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7:20 AM
Hi @ZachSaucier
You are temporarily banned from suggesting edits - please review your edit history.
How much time it will take?
 
@DevelopersPedia i think it auto triggers when your edits are declined too often
no idea how long it lasts
 
 
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10:35 AM
@DevelopersPedia that should clear rather soon. The ban's there for a reason, though: a lot of your recent edits have been rejected by other users. If that happens a lot in a short period, you get an automatic ban.
 
 
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1:08 PM
good monday.
 
hullo
 
everyone have a good weeekend?
 
yeah, kind of. installing a new 5.1 rig took some effort :) You?
 
worked some.. rained off and on then a huge storm it early this AM so no outside fun
 
1:23 PM
I think I caught that bug of yours. Feverish last night, trying to shake it off now
 
shoot mine was more then feverish
 
ah yeah, that was a full-on flu, right? then I'll shut up and won't complain :)
 
nah that was a viral/stomach infection from my kids school that put me out most of the week..
 
ugh
 
what
 
1:33 PM
that was me feeling for you :)
 
oh, ha.. ya.. I wouldnt wish that on my enemies even, lol
damn jooja beat me to my edit and added the smart object... +1
 
@GiantCowFilms If there's any Qs you want me to put on the A51 proposal, please holler!
(or any other 3D Qs for that matter)
 
ya I saw John did a few was going to add some more
 
yeah, the more nice Qs that proposal has, the better. It's just that I am a total 3D n00b and have no clue what good questions would be
 
we get 5 each
 
1:43 PM
@Darth_Vader did you not know they added the linking in PS?
 
ya, but the way he was going I was hoping it would build the project correctly
 
@Darth_Vader sure i mean pS is the worng tool for many things
 
@Darth_Vader yeah, and I'd like 'em to count
 
@RandyJones do the two that I posted not count?
 
Im trying to avoid doing any 3d stuff as of late
yet i have maya open
 
1:47 PM
Oh I'm sure they do! but I meant that if I'm going to post some, I'd like 'em to be good 3D questions. And I'm hardly the person to judge
 
then make a few questions of the propsal
I really dont see why Blender, based on the activity cant expand and take other questions but thats me..
 
I guess a lot of people have that with us: why can't they, based on activity, take how-to questions? :)
hey @JohnB
 
I thought we did take how-tos, lol
 
hello
 
oh wise one! how was thy weekend
 
1:51 PM
exhausting, lots of yard work at my dad's place
 
I have a jungle at a relative if you want to help, lol... dont have a tractor though ;)
 
hah, no tractor no work!
 
that much? O_o
then again, I guess your dad's yard is a tad bit bigger than wat I'm used to :)
 
 
1:56 PM
↑ not even 5% of the logs that need to be cut up and moved
I have a few more exhausting weekends ahead of me
 
building some muscle, the outdoorsy way
 
aw yeah
(and destroying my hands in the process, I was stupid enough not to wear gloves on Saturday)
 
ouch
 
@JohnB ouch indeed
Id build a man cave out of the wood..
 
It's also the time of year where I annoy you all by talking too much about my pepper plants, so here are some baby pictures
 
2:02 PM
@JohnB you cant talk about them since you never send me any ;)
 
well then I'd have nothing to talk about
 
@Darth_Vader the re is a dupluicate question in the 3d examples
 
oh?
 
@JohnB awwww cute :)
 
ah I see
removed
 
2:07 PM
@JohnB which one of those willl grow into the baddest devil that'll scour the taste buds from your mouth?
 
the ones with the red tags are Carolina Reapers, currently the official hottest pepper in the world
however, there is a new contender that is said to be hotter, though not yet for sale or certified
 
are you re-using the seeds or ordering new ones every year?
which pepper is that? carolina reaper is the guy in NC right?
 
I ordered plants this year because I was lazy. But I would buy seeds from a vendor instead of harvesting my own, peppers like to cross pollinate so I'd likely get some cross breeds from the seeds I keep
 
so you'll end up with a Carolinapeño one of these days?
Or is that a Jalareaper?
 
2:12 PM
Carolina Reaper, worlds hottest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Reaper
HP56 Death Strain, new contender: http://www.chilefoundry.com/2015/03/27/hp56-death-strain-is-this-the-next-world-record-holder/
 
death strain... wow
 
next year, maybe!
 
holy cow... the dude vomits, really?? WHY
 
three of my friends vomited after eating one of my Trinidad Scorpions from last year
I've never vomited from one but they definitely sweep my legs out from under me
 
do you still enjoy 'regular' spicy food?
or does ev erything need five tbs of sambal now?
 
