New! Signature Generator

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

At the very least the shadow should be fixed(-ish), I added some stuff into the code for Ste to allow for partially transparent drop shadows (before it was fully opaque)

Edit: Better or worse?

Edited November 12, 2009 by The_Decryptor

[Chasethebase Veteran]

At the very least the shadow should be fixed(-ish), I added some stuff into the code for Ste to allow for partially transparent drop shadows (before it was fully opaque)

Edit: Better or worse?

Looks nice, but the white bands are too sharp. The ones in the header are much nicer to be honest. :)

[Lilrich]

Looking good but i agree with chase - the white bands are too sharp.

[Rob Veteran]

Nah that is the correct Subscriber2 badge - it is different to the standard Subscriber badge. He's just asking about the name text.

[Calum Veteran]

Any reason the font colour/effect for the Subscriber² badge is not the same as shown on this page? I think the badge on the linked page is gorgeous and the font makes it look much better.

[Rob Veteran]

Hum yeah sorry, I missed that. Yeah on the Sub2 sig it's that brown font rather than the white, and a white shadow.

[Lee G. Veteran]

At the very least the shadow should be fixed(-ish), I added some stuff into the code for Ste to allow for partially transparent drop shadows (before it was fully opaque)

Edit: Better or worse?

The name text looks a little too faded. I think there's too little shadow one this one, as opposed to the generated ones, which have too much.

I'm looking forward to having one of those signatures as my subscription runs out at the end of this month, and I'll subscribe as a Subscriber².

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

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lcg: That is a generated image, newer code than what Ste has though, even then it's just manipulating alpha values.

[Lee G. Veteran]

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lcg: That is a generated image, newer code than what Ste has though, even then it's just manipulating alpha values.

Oh, I see what you mean. It looks a pretty good generator.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Oh bah, my mac's FTP client over-wrote the file with a week old version.

I've got to stop using that one, it keeps doing it.

[Rob Veteran]

Perfect!

[Dance.]

is there a link thats gonna go live soon :huh: ?

[Stephen Veteran]

is there a link thats gonna go live soon :huh: ?

im a lil busy atm, however if alex can send me a better file ill upload that :p

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

is there a link thats gonna go live soon :huh: ?

If someone manages to slap Stephen into finishing it, yes. :p

[Rob Veteran]

Hard to tell in the screenshot, but important because of longer names - have you adjusted the letter spacing in the generator? I just reduced it by 10% or so in the Fireworks version - I prefer slightly tighter kerning in that font. If it's not possible, don't worry about it. Looking forward to having this up, for staff use too :) Thanks for your efforts.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I'm still patiently waiting for this, Stephen. :ermm:

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

im a lil busy atm, however if alex can send me a better file ill upload that :p

The code hasn't changed location :p It's in the same place as it was last time.

Rob: Yeah, you can adjust the "kerning", GD's pretty dumb when it comes to text rendering but you can fake it yourself (don't draw a string of characters, draw each character itself, then you can change the position, etc.)

[Rappy Veteran]

any updates :p

[Dance.]

could we get it in different sizes? like the same width but different height?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Hard to tell in the screenshot, but important because of longer names - have you adjusted the letter spacing in the generator? I just reduced it by 10% or so in the Fireworks version - I prefer slightly tighter kerning in that font. If it's not possible, don't worry about it. Looking forward to having this up, for staff use too :) Thanks for your efforts.

I have some code that kinda fakes kerning now, not entirely impressed with it though.

No Kerning:

vs.

Faked Kerning:

I can't read the actual value out of the font, so all that happens is the width of the character is worked out, then a kerning factor is applied to that as a percentage of it (0.5 = 50% of the character width). There's a bug that causes the "ju" to get more spacing when drawn separately, somehow.

Edit: I should make this clear, in the second line I'm only applying a custom kerning value to the "fo" bit, the rest has no kerning applied and the tighter spacing comes from measuring the character width separately.

Edit 2: And I think it breaks down entirely when you use a sans-serif font too :sleep:

Edit 3: Changed the function around a bit and got a much nicer result, also works with sans-serifs now.

Edit 4: Even more changes!

vs.

Edited December 1, 2009 by The_Decryptor

[Rob Veteran]

Heh I say let's just get it released - all looks great to me :)

[Raa]

How much will it cost me? :pinch:

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

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[Rappy Veteran]

any chance of releasing that Decryptor? that looks pretty awesome (Y)

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

The code's been available the whole time :p

http://alex.thefrapp.com/files/generator/generator.zip

Waiting on Ste to have some time to implement the changes back into his main code (mine has a lot of switches that he wouldn't use, kerning is an opt in thing for example)