Easter Eggstacy

[Capt Jones]

Yes, faithful followers, it's here. The springiest skin you've ever seen has arrived.

The Share Your Skin Love Forum has painted five bright windows (and a MikroAmp too) just for you. Full of bouncing fun and hidden treasures, it's an Easter hunt for kids and adults alike!





* sniff * Oh, to see your offspring grow up.

Eggs-A-Plenty





[Edited by Jayn on 03-22-2001 at 03:04 PM]

[Duk]

Damn! I had no idea this was gonna be the finale! Just simply incredible! It went form the look of a 3 star to a solid 5 IMHO. Simply great Main fix! Too kewl. I am proud to have my name attached to this. Thanks guys!

[chiquita chad]

wow... i dont know if its a fiver but i think it'll get a 4... a five is possible but questionable
i definitely like the final product... very kinky!

[Namelessv1]

The equalizer is definately my favorite part.

[chiquita chad]

Originally posted by Dawg4Life2K1
The equalizer is definately my favorite part.

it's everyones fave

[Mr Jones]

Been a pleasure working with you guys, worked out far better than I had ever hoped for.

A real pleasure and it gave me back the desire to skin again , working became fun once again

See you in the next one

And the EQ is my fave part as well, LOL, well it would be

Day job?, its saturday and the scotch bottle is out

[Xerxes]

I must say, the EQ is very Dada; I like it!
Good Job Y'all!


For our next collaboration... i would like to something maybe not holiday rlated so its not used seasonally...

[Capt Jones]

It does the heart good to know the masses like it. Good work to all of those who joined in the effort.

And in the fun things to do with your skin category:

I considered announcing a variation of the classic "Count the Llamas" game, but decided I couldn't ask any one to go through that tedious grind. (I do have an official count, ofcourse, because I would do that for you.)

Instead, here's a new challenge:

Lying along the top of the vis area/song scroll, there are 18 eggs. One egg for each skinner involved in the project. Number the eggs 1 through 18 from left to right.

Now, any one care to draw a line connecting each egg to the matching skinner?

[Duk]

I thot those lil pokie doties looked familiar. Yum Yum!!! Ya couldn't a picked a better piece of my puzzle to associate with moi.

Oops! Hope I didn't spoil the contest.

[afro moe]

wow!!!... this is the first time i have ever done a joint skin like this before... and it really did turn out nice... it was a lot of fun

[Assja]

Very good indeed!!

The EQ is awsome, but my favourite part is the ShufRep-buttons. They kept me for several munutes just clicking away !
Lots of nice details.
Hope I can join in to one of the future collaborated skins!

[chiquita chad]

are the 18 eggs personalized... or are they there just to be kinky?

[Namelessv1]

R the eggs in the same order u posted the parts/skinner names? Cuz if so, i know.

[Capt Jones]

Originally posted by Dawg4Life2K1
R the eggs in the same order u posted the parts/skinner names?

Now, Dawg, that would be way too easy, wouldn't it?

Yes, Keetah, they're personalized for each specifc skinner.

Look at Egg #6, which is indeed Duk's, and compare it to the EQ. See the direction we're going? Got a little bit of some one in each of the top 18 eggs.

Aren't you all lucky?

[chiquita chad]

mine's the 16th isnt it??

[Duk]

I wish mine was egg 6 and egg 9.
Did I say that out loud?

[Zeruel]

I enjoyed working with all of you, as well.

It's been fun. Maybe next time I won't be so lazy, and volunteer to do something a little bigger. Haha...

[The Only Lynx]

im proud of the cooperation
good job all

[BullGawD]

Ahhhh, the face of egg number thirteen is reminiscent of an egg I'm certain I've seen elsewhere - perhaps I saw it long ago, during the passionate days of my mispent youth, lying on its back in the cool spring grass as we.... um err, scuse me... Numero 13! Always my luck number.

Skin looks great guys and gal , I am truly impressed with how much the main has improved. If you turn on the easter egg, it makes for a cartload of eggs!

( Now who's gonna be bad and make like a rabbit?)
HAPPY EASTER PEEPS!

