Should I send in my GIF 8x8 in size, or should I resize it?

Bye!

I was wondering the same thing, and what are the 8 colours that we're to use?

I sent mine 100x100 but it could be smaller, once the borders are chopped off.

I think it means you can only use 8 different colours and you must use 8x8 blocks of pixels to make your guy, a rule that I've infringed slightly, but in (what I can only hope is) an acceptable way.


giant_frying_pan

Send it any size, as long as the RELATIVE size is 8x8 (ie however big your pixels are, there should only be 8 of them each way). As for colours, use the standard Speccy set (red, dark blue, purple, light blue, green, yellow, white, black).

"I sent a message on the internet but it rejected..."

What's up with that address?

L Myth:
>"I sent a message on the internet but it rejected..."
>What's up with that address?

Whenever you see a Digiworld e-mail address (example_bob@falsebit.digiworld.tv, say) take the "falsebit." out.

It's an anti-spam trap that isn't the uselessly obvious "REMOVEME" or something ("Bah! As a spammer, I am completely fooled by everyone using the same trap. In capitals. If only there were some way to automate the removal of such things") as well as keeping idiots out of our hair who are infected with Klez, &c, which scan their computers for anything that looks like an address.

(We still get a few via digiworld_dan@falsebit.digiworld.tv, who appears falselessly in sign-up e-mails. Grrr.)

Back to the pics: Rev Stuart is correct about the squares (whatever size pixels you use, the INDIVIDUAL BLOCKS of your pic must be 8x8 your-pixels); some more info about the colours is this:

DIGIWORLD COLOURS (USING STANDARD HTML RGB DEFS):
Black: #000000
Blue: #0000ff
Red: #ff0000
Magenta: #ff00ff
Green: #00ff00
Cyan: #00ffff
Yellow: #ffff00
White: #ffffff

If you use tiny pixels (and thus end up with a tiny picture) DON'T blow it up before sending: it's easier for us to adjust it temporarily on the screen than try to shrink something that's been force-resized.

All except a single entry have been spot on so far, so hurrah! for our lovely readers.

JN.

Uh-oh.


giant_frying_pan

Don't worry man, I can pretty much assure you that'd be me.

This compo has me completely confused. Can someone explain it to a non-techie?

Are we to use paint or some other hard to get graphics program.

I hope when DIGI said drawings done badly were good it meant it.

DRAWING A DIGIWORLD PICTURE IF YOU DON'T QUITE FOLLOW THE "BLOCKS" THING: THE STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

1. Download Rev Stuart's official Stuart-o-draw grid from http://digiworld.tv/stuart_digi_grid4x4.png

2. Open this as an overlay in your favourite art prog (or as a layer, or whatever. The important thing is that it's a guide, through which you draw on the canvas itself).

3. The grid squares are 4x4, so view at 200%. (This way, the resulting blocks are 8x8, so exactly duplicate a Digiworld screen.)

4. Fill in the squares on the guide-o-grid. This will draw blocks on the canvas underneath - hey man, you're drawing in the Digiworld style! Remember that one square = one Digiworld block (so don't go drawing your eye using 135 blocks or something - it'll just be too big for the screen). A typical Digiworld char is about 10 blocks by 12. A top limit of 20x20 ought to be plenty if you're a fatty bignose or something. The trick is to make a small bunch of stupid squares expressive.

5. You can use only eight, simple colours: black (#000000); blue (#0000ff); red (#ff0000); magenta (#ff00ff); green (#00ff00); cyan (#00ffff); yellow (#ffff00); and white (#ffffff). Your background must be black.

6. Once you've drawn yourself to your satisfaction, save your little Digiworld guy as a GIF and send to compo8@falsebit.digiworld.tv. (Remove the falsebit.)

7. Say, "Help! My eyes really hurt."

JN.

Do I have to enter? What's a computer?

D'oh! I feel so stupid now. I thought that by "using 8x8 squares" (as in the compo rules) what you meant was that we had to use, like, 8x8 squares. Not, say, 10x12 squares or 20x20 squares, or some other number of squares that isn't 8x8 of them.


I expect extra sweets (unsucked).