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David T
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The enhancement pack is fileblocks, get OS info and EAX IIRC.

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Congrats Las6, that banner was my fave so I'm glad it won . Well done to everyone else who placed too (there's a helluva lot of them!).


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Well done to the winners. Now Las6 can tell me how he makes those patterns!

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Good work everyone!
Congrats Las6

(I was kinda partial to #18 in the winners list)



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What in blazes? 6th???

Well, all I can say is I wish I could see the faces on the people who will come to the forum and read that for the first time

Looks like I get Terrain Plus out of it, thanks Rich oh and Exeat


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Congrats to the winners!

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Congrats everyone,

"One question that I have reserved asking until the votes were complete. But Is there going to be text added to las 6's win that says Forum? Or will the Banner that says "The Game Creators" on the left have the word Forum added to it? I loved all of Las 6's entries but I think that somewhere on the page it should say Forum or Apollo. I guess it doesn't matter too much; If people don't know there in the forum then it's probably someone who shouldn't be posting anyway!


What's even more amazing is that some of the top 5 had multiple entries, and they sill managed to get enough votes to place. I had a hard time trying to decide between many of Las 6's, Robin's, TheBigBabou's entries. David T & Exeat completely original and brilliant. All were completely amazing!

For example las 6 had entries that placed #1, #9, #11, #13, #23, #26... That's a lot of votes!

Las 6 You are amazing at taking simple geometries to such an abstract futuristic level.

TheBigBabou, Love the lighting and flowing movement in your entries. I too liked the one of yours that placed #10.

Robin, A master of Form, clarity, precision. It was hard to choose just one of your's as each one looks like it fits perfectly on the page. So professional it was hard to believe.

DavidT, love the organic feel of your banners. Each of your entries was original and a different take. amazing.

Exeat, Great work with your banners, It's hard to believe you even had time to work on your own stuff, considering the fact that you probably spent hal of you time fixing my entry mistakes.

Jimmy, love that quirky sense of humor.

Great competition. Glad I participated.

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Quote: "DavidT, love the organic feel of your banners. Each of your entries was original and a different take. amazing."


Thanks Are you looking at the right person? I only submitted two - one was second the other was last!

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Yup, I liked both of them!

The first one has that organically looking "Jack??" kind of on the lines with Suse Linux. Not sure what the name is for those 3d elliptical thingies?

The one that came in last, was great for many reasons. The colors are bold, nice rounded edges and light reflection. It looks organic and reminded me of the look on Ducatti Motorcycles or some of the japanese bikes. The sahding on the red is great. It looks like wax that melted an conformed to the Ferrari Yellow part.


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Wow, thanks. I suppose it's hard to critcise your own work when you know how it was done.

It's the same with games and apps, I hate anything that I make because I know how rickety it is inside

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Hey Hey!! So chuffed one of mine was in the winners!!

Will they be officially in the newsletter then or is Rich gona be putting comments on the site?

Looks like the Terrain thingy on it's way

What happens now then m8y??

Can't wait for the next comp, got a taste for it

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3d elliptical elements... blobs?

Thanks guys - it was a nice compo - a first one where I had a real chance of actually winning something.

funny thing is, that it wasn't even my favorite among of my entries. I think the compo results wer quite surprising, actually. And as you can see, it was a though one too!
Congrats to Anyone who got shortlisted. Keep in mind that there were over 170 entries overall!


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It was difficult even for the people voting. It was hard to only select 3 to vote on.

Rich had a hard job as well. While many of us were suprised at the length of the short list, I would have had a hard time - considering the ammount of talented entries.

Spectre was that your own character in your banner. It would have made a cool mascot?

Hey maybe the next compo after the one that will be mentioned in the news letter, could be to design a DB mascott. I like the pyramid and all, but we really need a character mascott. I tried to draw up a couple using the mask on the pyramid but they all looked like Swiper from Dora the Explorer. (Ummm yeah, I have a 2yro neice). The human one's looked like the Hamburglar from McDonald's.

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Quote: "that means the 6th place person can pick one item from the above in his place (so that's you Mr. Apillo!)."


There's actually a few people that achieved equal 6th place, if you look at the points: Jimmy, TheBigBabou and Preston Chaderton all technically came in equal 6th, there was no particular reason why Jimmy was above the other 2. And I guess because TheBigBabou has already won a prize, he doesn't need to be considered. But Jimmy and Preston both equally deserve it, so I don't know how you want to choose between them.


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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 11:30 Edited at: 17th Jul 2004 11:31
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toss a coin?

or we could vote between them.
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They can both have prizes.

Will all prize winners please email me telling me what prize you'd like.

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Cool, so I did win something? Email you ASAP Rich

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Yeah, I was wondering about that, I just figured I was listed first because I had more 1st or 2nd place votes than the others. Glad Preston gets a prize! Grats


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Lol, actually that would've been a good way to do it! Oh well.


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I didn't win, but I get 3 of my designs displayed as Forum Banners. Sweet, one to add to my list of minor acheivements in life. I'll put it between winning a photo compo, and winning a paper clip holder. (Not winning but being shortlisted is better than being the outright winner of a paper clip holder).

