May 17, 2011

Yet another top rotation test

This is a debugging thread for me. A new version of the top rotation SWF is below the fold. If it works correctly, then every time you load the page it should display one of three pictures from each of four shows, twelve total.

But it probably won't work correctly for a while, so don't complain if you get errors. Also, don't complain about the white debugging box in the middle.

UPDATE: Actually, it didn't take long to debug, and it works now.


The image choice is straight random with no memory, so it's possible for you to get the same image multiple times in a row, given that there are only 12 choices total right now.

I still haven't made the site logo a button, but that's minor. For now I'm going to go back to working on processing the images. I did a bunch of that last night, and ended up with about 200 ready to go:

28 from Dog Days
40 from Infinite Stratos
17 from Juuden-chan
114 from Rio - Rainbow Gate

But getting them up onto mee.nu is going to require assistance from Pixy, and I don't want to burden him multiple times. So it's not going to happen until everything's ready.

UPDATE: More:

15 from Hayate no Gotoku
34 from Koihime Musou
45 from Rosario to Vampire 2
29 from Shin Koihime Musou

total 322

Resizing and clipping the images is a lot easier and faster now that I don't have to add labels to them.

UPDATE: By the way, the big deal with this version of the flash is that it picks from multiple images, and the images are stored on mee.nu. I wasn't sure what path I would have to use, so I decided to figure it out experimentally, and I got it on the second try.

UPDATE: OK, the logo button is fixed.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Site Stuff at 12:43 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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1 It's amazing the difference a handful of pixels make. The new banner looks very sharp.

Posted by: bkw at May 17, 2011 04:15 PM (34O+x)

2 A lot of the reason is that flash is using anti-aliasing on the fonts. But another reason is that when I was incorporating the Ariel labels into the image, the result was just about the worst case possible for JPG encoding, and so the area of the label had lots of JPG artifacts. This approach doesn't have that problem.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at May 17, 2011 04:28 PM (+rSRq)

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