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| Which banners from bracket B? |
| Lunar Eclipse |
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52% |
[ 79 ] |
| Mana Phoenix |
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20% |
[ 31 ] |
| Megumi 1 |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Megumi 2 |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Minty 1 |
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1% |
[ 3 ] |
| Minty 2 |
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5% |
[ 9 ] |
| Puddle-chan |
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19% |
[ 29 ] |
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Jazzin'
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I don't like puddle's simply because it's too sharp, it's too complex, the lighting irks me, and there's something about the transparency of the border that bothers me. I like Lunar's because of the simplicity (I really have to admit that I'm a big fan of simplicity) and the background in the middle flows almost seamlessly. It's really aesthetically pleasing. I don't think it would have mattered had I seen it earlier. I still would have voted for it.
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Sir Shrek
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.azupload.com/index.php?s=bebca90c4d6868f6f451bd0cb2d3f6d7
^This links to a site that makes rotating images. Every time a page is refreshed, said image changes without changing URL. This could be a big help in banner stuff, or it could not.  I'm just throwing this out. I think its worth checking out.
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Laogeodritt
Joined: 13 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Sir Shrek wrote: | http://www.azupload.com/index.php?s=bebca90c4d6868f6f451bd0cb2d3f6d7
^This links to a site that makes rotating images. Every time a page is refreshed, said image changes without changing URL. This could be a big help in banner stuff, or it could not. :? I'm just throwing this out. I think its worth checking out. |
This is extremely easy to code in PHP. Don't think we're going to be using a rotating banner though... oh, and for the banner it'd be a little different, since there's the issue of the image-map too.
(Note: Code untested, I just wrote this now. Requires the GD library; some code-hacking could probably change it to return a MIME based on file extension instead of using image functions.)
(This won't work as-is in a forum post, because the forum checks the extension of files in IMG tags. This script should work with HTML, though.)
| Code: | <?php
$images = array (
'image1.png',
'image2.jpg',
'directory/image3.gif'
// etc
);
function random_image($img_array) {
ob_start();
if (is_array($img_array) ) {
$select = mt_rand(0,count($imgs)-1);
if ( !file_exists($imgs[$select]) )
return notfound($imgs[$select]);
header('Content-Type: '. image_type_to_mime_type((getimagesize($img_array[$select]))[2]) );
readfile($imgs[$select]) or die();
ob_end_flush();
return TRUE;
} else
trigger_error('WARNING: Argument passed to random_image() is not an array.',E_USER_WARNING);
}
function notfound($file) {
$n = "\n";
header('HTTP/1.1 404 File Not Found');
echo '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">'.$n.'<html><head><title>404 File Not Found</title></head>'.$n.
'<body><h1>404 File Not Found</h1>'.$n.
"The requested file at {$file} was not found on this server.</body></html>";
trigger_error('WARNING: Could not find file at '.$file,E_USER_WARNING);
ob_end_flush();
return FALSE;
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Flamfas
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Laogeodritt wrote: | | I'd need a URL to it (I have to be able to hotlink, too) or the banner itself to re-host. |
A URL to what? The banner? Someone could easily save it and upload it to tinypic.
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Laogeodritt
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Flaming Tonfas wrote: | | A URL to what? The banner? Someone could easily save it and upload it to tinypic. |
The old banners. I don't have copies handy.
Actually, if you could find them and send them over, I'll host them myself. That way, no risk of it disappearing off the host it's on.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, some of these sure are getting close. Mana's is edging closer to Puddle's and mine seems to be edging closer to Haru's.
Dang, this is going to get interesting indeed since this is pretty much the last day now.
Though I have to admit, I hope to see Mana's catch up, I think it looked nicer on the forum personally than any others in this bracket.
Edit: scratch that, Mana just took second place, way to go!
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Mana Phoenix
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:00 am Post subject: |
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wow, I won by one vote.
Are we really going to lump the final 6 in one last round? That's lame, we should narrow it down to 2, so votes don't get so scattered. 2 rounds of 3 each + 1 final round >>;
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:02 am Post subject: |
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Poor Puddles XD
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:29 am Post subject: |
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pffft
Mana's is nice though =]
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Dub C
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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This round is over now right?
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Mana Phoenix wrote: | wow, I won by one vote.
Are we really going to lump the final 6 in one last round? That's lame, we should narrow it down to 2, so votes don't get so scattered. 2 rounds of 3 each + 1 final round >>; |
I don't see much point in it. We've already seen how most of the banners in the same bracket play out against one another. We need to combine the brackets to see how they'll do against other brackets.
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Mana Phoenix
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Lunar Eclipse wrote: | | Mana Phoenix wrote: | wow, I won by one vote.
Are we really going to lump the final 6 in one last round? That's lame, we should narrow it down to 2, so votes don't get so scattered. 2 rounds of 3 each + 1 final round >>; |
I don't see much point in it. We've already seen how most of the banners in the same bracket play out against one another. We need to combine the brackets to see how they'll do against other brackets. |
So pit one banner from each bracket into a round and make two rounds of 3. I'm just saying, if we have one final round of 6, votes will get really spread out. If it's down to the top 2, people have to pick the best one of the most popular 2, they either vote for one or the other, which saves it from being a "won by one vote" type of thing. Like here, the votes are so spread it's hard to tell which people really liked best. It just feels right to have a true final round in a contest doesn't it? Last time we had like, 6 rounds of voting...
Just sayin'
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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I think it'll be fine this way. I don't want to make everyone wait forever. I know they're already tired from three phases. XD That one had 32, which is quite a bit different from six. I think six is perfectly manageable.
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| Lunar Eclipse wrote: | | I think it'll be fine this way. I don't want to make everyone wait forever. I know they're already tired from three phases. XD |
It's gonna take Namco forever to put the banner up there anyway like always. I don't think one more week would be a big deal. We only have 2 official voting rounds right now. Just feels too short tbh.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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I'll do it, then. But I'm shortening the voting phase to five days.
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