The Coop Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Just for the sake of throwing something in... Also, hopefully these things are being designed at 300pdi, since that's the general choice for images meant to be printed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skrypnyk Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 needz moar wolf vs. smiley coop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jandalf Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Did this idea die officially? I so want this card to make my friends jealous (of my geekyness)... Anyways, can you guys please post your templates? Especially you, José! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthonium Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Well I'm done with my idea. I thought there would be more submissions. Anyway I suppose I'll just print out my own idea and laminate it just to see how it looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chumble spuzz Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Holy craps, how did I miss this thread? I wanna do a mock up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cáidh Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Holy craps, how did I miss this thread? I wanna do a mock up! Mock away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José the Bronx Rican Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Did this idea die officially? It was never officially alive; just a fun project. But in the interest of identification, I'm definitely willing to print and pass 'em out at meetups or whatever, after finding the best low-cost method. I'll tweak my designs later this week: look into other viable sans-serif fonts, create a rear, stuff like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chumble spuzz Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Well, here's as far as I can get for tonight. I made the mistake of purchasing SSB:B on my way home from work, so naturally I was a little distracted. I gotta say, though: I'm a fan of Jose's. Also, try to imagine that the holographic image is a 3D pretzel instead of a slap bracelet from google images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jandalf Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 It was never officially alive; just a fun project.But in the interest of identification, I'm definitely willing to print and pass 'em out at meetups or whatever, after finding the best low-cost method. I'll tweak my designs later this week: look into other viable sans-serif fonts, create a rear, stuff like that. Thanks for the clarification! Of course I knew this was no official project, just a bunch of geeks throwing in some ideas... ;-P As I said, I really like this idea and I WANT TO HAVE SUCH A CARD! Since it's extremely unlikely we will EVER meet (I live in Germany), could you post your template or otherwise give me the final files, so I can print it out myself? Of course, you could print it, but I think shipping it to me would cost too much... Anyways, no need to hurry! Take your time and do a good job. You have my respect already. NinjaN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José the Bronx Rican Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Got a little time now, so I'm back to work on this design. I'll offer printouts and templates soon, but before I settle on a final, along with a rear design, a little help choosing a font among the following. I've narrowed my choices down to a few for membernames and two for the titles. Names, especially, demand a nice sans-serif for maximum legibility. I'm leaning toward Trebuchet and Cornerstone; how about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCT Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I'm leaning toward Trebuchet and Cornerstone; how about it? Agreed. -DCT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpretzel Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I'm really digging José's design, and might be open to doing something official. It'd really only work if we could generate the images programmatically and cache them, though, using TTF and GD2 or ImageMagick or what not. Are there any intrepid PHP coders out there that want to work with getting template graphics from José and trying to code something basic that I could then take and work from myself? I'd love to do it myself - it's really rather sexy compared to the work I've been doing cleaning up OCR's code - but right now isn't the best time. If no one's up to it, José please save whatever templates, fonts, etc. are involved, and maybe we can do something down the road.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pezman Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Since we've got the main man paying attention now, I'd like to reiterate my suggestion that we take advantage of the vCard feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overflow Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 This...Is...so...NERDY!!! but...I WANT ONE SO BADLY!!!!! SOMEONE, MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!!!! I can see myself now, flashing my *official* OCR card to someone while pushing my glasses back up my greasy nose, simultaneously checking to make sure all my pens are arranged evenly and symmetrically in my pocket protecter.... I WANT ONE!!! NOW!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 Agreed.-DCT Agreed. Also: http://www.thebigshot.com/ WHERE HAVE U BEEN?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Here's what I think of your cards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LauaI21uFgY :3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCT Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Agreed.Also: http://www.thebigshot.com/ WHERE HAVE U BEEN?! http://www.darkesword.com/ Here and there, mostly...I need to post on this site more often. =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanthos Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 It'd really only work if we could generate the images programmatically and cache them, though, using TTF and GD2 or ImageMagick or what not.Are there any intrepid PHP coders out there that want to work with getting template graphics from José and trying to code something basic that I could then take and work from myself? I haven't coded PHP in probably 4 years, so I'm out of touch with a few things like current security best practices, but I can certainly give this a shot. I'd probably develop a generic and unstylized UI for testing as well as a method to form the composite image that would be called with a few parameters (so you could later call that method when you've