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Posted: 17th Jul 2004 18:45 Edited at: 17th Jul 2004 23:37
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Especially as there were almost 200 entries!

Edit: Looks like the rotating banners are up, nice.


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Hey the banner is working! Just noticed.

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Lol, I just said that!


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Isn't it strange/bizarre/interesting/good how the new banners give the forum(s) a new lease of life?

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Thats IT!
I'm gonna go somewhere and cry now!

Why, o-why, can I only see this:
http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~jessticular/temp/banner.JPG

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Even after a reset and a Temp internet files clean-out it's still the same!

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Jess - email me the HTML source of the page that displays the screwed-up header please. Not the images etc, just the HTML.

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whats with the green text on the upper left

REoom3 gone gold by Mentor 18:45:30?


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I noticed that to CR it shows the latest post that was made, regardless of what board your in. I happen to like it. I didn't post a question about it because knowing me it has been there all along and I'm just noticing it now. I was waitng for someone to comment.

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Yeah it's way cool, but it'd be nice if it said which forum it's in, instead of having to scan latest posts in the forum list to find it


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@Zen - Yeah that character is my own, both were! Check my web site for full size images. I actually thought the Hippo banner of mine was better but hey who am I to argue!! LOL

@Rich - Will send you an email but what can we chose from for the software?? The Terrain program plus is not out yet I don't think but could you let me know what the full version will be able to do please, other then that what could I chose from please?? Thanks

@Rich again! - When will the avatar comp be coming up? or even a mascot as said above??

Will email you after get a reply, thanks.

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Spectre, Only the Top 5 (excluding Exeat) get software I believe.

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Quote: "I am looking for the best submissions and will put their designs into rotation on the site. Actually, I will give a prize - to any design I pick you can have a free copy of the Advanced Terrain Plugin and the Enhancement Pack when released. There.. a little incentive
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Are you sure as the above quote from Rich implies all displayed entries will get a prize???

Doesn't say top 5 on the winners board.

Just seen my banner on the site and really chuffed!!

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@Zen,

ok that makes sense, but it is new, I nver saw that there before
so as I post this it should change...

EDIT: nope, stays on something else...wierd.

EDIT 2: And if you watch it for a bit it seems to refresh itself every 30 sec or so but it never changes - even when there are later d/t posts?...

Is this a bug or a feature?


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Just been reading through the post's and it looks like Rich has decided to do top 5 now as he only has 5 prizes, didn't see that post as was going off the initial post that all chosen would get a prize but hey I'm stilled chuffed it's on the site!!!

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Ok, I get it now - that green text is renewed when you open your browser and come to this site - It doesn't change/update whilst you are here. Try it, post something, close your browser, return here and you'll see your post listed (if no one else posted in the short time it takes to come back)

EDIT: Yeah, going to another site and coming back doesn't do it - you have to close the browser.


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Well it works for me. And I don't have to close my browser. Perhaps something to do with your security settings.

But that's probably because I use Opera. Also while browsing the forum i have it set to automatically relaod the page every 60 seconds.

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I think the "Green Text" must be a work in progress. It needs to be clickable IMHO.

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CR - it will refresh every 50 seconds or so. It works correctly on Firefox and Opera, IE I think is caching the results for you - how nice of it

Spectre - there were too many entries to give out a prize to all of them. That is why I said the Top 5 will get a prize, but all short-listed would be displayed on the site.

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Yeah noticed after, see above post but never mind I am so chuffed about it being on the site!!!

Maybe next time

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thats weird because even if I do a ctrl+Refresh it still loads up old data. Oh well, thanks. No big deal


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I'm finding it really quite useful actually.. I was just reading the Billiards thread and saw that you'd replied CR, so came over here to read it. Will have to make the text clickable.

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"CR" Are you using IE? If so dump it. If you convert to Opera you will realize how limited IE is. Browsing multiple forums, with automatic refreshe, download manager etc... Mozilla - FireFox is looking good now as well.


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heh, yeah I am using IE, not sure if I wants to dump it yet - there have been times that I did want to however.

@Rich - its a cool, useful, feature - aces on your part


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Hmm, I'm using IE and after this post I'll see if it works for me.

Edit: Yup, I get the same behaviour too. Oh well, can't win 'em all.


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I didn't even know this was going until today, but this was mine I sent to Rich:



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Woah, that was weird, it just updated once after skipping many posts so I thought it must have been fixed but now it's not working again. For IE, of course.

Edit: There it goes again! I left my computer for about 20 minutes, came back and it had changed. o_O

Edit 2: Yay, it updated again. Maybe it's just really delayed or something. o_O


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Out of interest, how come now the forum banner is just a boring grey effort all the time with like grey steps on the extreme edges. And my laptop has loads of different images being loaded all the time (rather intensive isn't it?).

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For those who wanted to know how Banner #10 was done:
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Dazzag,
That is the exact same thing that happened to me.
I have emailed Rich with the html source of the page when that happens.

He should have it sorted soon... Hopefully.

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Quote: "He should have it sorted soon... Hopefully."
Excellent. Oh, and the only difference between machines is the one with the grey banner was an XP Pro machine, everything else is Home or 9X. Also, showing a different graphic each time is surely a bit of a hit on your bandwidth isn't it? Esp for dial up

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