Gamertags & PSN IDs under avatar
 

Haven't pictured this yet, so it might look like crap, but wouldn't it make more sense to have gamertags and PSN IDs to be part of the information under your avatar. Seems more practical then going into a member's profile in the hopes that he/she owns a 360 or PS3 and games online.

Possibly a very, very tiny 360 / PS3 logo next to them rather than "Gamertag:" or "PSN ID:" which would potentially stretch something.

Well for Live tags at least, the score table under the quick links pull down shows the gamertags of the 100 members with the most achievement points (including banned members, hence your being on their twice). If something similar could be added for whatever the equivalent is on PS3 that might help. Failing that, I think an icon to show they actually have a tag at all might be better than listing it in the post bit, kinda like the gender and online blobs Acer was toying with for a while.

Running with that idea, a tiny icon that has an alttext or link title of whatever your PSN or GT or Wii Number is? Hover over and you've got your shit?

Under Join date would actually be pretty fucking pimp shit, gimme a moment.

Don't leave out the PC members. If you put up PSN or XBOXLIVE IDs, you gotta put up Steam tags aswell.

Time to play around with pixels again. =DDDD

http://e.photos.cx/xblicon-fc9.gif

That's kinda wide, Acer. I was thinking more like:

http://colonelskills.belkanairforce....ed/postbit.jpg

Nice, Skills. More pixel work~

http://e.photos.cx/xblicon2-42d.gif

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Last one wasn't spherical enough and the X wasn't high.

http://e.photos.cx/xblicon2b-8e2.gif

http://e.photos.cx/xblicon2bb-d4f.gif

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Then again short text isn't bad either.

http://e.photos.cx/xblitext2-91b.gif

Do something for PSN and I'll work something out. I'll even try AJAX.

I really like the text icons. Here's what I came up with for the rest of them. =)

http://e.photos.cx/networktexticons-e61.gif

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Wait a minute the Steam one looks a bit off I'm gonna edit it a bit and then make them individual icons.

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Here we go~ Xbox Live, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, PlayStation Network, Steam~

http://e.photos.cx/xbl-ea5.gif http://e.photos.cx/nwc-d70.gif http://e.photos.cx/psn-9a2.gif http://e.photos.cx/steam-e99.gif

Looks good.

The L in the XBL looks like it should be one pixel longer, though...unless the contrasting color is just creating some kind of illusion.

You could also try making one that just says "LIVE" in the gray box and see how that looks.

Okay, here it is. http://e.photos.cx/xbl2-7fb.gif

http://e.photos.cx/xbl2-7fb.gif versus old http://e.photos.cx/xbl-ea5.gif

http://e.photos.cx/xbl2-7fb.gif http://e.photos.cx/xbl-ea5.gif

How's that, Megalith? Which do you like? =o

Personally, I think you're right and it's better one pixel longer. Also, there is some darker shade of gray around the red because it wasn't popping enough so that might be the slight illusion you're talking about.

Get rid of the extra pixel. Looks goofy to have the L be wider than the other letters when not in context of the entire "Xbox LIVE" logo.

Tube, with the extra pixel extending the L the vertical part of the L is 4 pixels high and the horizontal part of the L is 5 pixels in length. They aren't the same length.

However, I'll extend the horizontal part one more pixel with a darker shade of red because with another bright red it looks a bit too long.

http://e.photos.cx/xbl3-7c9.gif

Yeah, not bad.

http://e.photos.cx/xbl3-7c9.gif vs http://e.photos.cx/xbl2-7fb.gif vs http://e.photos.cx/xbl-ea5.gif


What do you think is best?

I was saying it looked better without the additional horizontal pixel. Adding yet another one sure doesn't help, lmao.

Last one.

Oh lol did you edit your post? Also, I'm trying to recreate the logo's lettering as best I can at that size. Obviously the PlayStation Network isn't the greatest since S and N are a pain in the ass to make at that size. I had to use in-between colors to create curves and angles.

RR, so by last one do you mean the one that has the shortest horizontal length?

I'd like to know which one you guys like the most.

Here's what my eyes are seeing when I look at the most recent one:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8546/xblivesn1.gif

I was saying that the first looks best because all the letters look the same size. The second "L" is closer to the actual logo, but looks stupid to have a wider L when you remove everything except "XBL".

I actually prefer this:

http://www.photosled.com/uploads/7316/xbl3-7c9.gif

Am I crazy.

Gotta antialias that stuff.

Wow, are we arguing over single pixels here? Personally, I think the L has one to many digits of Red in the websafe colorpallet....

No guys, seriously, they look awesome.

Yeah. Didn't see tube's post snuck in before mine, so I didn't elaborate more.

