Wolfeh

Hey now. This is why we have private servers, so we can rip it apart and put it back together ;D But regarding the actual topic, its hard to say. I'm itching to get into open beta which is Feburary 22nd. I like the mounts, graphics, and I really don't see how it is incredibly different from RO1. RO has cute graphics, mounts, quests, grinding; RO2 has pretty much the same thing, lol. I wonder if there is WoE though? Never saw anything about it, I'm sure there is PvP. The classes are of course quite limited, but once they get their stuff together I'm sure that will be their next course of action. I like the fields and towns, some of them remind me of norse mythology quite a bit, compared to RO1 which totally failed in that regard. (Niflihiem is the land of ice, yet they made it like, the underworld. You can take a subject and put a whole new spin on it, but if that was what Gravity was trying to do, they still failed badly.) I think the only thing that is really different is the life professions and maybe a few new monsters... Looking through the gameguide, in one of the pictures it looks like they're going to do that stupid limited inventory crap. I hate that, and I'm sure there will be very limited storage too. I'm sure though that the biggest downfall will be the incredibly boring, go kill this, quests, which I've seen in the closed beta youtube videos.

Oooo. Now there is an optical illusion I haven't seen before Love these things~

Nice to see there are AMV fans around here ;3 I still have one that is in-progress, but I haven't seen Wolf's Rain in so long, so I can't remember where to find things and its delaying the progress quite a bit. Even though my favorite anime is a sad one, I really love the cutesy and fun ones. I think you did a good job, but I noticed in one part that it sounds like the footage wasn't muted as I can hear the characters voices, not sure if that was intentional or not. If it was, then you may want to turn up the volume for those clips or split the music and lower the volume for that part, I prefer the lowering the volume method but it takes more work. I also noticed a very common error in one part of the video, which is where a clip unrelated to the music appears for a split second, but because of that I know you're using Windows Movie Maker, it, for some stupid reason, inaccurately displays footage in editing so the final result is a video with basically an error. Its no biggie, but in the future you may want to try Sony Vegas if you want to bump up your editing a notch. I've just started using it and it was incredibly confusing at first, but they have interactive tutorials built into the program now which make it so much easier.

Reminds me of this image circling around facebook. I guess the authorities are being funded by the fat cats now or something, 'cause usually they have more important things to do than ransack the internet. Government in 2012 = epic phail. But if all else fails, maybe TPB will make a download site, since the fat cats have already gone after them and lost, so I doubt they would try it again. Though with TPB so active already, I find the idea hard to achieve (unless they got another super host or something).

The shading makes it look 3-dimensional, it seems incredibly realistic.

I agree, that the mobs make it look cluttered. I like the idea though, of replacing certain letters with mobs, but it looks like you placed the mob over the original text, it might look better if you remove that particular letter, replace it with some spaces, and then place the mob there. Then, since some mobs aren't as large as the letter (like RO), you could try making them larger. Free-transform is one way (select the layer, select "Rectangular Marque Tool", right click and click "Free Transform", then drag the lower left or right corner while pressing the shift key, so the portions are constrained and it doesn't look stretched), and the other way would be opening the mob and resizing it by itself, then copying and pasting onto your original work. I would suggest going with a theme, you have cute monsters mixed with monsters that have no cute to them, so it kind of throws it off, so either go with the cute or go with the more serious ones (since the server name is Mysterious RO, serious may compliment it more if you choose ones that are mysterious or enchanting). The two red monsters (I've seen them, but don't know their names yet) don't seem to fit at all, because of their color and theme. I think those would fit more with an ocean/beach themed server. I agree with the wiki intersecting with the title, it just doesn't look right. I again like the idea, but I'm not sure as to how to make it work. You could try changing the font and font color, but if that doesn't work then hmm... Well I understand the style, you're trying to combine two subjects. Maybe try combining something related to the wiki software you're using (media wiki?), into the title, like what is seen here, instead of the text. I also like the Mysterious RO text, but the Storyline, Wiki, and Features text look too simple/typical, so they don't have that interesting/wow effect. I like Version 3 the most out of everything, because the stroke and drop shadow make it pop more.

Ah, you're right! I guess the align trick doesn't work. >: I tried the ruler tool as well, but that didn't produce very accurate results either. So I decided to just move it and go by eye. Result.

Yay~ And like so? Though the centered-ness doesn't look any different, I centered it by selecting the text layer, button layer, and then Layer > Align > Horizontal Centers.

So, I think what the problem was, was that I was trying to mesh cute, with the elegant and artistic nouveau, which I don't think works. At least, I couldn't make it work. So how is this? I made it more serious and I think the style fits more. Revamped~ Thanks for the help by the way, I'm inexperienced in this field and want to make sure I do things right. Don't be afraid to voice your opinion, just as long as you give suggestions on improvement. ;3

Wellll, I love fresh french bread and hummus, but it HAS to be fresh, it tastes ew when its cold/old french bread. Since that is hard to do though, I prefer my italian pasta dish, which unfortuantely uses very specific ingredients that could disappear and are only found in one place (because one ingredient is store-brand) D8 Its much easier to make and very inhale-able.

That is weird. I know iRO did, but I didn't know kRO did (unless e/rAthena is going off of iRO now?) But yeah, I preferred the quests as well, but would rather make my own. I didn't enjoy the official ones. Too boring. But the new system is even more boring.

Bunny heaven

FEAR MY ITALIAN FACE >: o

Now this is my kinda topic. I know. Something I would totally watch on youtube. Too bad the original was taken down. This one is still good quality though 8D @FUS RO DAH, if only such a thing were possible in Skyrim >: Kinda is, cause at a certain level you can blow people away, but not in that epic kind of way.

Okay. I found an art nouveau-like font, that has just a touch of nouveau but not enough to not be ROish, and then found another that is even less, to where its hardly noticeable, but I can still see it. Since the logo font didn't match the buttons and seemed out of place, I decided to change it. Still concerned about the nouveau font, it may be too nouveau to fit, but I'll see what others think, lol. Version 2

Well, it kinda did but you can still see some pink pixels. I guess I'll try a png background and see if it works, I didn't know you could do that but at the same time it seems possible since png buttons are now supported. I had that issue too, thinking it didn't look right. They both have the same font size, but maybe I'll try making the X smaller. Lol, its this font. Since the name of the server is Absinthe RO, I wanted a font that was either art nouveau (which was popular in absinthe posters and the first famous piece of artwork with absinthe in it was art nouveau) or something related to alcoholic drinks. Absinthe is also said to have "psychedelic" affects, so I thought the jumbled look would work. I think the art nouveau fonts are even more horrible, they just don't look RO-ish, lol. I'll see if I can find anything else though. Those kinds of fonts are so hard to find ;A; Maybe I'll look at pay font sites. So this is it now, will update with the new image when I find a good enough font and apply it. [image removed to prevent an image heavy thread. See most recent post for most recent design.]

Most recent version: The buttons were the hardest part for me. I finally decided to edit the hell out of them and this is the result. Wanted to make sure it looked good before implementing it, so I want to see what others think.