2:19 PM
oh yeah, I dehydrate the superhots and make powder out of them and sprinkle it on everything
 
everything without mst seem exceptionally bland to you :)
 
I should keep a little vial on me at all times for emergencies
 
You are a crazy man
 
how do you do that on a trip?
 
Guys quick quetsion, do you think you could put this fellow on the sidebar?
Support 3D.StackExchange, a new home for those pesky 3DS max quetsions meta.graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/2567/26236
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2:24 PM
already has my upvote
 
@JohnB I mean here in chat
 
ditto
 
So that a few more people see it
since I count more then 6 folks in chat ;D
 
done
 
star'd
@GiantCowFilms any existing 3D questions on here that could use migration to the A51 proposal?
 
2:37 PM
Not really, they need to be good high quality questions, not just help me with 3DS max
I might look though em later today if I have a chance
@RandyJones Wait you mean in beta?
 
@GiantCowFilms add some!
 
well... 'migration' is not a great word
are there any 'good high quality questions' on GDSE now that you'd like to have?
 
@JohnB Working on it
 
if any of you wants to create an image for my codrops article I still need one ♥
 
@ZachSaucier ? codrops article?
what images
 
2:42 PM
one I just wrote. I need a header image for it, not sure if the Codrops people want to provide one
 
I might, whats it supposed to be
(I won't demand/be hurt you use it if it looks terrible, so I might as well try)
 
I as thinking it'd have the same style as this one
but with my article stuff, 'course
 
Wait the entire image with the laptop?
or just the vector graohic?
or just the text?
 
the entire image
can use a stock photo of a PC
 
@Zach that shouldn't be too hard
 
2:44 PM
the screen shot would come from my demos
@RandyJones my PS acct expired :P
 
Yah, I'll have to... I don't have any nice looking latops or hipster coffe lying around
or nice wodden tables
 
unsplash.com has some nice (and free) stock of iMacs
 
ours is still a orange 1970's counter top
XD
 
and I didn't mean to say 'do it yourself', I meant 'I could help you with that' :)
 
2:45 PM
:D
 
ah
I'll get you some screenshots
 
would prefer a desktop as it's a very cutting-edge article
doesn't work perfectly in Safari :p
 
(not my fault - it's their fault)
 
2:47 PM
anyways, I'll look this afternoon, still got some motion graphics stuff to finish
(not to mention all my school work)
@ZachSaucier What did they do?
 
Safari? frak up.
 
Made Safari suck
lol
 
Oh
Does it work in IE
 
it falls back to a fade in for the cutting edge demo
 
when's it due, @Zach?
 
2:50 PM
@RandyJones ASAP but not highest priority. If I don't provide one they may make one themselves, dunno
 
<-- checks for good stock
 
The final image needs to be 580x315px i.imgur.com/o2A8uNJ.png i.imgur.com/j4hDDcL.png i.imgur.com/ThgC3L3.png i.imgur.com/Sxwfrwx.png i.imgur.com/TuYsmwi.png here are some image choices. If you want more/different ones let me know
 
Ah, so you want these to be super imposed onto the screen?
 
yes please :)
one of them, 'course
or w.e you think looks right, pretty open format
 
meh. It's just such a pity that 'good stock' is almost an internal contradiction these days
 
2:57 PM
I have other effects as well if you want to put multiple, just let me know
 
@ZachSaucier Read and yellow flashing ;D
I'm so happy
I just remebered how to render multiple "passes" at once
:D
nvm
wong room
 
hehe
we'll celebrate with you :)
 
Its quite a cool trick
wonderfully sorta-hacky
 
@Zach you sure an iMac ain't OK? :/ people photographing PCs have no idea about composition or colour
@Zach something like this?
(dont mind sizing and the lorem ipsum yet)
 
3:16 PM
@RandyJones iMac works
 
too late, got a PC :)
it's laptop tho
 
ya, that's fine
let me figure out what text would be good
 
ok, will finalise later, gotta run to teach class now :)
 
Thanks Vincent!
 
downloaded it? I'd prefer to remove it cos of unlicensed use of the img
 
3:18 PM
kk, done
 
ah you're a room owner, can see it anyway :)
kick me tomorrow with the txt
anytime, gald I can do something in return for all the css help :)
 
hey @Appu
 
3:30 PM
@RandyJones I think "Large image loading effects" would be a good title. For the smaller text, something like "How to show the loading progress of images by Zach Saucier" would work. Or it could just be the big title, whatever works. Also, could you provide the PSD (or whatever file you're working with?)
 
