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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?

Hey you know you like the Ring Wraiths

And it's from the game, not the movie

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.

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-

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.

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

try there

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

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.

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

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

martin

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

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.

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

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

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



James

Or you could swipe them from a game, like Loki .

Whops, well some things are done by accident.

(ashamed) yours,
Loki

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

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

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


James

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.

Try the free program XNView. It does a lot.

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

#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 ))

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.

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...

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

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?

come on, you all like the wraiths, ADMIT IT

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