Wednesday, November 21, 2007

This Post is Every Creature Type at All Times


So I've been reading articles on the MTG website and came across this one about changelings. It's an interesting read on it's development as a gameplay mechanic. I still think they're ugly as hell though. =P
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9 comments:

Black Crow said...

I have one of those. The artwork on mine is better. Yay for me!

November 21, 2007 at 4:44 PM
defmoose said...

can anyone inform me as to how to fix the pictures so they don't look like 10 shits? By that I mean how can I make it fit within the table without being cutoff like Steve's car pics were? I think it would help if everyone had this great knowledge.

November 21, 2007 at 4:49 PM
defmoose said...

OMG! I just realized that the changeling in the pic that I posted has a leafy penis on his head! He must be near a treefolks crotch or something!

November 21, 2007 at 4:51 PM
Cyrusse said...

that thing makes our cat not look like an inbred genetic freak. webbed tree hands.. what is this world coming to?

Also, I'm interested to see what other posts end up with the label "gollum-looking-mother-fuckers"

November 21, 2007 at 4:52 PM
Lorigga said...

Uhhh, I've been downloading images, resizing them in my favorite image editor (fireworks or GIMP) and rescale the image so that the width is at least 400px.

I then upload the original as well as the resized image into my webspace at dreamnebula.com.

I then just link to the img with the thumbnail.

I guess that would be the hard way...

I't would be nice if there was a "scale" setting for the img tag in HTML...

I've got my little system going, if anything I'll get to it when I get home. I don't mind the occasional image/embedded player pruning =)

November 21, 2007 at 4:57 PM
Black Crow said...

ya Id like to know the html code to resize, its something simple like adding "small" in the href. Its been a quick sec since Ive fucked with html....

November 21, 2007 at 10:24 PM
Lorigga said...

small refers to font size. Here's the official W3C document detailing img properties.

Unfortunately there is no easy resize property. You can specify the height and width of an image, but for that you need to know the height to width ratio in order to keep the image proportional.

One possible fix would be to create a CSS file which specifies image sizes on the front page. That's just a little more involved. I'll look into that first chance I get!

November 21, 2007 at 11:37 PM
Black Crow said...

damn I thought there was an easier way. I trust you though man, you would know much more about it than me. Let us know what you find.

November 22, 2007 at 9:37 AM
Lorigga said...

Well, there is somewhat of an easier way. The whole, resizing and uploading part is a personal preference because I like linking resized images to their originals.

At the end of the day, if you can get the images actual height and width, all you need do is compute this little formula:

h1 = Images NEW height
w1 = 400
h2 = Images original height
w2 = Images original width

then solve:
w2 = w1 X (h1/h2)

Then you can set the img like..

img src="URL" width="400" height="h1"

I omitted the brackets because the comments would interpret it as an actual img tag.

So now the only question becomes, how do I get the height. Lukily, if you get an image from google images, the width and height are specified as:
ex.
333 x 500
w h

333 is the width, 500 is the height

then you can just link to the image how you normally would with the image tag, and specify the width and height.

otherwise, you can download the image, open it in an editor or anything that will tell you the image width and height...and just run the math so you can maintain proportions.

few, it's all a lot easier than it sounds.

so you're right, it's easier....Its just that in web pages you don't normally do this...see, usually an image rescaled in an actual editor will look a lot better than just the basic HTML resizing, and on top of that, if you have a physical thumbnail version of an image it downloads a LOT faster then when your browser downloads the image and resizes it for the user....

For that reason I tend to not even think of this as an option...but for our blog, it certainly will work just fine.

Also, if you want, you can right click on most images and say, "view image", this will bring up just the image. You can then put link tags around the image tag to do exactly what I do.

a href="IMG-URL" (end brack) img src="IMG-URL" height="h1" width="400" (end bracket) /a

I'm sure you know where the brackets go.

Just ask if you all have any other questions.

Like I said, first chance I get I'll figure out a way to streamline this.

November 22, 2007 at 10:14 AM

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