3:42 PM
@RandyJones thank you very much
 
3:55 PM
in my country, the Friday is weekend :/
have a good weekend ;)
 
4:13 PM
I think it's Monday
 
@JohnB why do you say that?
 
my lack of motivation is a good indication
 
yes absolutely it's my mistake
:)))))
I don't even know what day it is today!!!
 
must have been a heck of a weekend :)
 
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Q: Please explain why this question is considered "tech support"/"easily Googleable"

DomThe question is quite self evident. I'm asking how to do something that is a small yet common requirement during a website design project. I am genuinely facing this problem and trying to solve it. How can I determine an OSX-friendly fallback font stack when I don't own any Apple devices? It's ...

 
4:28 PM
@JohnB You know how much I'm weak in English, What the heck mean? :)))
 
@DevelopersPedia just a joke, if you did a lot of partying over the weekend you may have blacked out and forgotten it
 
ha haaaaaaa, that's the point.
 
5:25 PM
I REALLY want to slap some people
Not here.... but clients....
 
uh oh
 
I start getting calls this morning every 30 minutes starting at 6 am
already pissed off....
 
are they on the east coast?
 
I'm up and abotu around 8am... still ignoring calls.
This guy in Texas (central time) wants an advertisement done and his deadline is noon CT.
I finally answer his call at 9am PT... ad needs to be done my 10am PT.. yeah... right... like I'm one-hour photo or something
 
hah.
 
5:28 PM
And it's not a simple ad.. it's got custom artwork, photo searches...
I had to have a rather brisk conversation with him. I HATE starting weeks off like that
 
understandably
 
I sent it off to him at 10:20.. so we'll see.. and he'll pay double for it.
It's one of those clients that is completely oblivious to anyone else's needs.
 
those are ones that I don't work for again
 
I shouldn't have to explain to business owners that I do have other clients and other committments.
Yeah.. he's a nice guy and was really apologetic. I give everyone ONE CHANCE. he pulls that crap again and that's it.
 
screw me over once and the blame is on you. Screw me over twice and the blame is on me
 
5:32 PM
yeah. He KNEW he was out of line. But I guess he felt he had no other option. I let him know that I dont' start work at 6 am and won't even respond to him on weekends (I got like 30 emails over the weekend from him).
 
hello
 
Hi Vlad
 
hey Vlad
 
I made a web game and I am having trouble how to design my buttons.
Hey guys, whats up?
So my buttons are diffrent, one is 34 pixels high, other is 42 etc...
:D
some of them are streched some of them squezzed
:D
some of them are significanlty larger than other.
If you were the grpahic artist of my graphics, what whould you do to keep all the buttons uniform ?
 
consider using a grid to keep everything tidy
 
5:35 PM
It's not really possible to tell Vlad without seeing the content of the buttons.
I'd keep them uniform in general though.
 
I have it on web: wml-spinnerbox.rhcloud.com
It loads a bit slow, sorry
I have to make better buttons for a spritesheet
 
maybe not all the same height, but definitely the same width for all the buttons in the center column on the main menu
 
yeah I'd make them all the same width.
 
yes yes I agree
how about the arowed buttons in help screen?
I mean spiked
 
I think it would help to make them a different color than the background
 
5:40 PM
yeah green buttons with white text would be better, but the shapes are okay there.
 
well I respect your opinion but if I put white color the text will disapear since on rollover the button becomes white with green border :)
 
yeah.. you'd have to alter the rollover too.
 