integrated it into the main site), but we'd probably want to pull name and status from the database which, assuming I wouldn't have access to that, you'd have to do. Either way, it wouldn't be hard to give you something workable. Let me know if and how you want to proceed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpretzel Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I haven't coded PHP in probably 4 years, so I'm out of touch with a few things like current security best practices, but I can certainly give this a shot. I'd probably develop a generic and unstylized UI for testing as well as a method to form the composite image that would be called with a few parameters (so you could later call that method when you've integrated it into the main site), but we'd probably want to pull name and status from the database which, assuming I wouldn't have access to that, you'd have to do. Either way, it wouldn't be hard to give you something workable. Let me know if and how you want to proceed. I can handle all the database integration and backend stuff. Let's assume at least initially we're talking about 4 or 5 parameters... username, real name, remixer name (can be null), user title(s) (appears beneath usename on forum posts)... that should get us started. I'm assuming you have your own dev environment... it'd be best to code for PHP5 and GD2 in a linux environment, but my local ocremix dev environment is actually Apache under Windows, so do whatever you can. The idea of starting with a generic template works.... final output should probably be 24-bit PNG, so we can handle transparency. Since you won't need to be talking to a database yourself, you could easily just test with sample data for different types of users (if remixer name is null, assume normal member... if user titles contains judge, moderator, etc. assume staff... if username is djpretzel, assume administrator)... need anything else to get started? Eventually you'll need to figure out the true type font angle, and how to ensure GD2 has access to those, etc., but that can probably wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pezman Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Any ability at all to convert to .vcf (v-card format)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanthos Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I can handle all the database integration and backend stuff. Let's assume at least initially we're talking about 4 or 5 parameters... username, real name, remixer name (can be null), user title(s) (appears beneath usename on forum posts)... that should get us started. I'm assuming you have your own dev environment... it'd be best to code for PHP5 and GD2 in a linux environment, but my local ocremix dev environment is actually Apache under Windows, so do whatever you can. The idea of starting with a generic template works.... final output should probably be 24-bit PNG, so we can handle transparency. Since you won't need to be talking to a database yourself, you could easily just test with sample data for different types of users (if remixer name is null, assume normal member... if user titles contains judge, moderator, etc. assume staff... if username is djpretzel, assume administrator)... need anything else to get started? Eventually you'll need to figure out the true type font angle, and how to ensure GD2 has access to those, etc., but that can probably wait. Not quite sure what you mean by true type font angle, but that's probably (hopefully?) secondary anyway. I don't have a PHP dev environment at the moment, but it shouldn't be hard to roll one; Apache and all that haven't changed *that* much recently and I've done it before. We'd also have to think about caching, but that's another topic that's secondary to actually producing the images in the first place. Only other thing I think I need initially is the various images (or at least a Photoshop file; I've got PS 7) from Jose, as well as a back image (if that needs to be customized at all). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abadoss Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 My college has a card printer which it uses specifically for ID cards. What about finding one of those to do the actual card production? I mention it because there's no way that thing is overly expensive anymore... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted March 28, 2008 Author Share Posted March 28, 2008 Any ability at all to convert to .vcf (v-card format)? This whole thing isn't for electronic data exchange. It's for actual cards you hold in your hand and put in your wallet. I don't understand how vCards are even relevant. If you're suggesting parsing the vCard to generate the data for the card that will eventually be printed, then you haven't looked at how sparse the forum vCards are. The contents of mine BEGIN:VCARDVERSION:2.1N:;DarkeSwordFN:DarkeSwordEMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:darkesword@ocremix.orgBDAY:1983-12-22URL:http://www.darkesword.comREV:2008-03-27T21:34:38ZEND:VCARD There's nothing in there at all. If you're suggesting using the image and storing it in vCard format, then you're missing the point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pezman Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Storing the image as our profile's vCard wouldn't prevent it from being printed. It would just be another way to showcase your card... in case you happen to run into people you know through a forum more often than in person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted March 28, 2008 Author Share Posted March 28, 2008 Again, missing the point. But to address your point: why bother? How many people actually use vCards for contacts? I'd guess "not many." What it really boils down to is that this isn't the kind of card you hand out to people. vCards are analogous to business cards. "Here take my card, contact me." These are membership cards. They're not supposed to contain contact info. They're for showing off your membership. It's real and substantial and made of plastic. You sign the back and keep it in your wallet. You don't GIVE your membership card to people. It's not a contact card. I don't hand out my Star Wars Fan Club Membership card to people so that they can contact me. I have business cards for that. Nothing's preventing you from embedding a finished image in your own personal vCard, but honestly I don't think I know a single person who uses vCards and I don't think its worthwhile to pursue it. I could be wrong, but I don't think I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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