Take a Chance with the Sigma Mod

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posted on May 4th, 2012, 5:18 pm

looking nice with the ekoset, little advice, there are many images now and they are taking a long time to load probably due to several factors, 1 they are big, 2 they are hosted on msfc (i'm assuming that's either hosted with its owner down under or doesn't have huge bandwidth).

maybe you could host the images on something like photobucket, the page takes around 45 seconds to load (on my fast computer with around 15Mb/s practical bandwidth) :blush:

each time an image higher up the page loads it pushes the entire page down, meaning the page is almost unusable until they are all done.

The Undying Nephalim

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posted on May 16th, 2012, 4:18 am

New music and whatnot:

Myles wrote:looking nice with the ekoset, little advice, there are many images now and they are taking a long time to load probably due to several factors, 1 they are big, 2 they are hosted on msfc (i'm assuming that's either hosted with its owner down under or doesn't have huge bandwidth).

maybe you could host the images on something like photobucket, the page takes around 45 seconds to load (on my fast computer with around 15Mb/s practical bandwidth) each time an image higher up the page loads it pushes the entire page down, meaning the page is almost unusable until they are all done.

I'll host them elsewhere. It would be handy if there was a 'Spoiler' option like on most websites, where it puts images and text in a tab that you can open or close.

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posted on May 22nd, 2012, 12:07 am

Ekoset stuff in game:

[img width=600]http://www.msfc.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=8205&d=1337643941[/img][img width=600]http://www.msfc.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=8206&d=1337643948[/img][img width=600]http://www.msfc.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=8207&d=1337643957[/img][img width=600]http://www.msfc.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=8208&d=1337643966[/img]

The Undying Nephalim

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posted on May 28th, 2012, 7:06 am

Last edited by The Undying Nephalim on May 28th, 2012, 7:10 am, edited 1 time in total.

Myles

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posted on May 28th, 2012, 11:24 am

if you want to avoid slowing down the page with large images then maybe you could host a second copy of each image which is jpg and small (like 200x200) and put url links around that to the full size image, then the main image would only load when people click on the thumbnail. and it would open in a new tab/window.

eg:
[nobbc]
[url=http://][img]http://[/img][/url]
[/nobbc]

The Undying Nephalim

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posted on May 28th, 2012, 8:01 pm

Myles wrote:if you want to avoid slowing down the page with large images then maybe you could host a second copy of each image which is jpg and small (like 200x200) and put url links around that to the full size image, then the main image would only load when people click on the thumbnail. and it would open in a new tab/window.

eg:
[nobbc]
[url=http://][img]http://[/img][/url]
[/nobbc]

That's exactly how my images are set up.

Myles

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posted on May 28th, 2012, 8:30 pm

The Undying Nephalim wrote:That's exactly how my images are set up.

I checked, it's different. you are using the full image link inside the img tags (and for the url target). even though you're using the width attribute, the full image is still being loaded every time.

You'll need to host two copies of the image to what I described, which is a really ghetto workaround. The main copy will be full size (as currently hosted on msfc is fine), the second copy will be reduced to 200 width (height determined by aspect ratio) and can also be hosted on msfc if maj doesn't kill you for hosting near duplicates, you can always host the small copy on imageshack/photobucket.

eg use this code:
[nobbc]

[/nobbc]

to get the following:

I downloaded the image, resized it using paint.net and hosted the thumb on imageshack. i used that imageshack thumb inside the img tags and the msfc link (for the full size image) as the url target.

that way when the page loads, it only downloads the small thumb.

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posted on June 22nd, 2012, 10:48 pm

Background montage that will display behind the main menu of Sigma, should displaying videos behind the main menu ever be implemented in FO.

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posted on April 3rd, 2013, 10:44 am

Some screenshots of the new race I've been working on. I'll probably have a detailed PDF with background information and all of their units so the mystery behind them won't last much longer.