That's not bad at all. But the thing with the icons is that they are abbreviations. But if you all like http://www.photosled.com/uploads/7316/xbl3-7c9.gif better then I'm all for it. The mixture of green and red is nice though from an aesthetic point of view.

And loooooooool Tube. =)))

I'm down with all the originals that Acer posted in post #9. This is a really good idea, considering these are the -gaming-force forums and all.

I dig the XBL one with the short L.

If lurker comes in here and agrees with Diss then this is a done deal. Sorry but pixel crew knows best. =')

Go with the short one.

(Although to be honest my eyesight isn't nearly good enough to tell the difference between any of those :( )

Totally loving the shit out of this, Acer.

So Blah, we runnin' with this?

Also, this is a great idea. But more importantly, these are fucking awesome:
Good work Acer.

Aw shucks~ :)

Only thing I'd possibly say is that the 'P' on the PSN one looks a little thin compared to the 'S' and 'N'. How about either:
http://www.opimage.co.uk/u/OmagnusPrime/psn-9a2-2.gif or http://www.opimage.co.uk/u/OmagnusPrime/psn-9a2-3.gif

(Lolz for quick hack jobs in Paint.NET at work)

Hmmm... I like the first one since it still looks pixelly but I'll have to take a closer inspection later. What does everyone else think?

The second one matches the style of the other icons better but then I don't know what the PSN logo (Assuming there is one) looks like in the first place.

It's based on some textual logo I found that day. I'm having trouble locating it again though.

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Found it!

http://g.photos.cx/psn-logo-3b3.jpg

I of course inverted the colors but the design of the text still stands.

http://www.pspsps.tv/live%20vs%20psn.jpg

I think this would look good for the PSN logo, but then someone would have to make glassed buttons for the rest. Whoever did those forum icons for the game section should do it, although everybody is probably anxious to just use what we've got.

That might be interesting but that isn't the PSN's circular logo. My last post shows it and as does Skills' earlier example. That and glassed doesn't match the rest of the post bit and it might be hard to achieve that look.

The thing I like about the textual ones I designed is that they're around the same size of the flags and buttons in the post bit so they don't feel out of place. You could easily fit all of them nicely in there if you wanted to.

Just as a test (going with the glass circle idea), I knocked these up:

http://www.opimage.co.uk/u/OmagnusPr...ce/GFF_XBL.pnghttp://www.opimage.co.uk/u/OmagnusPr...ce/GFF_PSN.pnghttp://www.opimage.co.uk/u/OmagnusPr...e/GFF_NWfC.png

This is the PSN network thing: http://www.opimage.co.uk/u/OmagnusPr...e/GFF_PSNo.png

Not done one for steam, but what do you think?

Those are actually pretty nice, dude. =)

I'm just still not sure how I like the idea of having little blobs in the post bit though. Those are really well done though.

I think I prefer Acer's small ones. We must decide quickly, or we will be no better than old men who rot on their front porch arguing about the weather on April 9, 1935.

What was the weather like on that day? It could be very important! =o

http://www.photosled.com/uploads/7316/round.jpg

http://www.photosled.com/uploads/7316/flag.jpg

Cool. Just keep in mind that my icons will have transparent backgrounds so they'll match just fine too.

Fixed.

I think they both look good (the round ones could use a little more contrast), but I think the flags win out because of the color variety.

Excellent. Thanks for editing that again, Megalith. =)

I agree. I literally knocked those up in 5 minutes using Pixelmator (for the first time) so they're complete rough concept jobs. I'll have a look at knocking up something a bit better tomorrow when I've got a bit more time.

Acer's little ones are still top notch though.

Well if we were to go with mine we'd have to decide to go with your superior text rounding for PSN (and consequently a superior S for Steam) or the original pixel job.

Is there any news on this one? I think it'd be quite cool to get them added, though some sort of decision as to what style to go with would have to be made.

Ker-bump.

I know this is digging up a slightly older topic now, but everyone seemed to be in agreement that we should do these when it was discussed properly, with just the style of the icons to be decided. So, I reckon we should get this train a-rollin' once again.

Oh hey! I completely forgot about this bit of pixel work. Thanks OP. =)) Yeah, I still need to do a mash up the nice 'S' you created in PSN for Steam's icon.

Good bump. =Y

Snap to it then Mr Bounce, we don't have all day. :p

Acer, you have failed me for the last time. OK, perhaps the second to last time.

Anyways, since we now have CHz on board as resident code monkey admin/fixer, is there any chance we could actually get this going?

Yeah, probably. :)

I did mention this in the Hut actually last week so it's not forgotten.