/ ... er_800.png
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/ ... er_600.png

May I ask what you have your display set at? ^.^;;; The origional size picture only still scrolls at 1024x768, and it hurts my eyes to go any larger than that. I tried. ^.^;;

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:51 am

Yeah, they look okay resized into PNGs... but with the GIFs you'll either get choppy outlines or bad transparencies...

Sooo... if anybody wants theirs resized down, lemme know and I'll do 'em. Or you can do them yourself, to fit your pages/monitors.

I'm using 1152x864 at the moment. I'd rather be using 1280x1024, but my graphics card is too old to cope with two monitors at that resolution... It can do it, but only if I drop the refresh rate down to 60, but that's slower than the human eye to brain communication, so it flickers... imagine having two monitors both flickering at you! It was making my eyes go all funny, so I had to drop screen resolution...

DNS · Post by **DNS** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:58 am

huge screen pride!

;-; -envy face at jkat- i loved firefox. i used it all the time, right up until it died on me. X.x it doesn't work at my comp at home, and i use netscape at the other house i stay at (where i am now) because it has user accounts that save passwords and such for all my webbies, that i can protect with a whole masterpassword. I've got like, 50 layers of passwording on this computer.
-pets it-

-cries- i want my mozzy back! I did download the whole mozzy package, though. The thing that comes with the web editing software too? it's nice.

Myrror · Post by **Myrror** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:58 am

Well, then..I'll take one of each. ^.^

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:09 pm

Myrror!

Name: Lataiashanath
Colour: Starry
Height: 25'
Length: 75'

Name: Zyvesoasoth
Colour: Black
Height: 21'
Length: 63'

Name: Chadynasulith
Colour: Silver
Height: 22'
Length: 66'

Name: Satonoradeth
Colour: Copper
Height: 18'
Length: 54'

Name: Tarakilyeith
Colour: Purple
Height: 19'
Length: 57'

Name: Dykelytheruth
Colour: Lavender
Height: 17'
Length: 51'

Name: Keranuendyth
Colour: Blue
Height: 12'
Length: 36'

Name: Syriloyeroth
Colour: Green
Height: 14'
Length: 42'

Enjoy, and resize at your leisure.

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:40 pm

I've shaded the trio-wing template... I just have to figure out how I want to give them out, and also figure out some decent sizings for it... the full sized image is huge, being 1075x900 in size, and that's with very little spare space around the edge (3 or 4 pixels?)

The GIF, unresized, is 200k and looks a bit awful... Can't resize it without losing the outlines and/or transparency... the full sized PNG is over 500k, which is obviously excessively large... I resized it down to 500x419, and it's still 200k, but the transparency is still there, although I don't much like the way the outlines fuzzed when I shrank it. The trio-wing always was huge, though...

So... thoughts on preferred sizes, both in dimensions and download?

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:44 pm

Provide the images at maximum size, with the same allowance for people to request resizing or do it themselves? I know I, at least, always like to have the original on hand, no matter how big it is, even if I use a smaller version on my webspace.

DNS · Post by **DNS** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:46 pm

I like the size the Danachians were at, but then, my moniter is huge~

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:50 pm

Sounds okay. I'll provide PNGs and GIFs at full size, and people can resize as they wish... I'll display the GIF on the forums, and link to the PNGs, so people on slow connections don't have to download the half meg PNGs unless they want to.

Now I'll just figure out a nice way of giving them out so there's a decent number out there without me going insane... Maaaaybe... limit it to one dragon of each rare template per person? How's that sound?

DNS · Post by **DNS** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:51 pm

how many rare templates are you doing/what colours do they come in? if there's more than one template and they come in the normal colours, then three is more reasonable, since there'd be a lot to choose from? ^^ but limiting sounds good-- that way everyone gets one.

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:58 pm

There's several templates... I have trio-wings, duo-wings, aquatics, skeletals, featherwings and trio-wing aquatics... I haven't decided on colours yet, though. The normal colours, at minimum.

What I meant was that I was thinking of saying everyone can have one from each template? So, one duo-wing, one trio-wing, one aquatic, and so on... Maybe a draw for trio-winged aquatics, because currently there's only one of those in existance, and they're meant to be special...

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:59 pm

Sounds good to me.

DNS · Post by **DNS** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:03 pm

ooh~ that makes sense. ^^ I like it, i like it muchly.

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:07 pm

I shall colour the trio-wings later today, then, or perhaps tomorrow... been doing this giveaway just about all day, so it's time to relax for a bit, I think...

Carodos · Post by **Carodos** » Sun May 28, 2006 2:06 pm

Can I get another copper? I just can't handle the idea of 13 dragons. Not superstitious at all though. *laughs* And another one of your delightfully amusing bonds. Maybe totemic might I suggest?

Shiolar · Post by **Shiolar** » Sun May 28, 2006 2:22 pm

Sure...

Merc

Name: Tamenesanath
Colour: Copper
Height: 17'
Length: 51'

Rider Name: Istanis
Rider Species: Spider Monkey Totemic
Rider Gender: Male
Rider Description: Short, lanky build, brown hair/fur, black eyes.

DNS · Post by **DNS** » Sun May 28, 2006 4:34 pm

Can i have another lavender, black OR copper, and silver? >.> I love the lavenderr to death. and silvers too, but lavenders are just pretty, and i only have one of them. i thought i had only one purple, but apparently it's the other way around. O__/
ps, i've got skeletal pages for these guys all done and such. It's the actual coding i need to do. X.x

Edit- on second thought, let me get it over and done with. May I request thirteen more Danachians in addition to the three i asked for above, in any colour? And that's all I'm going to ask for this time around, barring one of each special. ^^ Thankyouthankyou and if you don't feel like handing htem over, don't feel like you need to.

Cy · Post by Cy » Sun May 28, 2006 4:57 pm

Yay =D I've wanted some of these for so long!!
Can I get two of each please?

Post by **Dray** » Sun May 28, 2006 7:12 pm

Oh dur. XD Yes, I meant 'starry'. I had just woken up a little while ago so my brain was still in half-awake mode.

Thankies, though! :D