New avatar

[Michiel]

Well, my first avatar on 5MV, actually. I made it myself. What do you think?

And how do I compress it without losing quality? :?

PS: Who here plays Go? I'm a beginner myself (27 kyu, if you care). If you want a game, I know a good Go server.

[taya17]

You made it yourself? AH! I see we have a 3D animator on board!

3D animation is fun, but frustrating. I used to dabble in it a little when I was younger (say, between the ages of 14 and 17). I remember the first time we tried animating a vase falling off a table we didn't check our views too carefully, and when we rendered it, it turned out that the vase was falling through the table. Much hilarity ensued.

Ah, the good old days.

~~17, who wants to point out that her avatar is self-made too! :wink:

[Michiel]

Heh. Well, this one wasn't as difficult as a falling vase. The two stones just move one unit each frame. I made it with Pov-Ray.

[Vedra]

I think it's neato keen. They actually made a playable version of Go?! I wanna play!!!!!!

(I'm an Andromeda freak,if you hadn't noticed...what do they call us,Droms? lol)

[Michiel]

Hm.. Well, Go is about 4000 years old. Older than chess, even. Visit this server and sign up. http://kiroh.dyndns.org/dragon/

My name is Michiel there. Challenge me to a game.

Do they play it in Andromeda? I've seen Trip play it against the cogenitor once. Never seen it in any other show.

And ehm.. You wanna watch those exclamation points around here.

[Vedra]

I thought Go was something they made up in Andromeda,in fact...lol. Silly me.

[taya17]

No no no... Go's an ancient Japanese game, I believe. The Chinese also play it rather well... I can't remeber the Mandarin name for it, though. It's something-qi... was it "xiang qi" or something similar? Agh, cannot remember. I had friends back in Secondary school who were in the Go club... oh wait, I remember! I think it's called "wei qi". Yeah.

Irrelevant facts.

[Zeke]

Go is a great game at which I suck. Try me at chess sometime, though. I'll paste you across the floor.

17, I don't know if you're right about go, but "xiang qi" is Chinese chess. I have two sets at home which I never get to use because I don't know anyone in town who plays.

[Vedra]

Yeah,yeah,I know. I think I remember reading or hearing about Go before,but I thought it was a different game from Andromeda,because they have that weird board,like Star Trek's 3-D chess.

[Nic Corelli]

Well, to get back on topic... How do you folks like my new avatar? :twisted:

[Alexia]

You are insane nic :mrgreen: That's why we love ya! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

[Michiel]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Try me at chess sometime, though.

I'd like to do that sometime (no worries, I like playing against a superior opponent, which you no doubt are.) But you go finish Season 3 first. 8)

[Draknek]

I used to play Go every once in a while. Not for a long time now, though.

I like the avatar.

[Michiel]

And I like yours. I wish I could make all my hardware work on Linux though... I'm always forced to go back to Windows. :evil:

Anyway, sign in on the server and lets play sometime.

[catalina_marina]

Originally Posted by Michiel

PS: Who here plays Go? I'm a beginner myself (27 kyu, if you care). If you want a game, I know a good Go server.

Deutcherboy, if anyone remembers him, put it on my computer once, but I couldn't figure out a good strategy, or any strategy for that matter, so I threw it off again. :roll:

[Alexia]

Wow. I'm impressed. I have enough trouble with animated gifs!

I was forced to play chess a lot as a child as my dad and brother loved it, but where as they played with strategies i just moved whatever piece i felt like with very little thought. As they had each move planned out well ahead, i invariably lost. A lot. :mrgreen:

As for go...never heard of it

[PointyHairedJedi]

I suck at chess, and probably would at Go if I cared to learn it.

In fact come to think of it I suck at most games. Hmm.

By the way, It is a little large Michiel - I'll have a go at making a smaller version for you later.

[Michiel]

I made a smaller version myself. It's my new avatar now. By lowering the colours and removing every other frame.

The original one

The smaller version

If you can make a better one, please go ahead (no pun intended).

[Alexia]

wow, its a different size...*checks eyes* yup, still one either side of my nose.

Hmmm, PHJ has considerably better eyesight than i do! Although, my contact lenses are drying out in this heat wave (which will probably last till friday so i get all hot at work this week, then rain/snow at the weekend knowning this country), so i blame that!

[Michiel]

Smaller in file-size. As in less KB's. I still have to link to it, though. I doubt I'm ever gonna get it below 34KB.

And for those that are interested: this is an excellent Go tutorial. Requires java.