Pohuaki

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Set interpolation to None when scaling the image.

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).

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.

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...

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

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

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.

That depends on the image mode of the brush when you save it.An image with Image->Mode->Grayscale creates a one color brush that uses whatever the FG color is when the brush is used..An image with Image->Mode->RGB creates a brush that uses all of the colors in the brush image, but they are static - the user can not change them when using the brush.

I guess what's been confusing me is that you seem to be able to rotate enlarged pieces cleanly, and I was able to reduce the image that you provided (enlarged and rotated) with far less blur than your smaller rotated piece - why don't you just rotate at a larger size and reduce?Now for a GIMP 2.8 question - I already checked the on-line help, bug logs, and did a google search on this without finding anything...With the new on-canvas text editing, you get this useful tool to assist editing that appears just above and possibly extending to the right of the text area?My problem is that it won't extend outside the window, which is just large enough for the image for large images, so it gets clipped off for text at the top (and sometimes right) of the image, making it useless in those cases. I have a few workarounds, but they're extra work, so I'd rather not use them. Is there a way to get that to appear elsewhere, such as at the bottom or side, of the text area.

video.exe should be in C:Program FilesGIMP 2libgimp2.0plug-ins for GIMP 2.8, and I think it's in C:Program FilesGIMP 2.0libgimp2.0plug-ins for GIMP 2.6. Make sure it's there.video.exe is also a common file name used by various trojans and worms, so you could have a problem related to that, possibly involving some overzealous antivirus software that resulted in the file being deleted. There have been some false positives, but as far as I know that's just been with the portable version.I assume that you downloaded the GIMP installer, instead of building GIMP yourself. If so, try re-installing, preferably with a virus scan on the GIMP folder before and after the install.

That's what I was thinking. Otherwise, I can't see what the problem is, since you have a fairly non-blurred version on the right.Here's a 25% size version of your picture, with a few more heads (rotated to straighten and rotated back). I used Filters->Enhance->Unsharp Mask after rotating and before shrinking on the straight one on the left and the tilted one on the right.

That's the folder for the standard GIMP brushes. You can put new brushes there, but GIMP may delete them when you install a new version of GIMP, and possibly in some other situations. Also, the name of that folder changes in 2.8.if you do Edit->Preferences, you should get a dialog with a list of things on the left and Folders at the bottom of that list. Click the + next to Folders to expand it, and click on Brushes in the newly expanded list. You should now have a list of folders on the right of the dialog, with one of the folders marked as "Writable Folder"; put your new brushes in that folder.

This is suspicious, since they said that they wouldn't announce the new shows before the 26th, and because they said that it was going to be original programming, but the new schedule has put Ghost in the Shell back and added Casshern Sins and Deadman Wonderland.edit: Jason Demarco (vice president of strategic marketing and promotions for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim) has confirmed the new schedule.

Big O is already on Adult SwimNot on the new schedule.The response to "original anime programming" was a reference to Big O being co-owned/payed for by Cartoon Network, and that there was supposed to be another 13 episodes.

No, the blanks are there.May 19 (similar to prior weeks)May 26The blanks are also there for June 2, but that's as far as the schedule goes.I can't think of anything that they weren't showing that they still have the rights to, so they're either undecided in how to rearrange what they had, or they're adding shows that they don't currently have the rights to.

I don't know if it's relevant, but Durarara, Kekkaishi, Ghost in the Shell, Big O, FLCL, and Inuyasha are dropped from Saturday night on the new schedule starting May 26. The replacement shows haven't been announced yet.

I could be wrong but I think he's looking for something similar to thisalthough possibly with more detail.I used the ellipse select tool to make a somewhat flat ellipse under the figure, feathered (I think by 15 here) the ellipse, added a new transparent layer, and filled the selection with black. The shadow should be made more diffuse (larger, more feathered, more transparent) the further the figure is from the ground.You can't get more detail in the floor shadow without drawing or using angled lighting (resulting in an angled shadow).

Yes.They had Tom come on before Bleach started, and had Toonami bumpers and commercials all night.After Bleach, they ran DragonBall Z, Gundam Wing, Tenchi Muyo, Outlaw Star, Big O, Yu Yu Hakusho, Blue Submarine No. 6, Trigun, Astroboy, and Gigantor. The episodes I saw were mostly end-of-major-arc/death-of-major-character episodes, although Astroboy was an origin episode.

Just give credit to the shop if you use it.I wasn't sure if you wanted something that could be placed next to your current banner, or something the same size as your current banner. If you wanted something other than this, let one of us know.edit: Here's a really quick 500x200 version