LotR Avatars

Mishrack · Post by **Mishrack** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:38 am

I am not saying anything bad about it, but Ifind it intriguing that so many people have adopted LotR Avatars...

Come on people, where's the originality?

Fooser · Post by **Fooser** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:51 am

Hey you know you like the Ring Wraiths

And it's from the game, not the movie

Crosis · Post by **Crosis** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:56 am

Hey its hard to find a picture of a halfling, but i found a couple ones that wernt from LOTR. Im not even sure if mines from LOTR, because my friend said he saw the hobbit in my advatar in a LOTRs cartoon at Kmart.

Josefine da Vince · Post by **Josefine da Vince** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:47 am

May be is your Avater from the LotR cartoon, but I guess there aren't so many people their read the cartoons

and I have nothing against cartoon Avaters, but the real ones are kind of boring etc and ifverybody just take them, we have twins or something and they aren't related, that pisses me off...sorry for my language, but I can't think of an other word

Have a great day-

Bumbol Woodstock · Post by **Bumbol Woodstock** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:23 am

crosis where did ya find your halfing avatar? ive been looking for a good one. i think ill have a real good one with shelob... samwise... and frodo.... i doubt it would work... im not very good with computers.

Crosis · Post by **Crosis** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:37 am

http://www.kirith.com/portrait/?category=halfling

try there

Bumbol Woodstock · Post by **Bumbol Woodstock** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 3:47 am

lol thanks for the link... but since i cant figure out how to do this ill stick with this sites avatars

Crosis · Post by **Crosis** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 4:55 am

I'll explain how, goto the site and find one you like, then save to your computer, next goto profile then to the avatar section and click on browse and find it on your pc.

Caranthir the great · Post by **Caranthir the great** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 9:44 pm

I did too, notice the sudden increase of Lotr-avatars.
Wierd.

martin · Post by **martin** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 10:12 pm

can anyone tell me what avatars are here for in general?

martin

James · Post by **James** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 10:15 pm

avaters make the boards look pretty an it passes the time if i do mine

Adano Eles · Post by **Adano Eles** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 10:22 pm

For me it's a way to show how I imagine my character to look like. It somehow adds atmosphere if you walk through Illarion and have an imagination of how the people you see would look like.

However, somehow it seems that some people think they are here to show off their favourite pic of their favourite LotR or whatever character.

Bumbol Woodstock · Post by **Bumbol Woodstock** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 11:20 pm

whats wrong with that? its only a board not a real life thing.

Loki Feuerhaar · Post by **Loki Feuerhaar** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 11:26 pm

We do also have an "RPG-Board" so there is the direct connection to your character.
So if you all chose Frodo, if you play a Halfling(Hobbit) or Gimli if you are a dwarf, or Legolas if you are a elf .... ect.
Well in that case your chars would be assumend to look alike InGame.

By the way, there are many Sites out there that offer you some nice looking Avatars without the pale taste of simply copying from a well-know movie.

Yours,
Loki

James · Post by **James** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 11:31 pm

i think im ok as i feel my avater is a good representation as to what my character would look like

James

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 11:43 pm

Or you could swipe them from a game, like Loki

.

Loki Feuerhaar · Post by **Loki Feuerhaar** » Wed Jan 08, 2003 12:16 am

Whops, well some things are done by accident.

(ashamed) yours,
Loki

martin · Post by **martin** » Wed Jan 08, 2003 8:21 am

James wrote:avaters make the boards look pretty an it passes the time if i do mine

i think, most of them look awful. e.g. because of not using transparent colors as borders, the size, ...
furthermore, they slow down everything.

martin

martin · Post by **martin** » Wed Jan 08, 2003 8:22 am

James wrote:i think im ok as i feel my avater is a good representation as to what my character would look like

your avatar looks like EVERY male elf in illarion.
wow, i am amazed.

martin

James · Post by **James** » Thu Jan 09, 2003 9:01 am

thats abit harsh martin i edited this to the best of my awful graphical ability we all arnt graphical geniuses ya know

James

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Thu Jan 09, 2003 11:12 pm

I think Martin is saying if we can't do graphics, we shouldn't place them everywhere (eg. Korwin...). If you want an avatar that is similiar to Loki's I could get a few. It wouldn't be stealing, I would be advertising Arcanum... One last thing, does anyone know where a free program could be found that would reduce color loss when changing bitmaps to graphics interchange or JPEG file interchange format? All my images with transparent backgrounds always have pink outlines.

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Thu Jan 09, 2003 11:22 pm

Try the free program XNView. It does a lot.

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Thu Jan 09, 2003 11:39 pm

I think that my avatar represents my character (at least it used to...).

James · Post by **James** » Thu Jan 09, 2003 11:54 pm

#me does his martin impression

Astral your avater looks like EVERY male human in illarion.

WOW im amazed.

James

((this was only a little joke so i hope i havent offended you martin

))

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 3:00 pm

I am with Martin.
I don't see a reason to use the avatars and they incredibly slow down the boards for every user, especialy if everyone is allowed to use his own avatar.
I always thought, that everyone has to put the avatar on his own website, but now that I realize that they are uploaded to our server (am I right?), I also realize that we (the team) might pay for them in the form of increased server traffic some time.

Shi'voc · Post by **Shi'voc** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 3:05 pm

there is the possibility to upload avatars...
but all avatars uploaded together have a size of < 350 kb... don't think that will generate that much traffic...
though i also think those custom avatars are unnecessary...

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 6:11 pm

Its not the 350KByte, its the fact, that these 350KByte get loaded over and over.

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:43 am

My LoTR avatar has a good explanation. First of all, i found so many good pictures that i wanted, but i couldn't fit them!

Anywayz, my char is in love with rings. I couldn't find any ring pix that were good, and then i found this one. It also represents human nature and the search for powers beyond our grasp. Quite a mouthful, ey?

Fooser · Post by **Fooser** » Tue Jan 21, 2003 2:05 am

come on, you all like the wraiths, ADMIT IT

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Tue Jan 21, 2003 2:18 am

Since some people have been complaining about my avatar (Cuderon) i have changed it TEMPORARILY until i can find a really good one.