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Pohuaki

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  1. So happy to see your name online.

  2. 2.8.6 has a new bug for bold and/or italic text.One of the fixes was to make GIMP do something reasonable (not crash) when attempting to use an unavailable font. In the process, it looks like they are now treating italic and bold for fonts without explicit italic and bold font files as unavailable fonts, so it doesn't generate bold or italic text for those fonts now. Since most of the comic fonts I use don't have explicit bold and italic definitions, this kills it for me.I can't tell if the text bug that bothered me with 2.8.2 and 2.8.4 is still there (clipping bold and italic text), because the fonts that I tested this with won't generate the bold or italic text using 2.8.6. I doubt it's fixed, since the bug is misclassified and the report is basically buried.So, once again, I've re-installed 2.8.0.
  3. I'd only PM the forum leader if they closed the topic. In most cases, I would PM the staff member who closed the topic and explain the situation to them if I wanted to have the topic re-opened. That would be difficult to do. I used to edit comments from the topic starter into my closing post when the topic starter requested it.
  4. Staff or otherwise, it's still nice to see you again, Pohuaki. o/

  5. Could someone who still has 2.8.0 installed check on a bug for me?The bug occurs in 2.8.2, when using a font that does not have bold characters defined - the ones I've tried are Clementine, CCSez, Chinacat, and Twelve Ton Goldfish. It's mainly noticeable with larger size characters.When using the new text edit tool to make characters in these fonts bold, GIMP makes the characters slightly larger, but it looks like the height limit is still the maximum height for the regular characters in that font, so the characters are clipped at the top. Bolded exclamation points at 64 pixels are a good test - rounded tops if it works, flat tops if it doesn't.I used Clementine quite a bit with 2.8.0, and don't remember this happening.edit: I looked through some files I worked on with 2.8.0, and didn't see the problem, so I uninstalled 2.8.2 and installed 2.8.0 again. The problem went away, so it looks like a new 2.8.2 bug.
  6. GIMP 2.8.2 has been out for a few days now, and I haven't had any new problems with it. It unfortunately doesn't fix the on-canvas text editing problem I had. I haven't used it enough to see if it's any better about hogging all of the system's memory.
  7. I've already checked with with a few people who I thought might know how to contact him now - no luck with that. I might try checking some other LEGO websites to see if I recognize anyone from Castle World who may have kept in touch with him, but that's a long shot.
  8. Brasso can affect the surface a bit; a new brick may end up a bit duller and an old brick may be shinier. It's safe on normal bricks, but has been known to damage softer plastic.
  9. Set interpolation to None when scaling the image.
  10. I'm pretty sure that Craig snuck the Bionicle pic in there himself without any guidance from DC - it's certainly the kind of thing he would have done. I haven't had any contact with him for about eleven and a half years, which is shortly before Bionicle came out and about nine months before this book came out, so I can't be positive.Anyway, I mentioned before that Craig's LEGO website was long gone. I recently remembered that a couple of the early DixieLUG meetings were held at Craig's house. At the risk of derailing this, I checked the DixieLUG folder on Brickshelf to find pictures of MOCs made by a guy who would put a Bionicle drawing in a superhero comic, and here are pics from the January 2000 meeting and the July 2000 meeting. I believe the castle structures and the custom minifigs are Craig's (the penguin and globe are Eric Harshbarger's, I don't recognize anything else).
  11. The four types use different molds (with different part numbers). The shapes are the same, but the points where the colors are injected are different. Many places, like bricklink, don't differentiate between the two green forehead styles, which can look very similar, so it can be difficult to find a double green.Here's an old, poor quality pic I had on brickshelf of the four types. From left to right, red forehead (type 2), double green forehead (type 4), green forehead (type 1), stripe forehead (type 3). The difference shown here between green and double green is the largest I found after looking through several dozen of each, it's normally much less distinct.
  12. It wasn't drawn by a Bionicle artist.It was drawn by Craig Hamilton, aka craigo-lego. Craig was possibly the best known person for painting/modifying minifigs in the late 1990's into 2001 - maybe a bit later, and had how-to web pages on the subject. His MOCs were in the castle theme, and he built Mephisto's Castle, which I think is the tallest minifig scale castle I've ever seen, a ninja themed red dragon fortress, and a lot of things that I don't remember; he also created characters/custom minfigs to go with these structures.Unfortunately, Craig's website disappeared long ago...
  13. How about either of these?http://www.majhost.com/gallery/jherre/temp-pics/a_long_and_wayward_road6.jpg http://www.majhost.com/gallery/jherre/temp-pics/a_long_and_wayward_road8.jpgedit: Or this? http://www.majhost.com/gallery/jherre/temp-pics/a_long_and_wayward_road9.jpg
  14. I may have over-tweaked, and I had trouble with the font. Also, this is a jpg - a png is about twice the filesize. Let me know if you'd still prefer the png, or want any other changes.Edit: Actually, I think I may like this better...I'm not fond of the border, though...Another, with the gray cleaned up
  15. I've done both of those, but it's difficult to work with the small text when I've zoomed out, and I have to tweak the text, fonts, font size, kerning, etc. based on how it looks in its surroundings, so I'm constantly going back and forth, which is a nuisance. I've tried making the canvas size larger than what I'm actually working on and cropping down to a layer's size after I'm done, but I ended up with minor alignment issues. That still looks like my best bet for now, though.
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