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[Marked]

Welcome back everyone,

I apologize for the downtime which lasted just under 8 days. The reasons include my own negligence and a severe case of Murphy's law. Hopefully we can pick up where we left off.

I did let some of you guys know on our Twitter, Youtube and a few of you guys on MSN, but of course it took a lot longer than what I said. So I apologize for that, I was saying what I myself expected. But I'm glad so many people queried about it.

However the downtime is not without benefits, I have several new things ready for install, and many which will start production soon. The first is something that I prepared for when the forum came up, sortof like an apology gift. I did a little bit of research on dynamic images for this. This little component is called Project Card Generator: http://www.rmxpunlim...ject-cards.html
It 'dynamically' creates these:


Again, apologizes for all the time and welcome back.

For more info on the Project Card Generator & Chatroom, check out my latest blog entry: http://www.rmxpunlim...card-generator/

[Agckuu_Coceg]

That's nothing... We are sucked paws two weeks when the ours database server is burned.

Thank God it was over so quickly. I wanted to rmvxp.com breakdown, because I was bored... It turned out alright.

[Lizzie S]

Next time there will be issues like this, let me know, and i'll see if i can assist.

[Marked]

Thank you Leon, I appreciate the offer. I am confident that this won't happen again, and I will make sure things are organized next time round.

[RATED-RKOFRANKLIN]

Hopefully things will pickup.

[Marked]

Give it time, its only been 12 hours.

I finally got the other thing to work that i was working on during the downtime. A hook on the board index which shows members chatting in the last 2 minutes:

10 points for the first member to find the chatroom

[isaacsol]

I repaired and optimised the database last night, hopefully, things will not be as laggy now.

[Marked]

Great, thanks isaac

I'm also going to go through and clean up unneeded tables, entries and logs.

[Joey]

*attempts to throw rocks at Marked for being late with paying the bill....except that he's out of rocks now* T_T

[Kiriashi]

GAAAAAAAH! THE SITE WAS DOWN ON MY BIRTHDAY!


What a nice present....


xD


Oh well, at least the site is back up now. How exactly did this happen?

[miguel1]

Yay it's finally online
I like the new features, especially the Project Card Generator.

BTW: here's the Chatroom

[Obsession]

We....~ I finally have a siggy. Sorta. Welcome backies Marked, no hard feelings <3

[darkcieran]

yyyyaaaaayyyyyy!!! it's back up and running. i'll be posting up an new system that i got soem help with for my game. (i think folks'll like it)

[Omar510]

Was missing the awsome community i was working on a game and i wanted feed back but the site was gone D: luckey i saw your youtube channel marked! thank you!

[Chief]

gah, finally. Jeez, I finally decide to become semi-active on here and it dies... I was longing to get back on for the whole time. I checked the site like twice to three times daily. Finally.

[CrimsonInferno]

I was just afraid the site wouldn't come back on
I'm happy it's on though ^^

I love the card generator by the way! It's great!

[Marked]

@Joey: Hey, its not that simple. But I'm not going to go into details. I honestly expected the site up within days.

Yeah I'm really sorry it took so long...but i did make some stuff for you guys to make up.. And there is so much more cool stuff in the works...literally will keep me busy for a month. But it will be slow going, or at least I hope for the sake of the start of my second year at uni starting monday.

I'm really happy to see the project cards in your signatures I was skeptical people would like them. Especially some of the themes, the only one i really like is default. darkcieran, the 100% goes outside of the box in your project card. I'll fix the theme up soon so it can be fixed.

[Chief]

If at all possible, I could make more themes and such if you'd ;like. Id just need a layout to follow.

[CrimsonInferno]

Well, as soon as I can generate mine (PC won't load a lot of things right now) I'm gonna generate mine, save it and put it in my sig.

EDIT: Never mind, got the site to work on my PC! ^^

[Marked]

Nice, good use of the logo feature.

@Chief: I would be happy to add any additional themes. Here's a template for you:
 theme_example.jpg   13.13K   12 downloads
This image shows you everything that the user can generate. So what I did was change the transparency and build the theme around this template.

[Chief]

Attempt number one:

http://img297.images...5/woodenone.png

[Marked]

Looks cool, theme RedWood added. I'm going to have to come up with a method to show the themes before the image is generated.

[CrimsonInferno]

Oh, could I contribute a few?
They are most just colors...but eh, thought I could help ^^

Spoiler

Gray:
http://i48.tinypic.com/1568nmc.jpg
Green:
http://i49.tinypic.com/2qan4ep.jpg
Teal:
http://i48.tinypic.com/2wmnler.jpg
Red:
http://i46.tinypic.com/ip59pu.jpg
Gray Blue:
http://i46.tinypic.com/wing2g.jpg

And then one I messed around with. The quality on this one is pretty bad
http://i49.tinypic.com/dx0iuf.jpg

They are probably really bad

[Chief]

Not bad, but for choices sake, I would only do the gray one. The rest are just edits of it really, and the grey looks the best. we cant really have a million choices,a s it would get a bit crowded, but I dunno, maybe diversity would be key? Im not sure.

[CrimsonInferno]

Well, they were to pick from
Whichever one he wanted to add (if he wanted to) he could add it. Personally, I like the teal :>

[Marked]

They are all nice, thank you for submitting them. I agree with Chief, however the only thing preventing us from having 100 themes is not being able to view them before generating the image. So I'm going to have change how it works. I'll work on this tonight, somehow I'll come up with a way to display each theme without having to generate the image. Then I will add your themes.

50 images generated so far

[CrimsonInferno]

Okay

I was just offering multiple choices
(I like teal, red and gray ^.^)

I can't wait to see it finished.

[Agckuu_Coceg]

I can still add some twenty themes to the Project cards, if you will.

[ShinyToyGuns]

I love this feature...I do have a couple of suggestions for it, however, which you can read on the blog post

I'm also gonna try coming up with some themes for it...maybe based on some of the window skins I've made?

[Kiriashi]

I would put it in my sig, but I'm really working on any of my games right now. ;(