New Forum, New Avatar & New Sig'

[Budgie]

I though that as we have a nice new forum then it was time to change my Avatar & signature.
What do you think?

Is the avatar going to get on anyone's nerves?  ;)

[martha focker]

groovy :dance:

[Tailendcharley]

 :clap: :clap:Nope,does'nt get on my nerves,just wish I could do something similar...oh well,back to my trying


New sites cool :dance: :dance:


 :roll: :roll:Smithy :dance: :dance:

[gtomo2]

I though that as we have a nice new forum then it was time to change my Avatar & signature.
What do you think?

Is the avatar going to get on anyone's nerves?  ;)

no looks cool. but think you may have a earth problem wih theo/s front head light as its a bit slow at flashing. ;)  :lol: :lol:

[Budgie]

no looks cool. but think you may have a earth problem wih theo/s front head light as its a bit slow at flashing. ;)  :lol: :lol:

I thought that as well so I gave it a bump and it's working, must be the angle you're look at it from. 

[Budgie]

New sites cool :dance: :dance:


 :roll: :roll:Smithy :dance: :dance:

Cheers Smithy,  :D

The weather site has been running since March and I've spent more time working on that than I've spent under the Landys!
Oh, and the new banner below auto updates every 10 minutes. 

[SimonHarwood]

Is the avatar going to get on anyone's nerves?

I find it really distracting (and hence annoying) when trying to read the contents of posts when it is visible on the screen.

[Budgie]

I can turn down the intensity if that would help Simon?

[SimonHarwood]

Yes, it probably would, thanks. At present it goes from a good pic of your vehicle into one with a white blob in the middle. If you are able to extend the pause between sets of flashes by a little bit then that would probably help too.

[mentalmoshio sophs V8i]

I've always like Ur's budgie , reckon it would be even better if the truck moves along as well. not sure if u could do that theres a red 90 on here what does. 

[Steven]

Very nice Budgie, I like it loads...

[Budgie]

Yes, it probably would, thanks. At present it goes from a good pic of your vehicle into one with a white blob in the middle. If you are able to extend the pause between sets of flashes by a little bit then that would probably help too.

There, I did a little rework on it and it's not quite so "in your face", how's that?  :D

I've always like Ur's budgie , reckon it would be even better if the truck moves along as well. not sure if u could do that theres a red 90 on here what does. 

I could make it move as well if I had a few photos of it in motion, I've used Adobe ImageReady to make this one and it works by altering the same image a little each time to get the motion in the GIF. It's the same a making an animated film really and takes a while to put together.  ;)

[Disco Matt]

I must have a go at making one of those Gifs - do you start with still images or a piece of film footage?

[Budgie]

It's just one image and then I added the "lens flare" effect in Photoshop to it for one set of flashes, save the file and did the same again for the other flashes.
I only used 3 images to make that one and then animated it in ImageReady. It's down to how you arrange the images and set their active time that produces the flash.

If you don't have ImageReady there's a free download called Movies13 that will do the same job.  ;)

[mentalmoshio sophs V8i]

looks even better now  :dance:

[Disco Matt]

It's just one image and then I added the "lens flare" effect in Photoshop to it for one set of flashes, save the file and did the same again for the other flashes.
I only used 3 images to make that one and then animated it in ImageReady. It's down to how you arrange the images and set their active time that produces the flash.

If you don't have ImageReady there's a free download called Movies13 that will do the same job.  ;)

Thanks! I'll have to try to get something suitable to work with when I'm next out. Could it tie two images together (if you took one with lights off and another with them on)?

[Budgie]

It will do Matt, but you'll have to make sure you use a tripod and don't move the vehicle or the camera. Otherwise you could end up with the whole vehicle moving when you switch the lights on.
I can do one for you if you've got a photo.  ;)

[mentalmoshio sophs V8i]

budgie can u write the order in which u make one on movies13 plz 

[Disco Matt]

It will do Matt, but you'll have to make sure you use a tripod and don't move the vehicle or the camera. Otherwise you could end up with the whole vehicle moving when you switch the lights on.
I can do one for you if you've got a photo.  ;)

Yep, have a tripod in the car (keep it in there as I use it for my dashboard cam mounting) so as long as it doesn't rain next time I go somewhere interesting I'll get some photos and have a play.

