New smileys look squarey

Syth

This is something I noticed since the change over to VB3. All the smilies look like they have been clipped down, so they don't look round. I'm thinking this is just me and my firefox, cause if it happened on IE, i think i'd be noticed before hand. It's the same on Konqueror, Mozilla and Epiphany.

If they are supposed to look like that, then change them, they look horrible!

Here is a screen shot of what I see :

Cloud

Syth wrote:

If they are supposed to look like that, then change them, they look horrible!

Goodness, I don't think you have much support for your request. Oh well, it looks like not everyone agrees with you.

smoke.me.a.kipper

bring back the ubb smilies!!

amp

You can do what you want with the rest, but don't touch this little fella :eek:

Sleipnir

I think these new ones are just the most smashing smilies you can get this side of the Sahara.
Everytime I see one.......ooooh.....there I go again.

Jim

My only gripe is that some of them are animated. Its epsically horrible when someone uses an unusual amount of the rollie eye ones. Oh, and the sad smily looks more confused and angry than sad.

Syth

Well is there some way making them look more roundy? They currently look like someone had to clip the images and had to leave out a couple of lines on each side. By increasing each smily by a few pixels in each direction they could be made whole again.

SantaHoe

Yeah I think they look a bit square aswell... but if you've ever seen an x-ray of a smileys skull.. you'll see that they have squared heads anyway, so it's more realistic this way.

Annasopra

I think that they are horrible as well

RicardoSmith

Yeah they are a bit carp in fairness.

Etain

I've kept silent long enough....I don't like the new smilies either.

Mercury_Tilt

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ballooba

Don't like them either.

'Volvo, they're boxy but they're good'

Doesn't cut it with me.

Jim

Personally I hate smilies in general. Any chance of getting rid of them completly?

Mercury_Tilt

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Gordon

If you use the cloud skin they don't look boxy.

Maybe someone would be nice enough to clip the edges from them to be compatible with all skins.

Also, Syth, that isn't a screen shot as it contains transparency (well it does for me at least). Therefore to users of cloud skins they would seem exactly as we see them anyway. Just for future reference.

gandalf

Gah youngsters these days......back in the good old days of the Interweb we had to use morse code to represent our smilies

Victor

smoke-me-a-kipper wrote:

bring back the ubb smilies!!

Yeah. Free the VBB13!

CuLT

I like your thinking Victor.

I took the old smileys from boards before the upgrade and changed the gammy ones on phpbb2 to them on eirtaku.com. Don't particularily bother me, I just think quite a few of them don't represent the "emote" they appear to convey accurately.

Jim

/me pats Eek on head

Yes, the candy is right through here...

Mercury_Tilt

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Beruthiel

amp wrote:

You can do what you want with the rest, but don't touch this little fella :eek:

I could not agree more!
I have even started making comments which require using him at the end of the sentence :eek:
he represents me on so many levels! :eek:

eggbert you say? :eek:
yes....
I like it

Syth

Gordon wrote:

If you use the cloud skin they don't look boxy.
...
Also, Syth, that isn't a screen shot as it contains transparency (well it does for me at least). Therefore to users of cloud skins they would seem exactly as we see them anyway. Just for future reference.

I took a screenshot of a reply page, I then deleted the yellowy background. I reckoned some people would have different backgrounds. So it is an actual screen shot (notice that there's no animation).

However I look at that post using the Cloud skin and it looks fine. No squaryness. I think that could be because of the black background of the Cloud skin. Since it's black you can't see the partial black outline that does fully outline it.

Gordon

Yes, exactly Syth.

How does this look on other skins ?

If it's ok I can do the rest tomorrow or the next day (except for the animated ones, I'm not going to do them)

daveirl

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ballooba

Gordon wrote:

Yes, exactly Syth.

How does this look on other skins ?

If it's ok I can do the rest tomorrow or the next day (except for the animated ones, I'm not going to do them)

Think it would look better with a thin black (edit: circular) ring around it.

It would be better for my feng shui that way.

Gordon

yeah they probably do look better with a black round border but I don't think that;s within my capabilities right now. this is my latest, maybe someone can improve on the borders.



























I'm spent, I really should get some exercise.

Moriarty

Why does the first one only have 1 tooth? Did he lose the rest in an unfortunate photoshop accident that is no longer spoken about in public?

Gordon

I couldn't fit two teeth on him!

Beruthiel

I suspect you just didn't try hard enough Gordie

Syth

Gordon wrote:

yeah they probably do look better with a black round border but I don't think that;s within my capabilities right now. this is my latest, maybe someone can improve on the borders.



























I'm spent, I really should get some exercise.

They look cool. Methinks some yoinking and img tags will be used. Cheers

ecksor

They look good here too.

CuLT

I'm using the "white" theme and they look noice. GJ Gordo!

Dun

They do look good. This fella (Eggbert?) :eek: reminds me of the little green fish 'friend' that one of the sharks brings to the meeting in Finding Nemo.

SantaHoe

Dun wrote:

They do look good. This fella (Eggbert?) :eek: reminds me of the little green fish 'friend' that one of the sharks brings to the meeting in Finding Nemo.

Ok, just because I'm so bored...

Victor

How about this chap? Although it does look like he's been eating chocolate.

Victor

smoke.me.a.kipper

Victor wrote:

:ninja:

Dun

SantaHoe wrote:

Ok, just because I'm so bored...

Class!

simu

I'm not that keen on these new smilies either, they just don't look right. My reactions:
hyperactive overweight positive-minded kid
Jolly nervous wreck
Ketchup fetishist
no reaction
:rolleyes: most annoying smiley ever
It works
:mad: constipated
Annoyed school teacher
:eek: I'll leave this one alone coz people seem to like it
:cool: Jake and the fat man, anyone?
not in the least bit confused looking

My smiley usage has decreased rapidly in recent weeks in fact and when I do use them, I tend to use the old-school :-), :-( etc