Final Fantasy Hacktics

Modding => Spriting => Topic started by: Xifanie on July 28, 2008, 08:27:53 pm

Title: Favicon (Help, spriters!)
Post by: Xifanie on July 28, 2008, 08:27:53 pm
I am searching for someone who could make a favicon for FFH.

What's a favicon?
It's what appears next to the page name for most browsers. Other browsers may not support them at all. It can be made using photoshop.

What are the specs?
256 colors (8bit)
16x16
format .ico

I thought that this is necessary since FFH is pretty much the only site I browse that has no favicon. >_>'
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Post by: IronJustice on July 28, 2008, 09:05:16 pm
How do you fancy these?
http://convertico.com/images/1217293377.4/Eyecon.ico (http://convertico.com/images/1217293377.4/Eyecon.ico)
http://convertico.com/images/1217293237 ... _phpBB.ico (http://convertico.com/images/1217293237.32/logo_phpBB.ico)

BTW it wont let me attach icon files.

I made the colors on these two more simple incase those don't work.
http://convertico.com/images/1217294216.75/Eyecon.ico (http://convertico.com/images/1217294216.75/Eyecon.ico)
http://convertico.com/images/1217294293.77/256.ico (http://convertico.com/images/1217294293.77/256.ico)
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Post by: Xifanie on July 28, 2008, 09:28:14 pm
I prefer the first one by far, but I was looking for something most custom... In fact, I only know what I don't want.
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Post by: CidIII on July 28, 2008, 11:14:49 pm
16 by 16 pixels aint much to work with  8)
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Post by: Tersius on July 29, 2008, 02:17:14 am
I'm no artist, and I sketched these really quick in paint as drafts, but what do you think of something along the lines of these?

The first is a roughly styled FFT HAX.  Might be too many letters for that little space.

The next is FFT with a splattered H in the corner.  Kind of like the logo we have in the banner.

The last is a glowing zodiac stone.  I could do a much better job of the shading using GIMP, but this shows the basic idea of having the stone glimmer like the stones do in the game just before something (usually bad) happens.

If you want I could probably do a combination of these as well, such as replacing the spattered H with a zodiac stone in the corner.  Anyways, just some ideas...
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Post by: Argg0 on July 29, 2008, 03:00:04 am
I believe they can be bigger, it gets rescaled autmatically... I found once on my computer all the ones I had ever visitied... but I can't find it again for some reason.

Some were pretty big (400x400 or so).
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Post by: Cyberblade on July 29, 2008, 09:36:12 am
If they auto-matically get scaled down i can probaly make something nice if not here you go =P
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Post by: Tersius on July 29, 2008, 03:50:19 pm
The sword that's just been put in looks really nice too.  Where did that one come from?
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Post by: Xifanie on July 29, 2008, 05:06:36 pm
Huh... it's just a test. And it's a PSP Knight Sword. Don't know the name, but it's ridiculously broken just like all new items are. :O
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Post by: Zozma on July 29, 2008, 05:12:56 pm
its not just the psp is it? looks like the chaos balde to me, and yes its just a little bit more broken that orlandu.
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Post by: Kuraudo Sutoraifu on July 29, 2008, 06:08:28 pm
I've seen animated ones on websites before, so I made of the animated kind.

Crap.  I can't uplaod a .ico file.  SCREW YOU, INTERWEBS!!!

Maybe I could just emails it to Zodiac.  Would that be okay with you, Zod?
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Post by: orangejulius56 on July 29, 2008, 07:23:06 pm
I spent about 5 minutes making this one, its a gafgarion sprite, 16x16, 256 colors and .ico. He kinda looks squashed but im not very good at this type of thing. I used the program IrfanView, it can convert an image to these specs and save as an .ico.

Also im not sure why, but I cannot post an ico on this board. This is the PNG.
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Post by: Xifanie on July 29, 2008, 07:50:00 pm
I added a few extensions... including .ico so go ahead now you can post it.
Oh, and as Argg0 pointed out, bigger is fine. just make sure width = height and that it looks nice in 16x16.
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Post by: Xifanie on July 29, 2008, 08:07:07 pm
Ok well, this is very wierd, I can't get the .ico attachment to work at all; any other I add are fine, but not .ico.

Go ahead and sent it to me via e-mail if you want.
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Post by: CidIII on July 29, 2008, 08:29:26 pm
I have an animated one I made.
Sent it let me know what you think...

I can make a new animated one if you have an Idea of what you'd like.
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Post by: Sen on July 29, 2008, 08:33:42 pm
I have 1 for the Chat but its size is 26x26 (bigger)
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Post by: Xifanie on July 29, 2008, 08:46:36 pm
lol Sen; still nice though, I plan to replace all the buttons/icons on the forum.

Quote from: "CidIII"I have an animated one I made.
Sent it let me know what you think...

I can make a new animated one if you have an Idea of what you'd like.
I didn't receive anything, I even checked my old e-mail account.
are you sure you sent it to zodiac@ffhacktics.com?

By the way, I thought about it again and just post in .gif.

I can very simply convert it and both .gif and .ico are 256 colors and supports transparency.
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Post by: CidIII on July 29, 2008, 08:50:37 pm
Should have sent now, I saved it in a .ico format. So I would have to convert it into .gif
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Post by: Xifanie on July 29, 2008, 10:18:45 pm
I conveerted your icon to .gif to show, and it gave me inspiration!
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Post by: CidIII on July 29, 2008, 10:20:08 pm
Ahh, that is nice.  :D

Glad I was inspirational!

Here's a good tool for making Animated/Regular favicons!

http://www.favicon.cc/ (http://www.favicon.cc/)

Each square represents a pixel.

 8)
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Post by: Cyberblade on July 29, 2008, 10:26:50 pm
but all the inspriation came from me XD i started the numbers
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Post by: CidIII on July 29, 2008, 10:27:45 pm
Oh, I didn't even see yours I was copying from the Site Banner.
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Post by: Kuraudo Sutoraifu on July 30, 2008, 12:37:39 am
He was copying me! MWAHAHAHAHA!
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Post by: Xifanie on July 30, 2008, 12:59:43 am
Stop copying you copying copier who copies!

And Kuraudo, your icon is nice, but there are two main issues:
- Animation is too slow, you should at least double the frames & speed.
- It took me a while to notice you were painting a H over the T, I'm serious, it was hard to notice... I thought it was just a random trail of blood.
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Post by: IronJustice on July 30, 2008, 01:20:17 am
I like it! Classic appeal
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Post by: Wareya on August 06, 2008, 01:21:08 am
Okay, I decided to make one for the heck of it. Pretty clean, too.

http://www.shokimages.com/files/jn0lyhm ... yh52jj.ico (http://www.shokimages.com/files/jn0lyhm2y2izmzyh52jj.ico)

I freaking hate that I couldn't find a single other place to upload ico's.
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Post by: Sen on August 06, 2008, 06:55:19 am
Thanks Zodiac for using my favicon on the chat section it's an honor :)
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Post by: Xifanie on August 06, 2008, 09:07:43 am
I still don't know what to do as I asked twice everyone on the chat and no one told me which favicon they prefered...

So basically I'm calling for a vote.
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Post by: Kuraudo Sutoraifu on August 06, 2008, 02:06:08 pm
I like Wareya's, but I think the red diagonal in the backround should kust be deleted.
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Post by: Xifanie on August 06, 2008, 03:01:30 pm
I think it's a swordy  :P