[flatmatt]

1 - afro moe
2 - Exzelian
3 - cappy17
4 - skinme!
5 - DigitalDragon
6 - Duk
7 - Rikki
8 - pixelpusher
9 - flatmatt (me)
10 - Bilabong
11 - Mr Jones
12 - Zeruel
13 - BullGawD
14 - The Only Lynx
15 - Jayn
16 - Chiquita Chad
17 - Xerxes
18 - Dawg4Life2K1

Disclaimer: If I misspelled, miscapitalized, or misspaced your name, it's not my fault. That's what was in the readme. Yell at Capt Jones. Or kick yourself for not correcting it.

[DigitalDragon]

I am duly impressed with the result, and abashed with my contribution after seeing all of the others. I'm newer to this, and am still learning all the little tricks of the graphics (I've had PSP7 for about 4 months now, had never worked with a graphics program before that). How in the world do you guys (and gals) manage to make the very small graphics look so smooth and clear?? The grass on my AVS looks more like a grass stain, and the eggs tumbling down the sides would have all been dumped down Wonka's 'bad' shoot with Veruca Salt. I gotta get schooled, I'm draggin' ya'll down.

But... I enjoyed the collaboration, would certainly enjoy another worthy project some time, and appreciate being included. Thanks!

[Mr Jones]

Hey DigitalDragon, your stuff look great man, think where the problem comes in is the way AVS stretches and pulls things around, always without fail makes whatever you draw there look a little blurred and skewed.

So not your fault man, just a quirk with Winamp, other than that top work

Back to the day job

[Spoonman]

That's really quite good. I'm not at all into Easter, otherwise I might have volunteered, but the end result is full of the daring and whimsy I expect from you guys.

A bug though. On my NT machine here at work, the cursors have a serious transparency problem. My Microangelo 2.1 can't even open them, as it says they're not valid ICO file. Of course, they're not ICO files, but CUR files.

I fiddled a bit by changing their file extensions to ICO (didn't help) and ANI. Microangelo Animator seemed to think that they were animated cursors when I used ANI, but it said that they were more than 256 colors, which version 2.1 apparently can't support. That would also explain the large files size on the cursors.

[Capt Jones]

Originally posted by Spoonman
A bug though. On my NT machine here at work, the cursors have a serious transparency problem.

Thanks for the heads-up, Spoonman. We in the shop noted those quarrelsome cursors, but didn't realize they actually caused a bug. Will go back into wrestling with them to clean the issue up.

flatmatt -- you hit the egg list perfectly dead on head! You are not only a keen-eyed skin sleuther, you're a big winner. Of.... hmmm.

How about a golden egg? Yes, flatmatt wins the Golden Egg! We'll whip one up and get it over to you in a bunny's hearbeat.

[Capt Jones]

Within the flood of responses I've received on the sheer beauty of Easter Eggstacy, a significant percentage have commented on AVS presets.

"Capt Jones," they say, "where can we get that ultra-cool preset that's in the screen cap?"

The answer, true believers, is easy: It's in the Easter Eggstacy AVS Preset Pack. Download it and see the AVS do things it's builders never envisioned.

Despite my inherently obvious skills as a manager of skin artists, some cyber surfers have also asked, "Capt Jones, beyond your thunderstruck-imposing skin collaboration skills, what have you brought to this project?"

As if the sheer brilliance of the final product isn't enough to satisfy, I respond by leaving you a gift to demonstrate the Capt Jones not only teaches, but creates as well. To all the designers who labored on Easter Eggstacy, and the skinners who rooted for us, and the skin users who
give our work meaning, I present Easter Eggstacy Speakers. Use them, don't abuse them.

And now it's time to say goodbye. Yes, loyal troops, my work here is done and Capt Jones is archiving this project. It's been a thrill-packed ride and thanks for boosting me above junior member status. Until a vacuum in the skinning world sucks me back, this is Capt Jones signing off. Always remember: clean entertainment. Over and out.