And I guess I should put smaller size of font. Currently Verdana
ok will try something and get back here if I have question
 
interesting, the W3C is launching official HTML courses / certification w3.org/blog/news/archives/…
I wonder why they didn't call it W3C Schools ;P
 
:)
I bought a book about HTML5, forgot to read it :)
 
5:55 PM
I've signed up for the course to check it out but I doubt I'll pay $99 to be certified in HTML5
 
nah, its not for me... I dont like hello world courses :D
They just take your money, in return you get only certificate
 
yes, it's labelled as intermediate but the syllabus does look like pretty basic stuff
 
I payed 400 euros for Android course. Expected a bit more on practicing what we learned. The teacher just finishes the classes, gives you certificate and that's it :D
 
@Scott @JohnB Hello.
 
hello
 
6:08 PM
Hi @Boris_yo
 
@Scott I have talked to the printer and he said that they used their default foil. No wonder they take audacity to fill out missing details that you miss to provide them...
 
Its not that uncommon for a printer to use their "best guess" if something hasn't been specified. That's why we all suggested you just ask them :)
 
Once he sent me options, it was much better:
 
yup.. I kind of knew that may happen :)
 
I even didn't know what to pick due to many suitable options.
 
6:14 PM
"Gold" is just too broad a term in general.
 
@Scott Yeah indeed. Wanted your take on which pattern you would like by looking on already existing logo: imgur.com/a/x9eEj
 
sup
 
I'd probably lean more towards the 103 or 102. I'm assuming his "default" is the 101 and was way too yellow.
hey Matt
 
how you doing scott?
 
annoying morning, but other than that okay. You?
 
6:25 PM
about the same...
 
@Scott Sorry it was wrong page. Here is correct one and I picked #117: i.imgur.com/WZXFUmE.jpg
 
Yup. I'd have chosen 117 or 113.
 
7:03 PM
Is anyone else seeing this on this answer?
the spacing between answered and 2 is off
 
7:18 PM
weird. I came back just now and it's fixed...
 
7:35 PM
@ZachSaucier the system is messing with you
 
7:50 PM
@ZachSaucier I saw something similar, I forget if it was in that location or not
@Boris I'm glad to see you cleared some things up, just a case of knowing the right questions to ask :)
 
thoughts?
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Q: How to Get Vector Files After the Fact

gckpsI am an office manager for a security company. When I was first hired on, my boss had a friend of a friend that he used to do the business cards and letterhead. They designed it, but used a logo that we already had! There was no contract and no file formats were discussed. Well, now we need more ...

 
@Darth_Vader legal questions aren't inherently off-topic on SE sites
 
I know they arent but Im trying to figure out how to word this question because it almost falls under the one Scott posted no?
 
you advise them to review the contract but they stated in the question that there is no contract, so that advice isn't too helpful :P
I would say it's related but not a dupe of Scott's question
my answer would be: if there's no contract, tough luck. Evaluate the cost of paying this designer in comparison to having someone re-vectorize it, go with the cheaper option
sounds like the designer is being a butthead but he's under no obligation to keep or provide their logo files. He's not Dropbox
 
8:07 PM
left answer then
 
Reason 500 why you should not host your clients web site: Hosting providers Mail server has been tagged by a spam abuse center. All client email now bounces back as spam. They, of course, call YOU to get their email working again.
And that vector thing... it's similar but I agree not a dup. More along the lines of "How did this designer get the logo if he/she did not create it? Can't you get it from there again? If not... then what John posted.. he's not dropbox and in charge of maintaining client files which were not his creation.
 
I left my two cents
I think the designer made of had to re-create it based on the question since they do not seem to know how to keep files
 
I suspect they said to the stationery designer "hey we need to get other stuff designed, can we have our files?" or something along those lines, which is a bit of a slap in the face
"give us a copy of our property so we can go give someone else money"
 
Yeah if I convert the crappy client-provided PNG to a vector file.. it's mine and I charge :)
 
@Scott triple.. that is
ok Im done with the crap today.. Ill work on CSS later. good night
 
8:20 PM
ahh matt.. you dont' want to do my client's web site.. damn! Guess I have to! See ya
 
you pay me I will
;)
 
okay.. just get it done :)
 
8:35 PM
oooh, new credit card is chip enabled. Previous one wasn't
America is catching up, finally
 
Which Chip?
 
you're pushing it on how far back I'll go for understanding cultural references, but this one squeaks by :)
 
I wondered.. :)
 
8:56 PM
Should someone tell that lady wanting vector files that if she has a PDF of the stationary...well....
 
@Scott good idea
 
See I'm torn. If Someone asked me personally, I'd explain. On a web site where ANY client can view .. I'm hesitant to provide directions which may circumvent my own self-interests.
 

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