Rant #007 Friday, December 5, 2003

Some new features have been added to the site.

First, you can see who and how many people are in the forums from the main site, without entering the forums. I hope to get something similar for BV soon.

Second, when selecting a skin, your skin selection will remain between sessions, so you don't have to choose the site skin each visit. Additionally, when a skin is selected from the menu, you will remain on the current page rather than being automatically taken to the home page (I know that must have been annoying).

New 2214 character bios are in the works. Karen's bio is back up. More bios are to come, specifically for Gesh, Azurat, Bachan Fumacine, and Dr. Maxwell.

2214's next update should be right on schedule, and perhaps Omnitemporalis will be updated, too. There is some new art under the Sketches and CG Art galleries, too. It's Ravenna in the winter, with her new outfit (read: added scarf).

I learned to use the pencil tool instead of the brush tool in Photoshop: the pencil isn't anti-aliased, which means it's bad for low-res artwork, but I do everything at 2000x2000 originally anyway, so the pencil tool provides sharper lines that don't mess up fills, and looks much better once the finished art is reduced to publishing size. I knew there was something that looked off about the line sharpness.
That's all for now.