[Edited by Jayn on 03-22-2001 at 03:07 PM]

[BullGawD]

LOL, clean entertainment: I'm sure Duk will have something to say about that.
It's been fun CJ, the speakers look great, and I hope to see you back for another project sooner than you seem to think.

[chiquita chad]

hehehe i f*cked up the cursors
didnt mean to tho

[Duk]

Originally posted by Capt Jones
Always remember: clean entertainment.

EH HEM!!!

Hope to see ya 'gain soon Cap'n Jones. But not too soon. Still stewing over that little "Jenny Who?" comment. :grumble grumble: Adios amigo!

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by Duk
Still stewing over that little "Jenny Who?" comment. :grumble grumble:

I saw that as well, wonder which element of the dynamic duo put that comment in there


Back the day job

[Duk]

:grumble grumble:

[cappy17]

Capt Jones has left town, saying something about a well-deserved rest at http://www.crazyhorse.com.

And he left me with a little list of loose ends to tie up. So, first thing:

The cursors have been properly whipped into shape. Easter Eggstacy has been updated as of 2:45 PM Eastern Standard Time (which is 19:45 GMT). Please download from the same old link and refresh your hard drive. Spoonman; I don't have an NT machine (Win 2K is the closest I can get) to test them on, but I think you'll find them repaired. Please let me know.

Second order of business: flatmatt has received in the e-post his prize for correctly naming all of the 18 designer eggs. Capt Jones wanted me to post this tease of flatmatt's limited-edition trophy:



The Captain says, and I quote: "Tell them to stop their whining and try harder next time. To the quick bunny goes the gold."

I am now done doing his dirty work.

[The Only Lynx]

what i also think is cool is..

the winamp easteregs are easter eggs

[Spoonman]

Originally posted by cappy17
The cursors have been properly whipped into shape. Easter Eggstacy has been updated as of 2:45 PM Eastern Standard Time (which is 19:45 GMT). Please download from the same old link and refresh your hard drive. Spoonman; I don't have an NT machine (Win 2K is the closest I can get) to test them on, but I think you'll find them repaired. Please let me know.

Cursors confirmed. They still won't open in Microangelo 2.1 unless I change the suffix to ANI, but that's not your problem. They work fine in Winamp.

[flatmatt]

Ha! I have the Easter Eggstacy Gold Edition and you don't! (I still have as yet to figure out if anything is different besides the readme.) Thanks Capt Jones!

Now, what do you think it means by "And the total is: 213?" That's the next puzzle.

[chiquita chad]

Originally posted by Spoonman
Cursors confirmed. They still won't open in Microangelo 2.1 unless I change the suffix to ANI, but that's not your problem. They work fine in Winamp. [/B]

thats b/c microangelo knows the cursors are animated so they have to be in .ANI form
however winamp skins accept cursurs only in .cur form... therefore if yu create a animted cursor you have to change it to .ANI

[cappy17]

Originally posted by flatmatt
(I still have as yet to figure out if anything is different besides the readme.)

Oh for God's sake! First person to see what flatmatt can't gets the skin themselves...

[Mr Jones]

GOLD REPEAT EGG LOL, gimme gimme gimme

Oh and 213, number of eggs in the skin, egg hunt get it ?

[cappy17]

Originally posted by Mr Jones
gimme gimme gimme

Not sure I approve of the manners displayed here. However, a deal is a deal. If you report to appropriate distribution point on the web, Mr Jones, you will receive your very own copy of the highly acclaimed Easter Eggstacy Gold Edition.

[BullGawD]

Looks like I should spent less time foolin around - - MJ beat me to it. Oh well, I think the standard edition is just fine

(pssssst) hey Mr. Jones, can we make a deal?

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by BullGawD
Looks like I should spent less time foolin around - - MJ beat me to it. Oh well, I think the standard edition is just fine

(pssssst) hey Mr. Jones, can we make a deal?

Awwww, to bad man, tell you what tho, as you got the "spot the llama" game cracked at the fist attempt on "the end...?" if you hit the mail button and send me your mail address I'll post you the location where you can collect your prize, the one of a kind "the end....? (sepia edition)"

Offer lasts for 24hrs from now, 1818GMT

Back to the day job