[Budgie]

budgie can u write the order in which u make one on movies13 plz 

We'll call the photos:
1 - the original
2 - flash on one side (or headlight)
3 - flash on the other side (or roof lights)

If you want something similar to what I've done then you need them arranged in the following order:

1,2,1,2,1,3,1,3,1

I made the first and last visible for 0.3 seconds and the rest 0.1 seconds.

Instead of the strobe effect that mine produces you could go for a normal headlight flash in which case you use the original image, one with the lights slightly 'ON' and the third image with the lights full 'ON'. If you really want the effect then you could do the same to ground in front of the vehicle like this one:



But you'll need to increase the time that each image is visible for to something like 0.2 or 0.3 seconds. This is quite easy to do in a normal editing program as you can use the brush spray tool to produce the light as I've do in the one above.  ;)

[Drift]

Me thinks its dead clever  :D

[diggerdog36]

I like it, always wondered how its done!!!

But 10.7 degrees in the hebrides??? Is that thermometer kept in a warm place!!!

[Budgie]

But 10.7 degrees in the hebrides??? Is that thermometer kept in a warm place!!!

Nope, that's about right at the moment and has been for most of the day - see the Met Office observations for here.  ;)

......or you can go to THIS PAGE on my site and click on the "MesoMap" button to bring up the map and see what it's doing over all of Northern Scotland.  :D

[annabelle]

 :shock:I don't mind what avatar you have, this new look forum is mashing my brain and hurting my eyes! 

[Disco Matt]

But 10.7 degrees in the hebrides??? Is that thermometer kept in a warm place!!!

Nope, that's about right at the moment and has been for most of the day - see the Met Office observations for here.  ;)

......or you can go to THIS PAGE on my site and click on the "MesoMap" button to bring up the map and see what it's doing over all of Northern Scotland.  :D

Can you get those nifty weather display thingies for anywhere else in the UK or is it just the Hebrides?

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

I've already changed my Av and sig, just until I can find anothe abstract one. You could always keep yours as it is or change with your mood!

[Budgie]

Can you get those nifty weather display thingies for anywhere else in the UK or is it just the Hebrides?

Which nifty weather display thingies would that be Matt?  :-k

If it's the Mesomap, the one on my site is setup for my area. You may well have someone running a similar website near you, try HERE and click on Europe or HERE and go "Weather Maps" then "Northwest Europe" to see your local stations.  :D

[Disco Matt]

Can you get those nifty weather display thingies for anywhere else in the UK or is it just the Hebrides?

Which nifty weather display thingies would that be Matt?  :-k

If it's the Mesomap, the one on my site is setup for my area. You may well have someone running a similar website near you, try HERE and click on Europe or HERE and go "Weather Maps" then "Northwest Europe" to see your local stations.  :D

I meant the one in your signature - rather fancied having similar data for my part of the world.

[Budgie]

Oh I see.  :doh:

Mine is produced on my PC by the weather program I use and the data comes from my own weather station, but you can get similar banners from Wunderground. I'm not sure what your closest main town is but you can just type in your nearest at the top of the page and see if they do one for there.
Welshpool is on there and if you scroll down you'll see a section below the weather details that says "Free weather stickers for you home page", go on to there and pick the one you want.  ;)

It'll give you something like this:




Then just copy the HTML code into your signature area.

[Budgie]

I've just seen that the code I used last night didn't work so I had a play and you need to use something like this in you sig' to make it work  ;) :

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[url=http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/03511.html?bannertypeclick=bigwx]
[img]http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/bigwx_both_cond/language/www/global/stations/03511.gif[/img][/url]