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[City Builder]

Some people have this down and some of what they come up with amazes me.

I thought I'd share the latest one that I found in another forum that I visit:

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[Lengo]

Great Scott is right!  I was just now getting over my ex-wife after 12 years then you gotta go and show me her picture! 

That's pretty good though.  But some of the lines don't fit horizontally...... just like my ex! 

[MaxBeta]

  AacCkK!   Good Lord...what is it?

..your ex..eh Len??  Hope you didn't have anything to do with her dental work..looks downright dangerous      _{..did she wear a flower in her hat?}  ...all j/k of course.

[City Builder]

Howard Beale "Im as mad as hell, and Im not gonna take this anymore!"

Due to linebreaks and width of this forum it doesnt display right in the text window so I've made a screenshot instead.

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[MaxBeta]

  Yeah... that's  better for viewing..

I just copy/pasted your other "image" over into Wordpad..it wrapped the lines into a corrected image.  So no biggie..we know how the restrictions of a forum can be..

Thanks for these interesting Art displays... I just never had the patience for this sort of thing..plus going blind isn't a very good incentive either..   

How's all your projects going...I figured you're getting close..sure hope so.

Did you see pad11's and my post on ..requesting some game stats from you on your EU3 experiences..  That game has me totally engrossed presently..but I'm slowly working out some sort of successful attempts.  <confession>...With pat's help of course..

[Sandra]

That's amazing CB, it's a dinosaur isn't it
I don't believe it's Lengo's ex, it's wearing a mans hat

[City Builder]

I havn't played EU3 in a little while now, I've been going at it real hard at World of Warcraft.  My character is now level 39 1/4 and I'll be buying my first mount at level 40, so i've been pushing to get to level 40 for the past several weeks.

I have a feeling it will be rather anti-climatic when I reach 40 and get my first mount, since the next real goal won't come until level 58 (to access the expansion content of the game) so it will be back to the grind to go from 40 to 58 which Im really not looking forward to.

I made a pact with myself that I would take atleast one character up to level 40 to get my riding mount, then I'll have to see if I really want to continue with it.

Other than trying to level my character up to 40, I've played the economic side of WOW but now have that beat, so theres no real challenge there anymore so my interest is waining.  I've now got 353 gold which may not sound like a lot but considering that so many people complain that they dont have any gold in the game I guess thats an alright number for a level 39 character.  Between level 40 and 60 I'll have to save up another 400+ gold to get my improved mount at level 60.

It's really become a real grind lately just trying to hit 40

My mothers project got worked on, on friday just about all day since my real life work never showed up on friday, and I also worked on it on sunday to try to straighten out some problems.  Though I still have some issues with the site and the way that tables are being drawn out, I get a little one or two pixel spacing where there shouldnt be any spacing and it's just about got me pulling my hair out at this point.

I've still go to go to my mums place to pick up 4 more DVD's to try to grab screencaptures out of it of her with the celebrities to post as new photos, which Ive been avoiding doing because it's so time consuming to sit and try to capture out one frame from the DVD's for each celebrity, they just never look right, they always look like Ive captured them with a camera pointed at the television and I don't have any software or know of any that will let me capture individual frames from the DVD's so Im trying to pause the shows and do a print screen screenshot which isn't working all that well.

Anyway, I'm also supposed to be going to the resort people here to let them know if I'll take on a position as office manager for them, but they confided in me that the resort is up for sale and they already have a buyer and anticipate closing the resort in 3 or 4 months when the escrow closes so I really don't have a lot of incentive to go part timing it for them at the moment but it makes me feel queezy that I need to go see them today and either tell them nay or yay and if yay, how much I want, it's difficult knowing that they really don't have a lot of money and after looking over their invoices I see that they have a huge amount of bills that are over 90 and even 120 days that are unpaid and they can't afford to pay them, so I think it would be a very anxiety ridden position which I dont need in my life.

I slept outside last night with the winds howling at 30 to 60mph (or so it felt) on the lounge chair in my sleeping bag (I love the windy nights) but didnt sleep too well because the sleeping bag is one of these mummy bags that only allow me to sleep with my arms by my side, so Im tired today too.

Well, back to the grind, for a couple hours, then I have to drive into Los Angeles tommorrow for my real life work.

[Unitedcat]

CB PowerDVD a software DVD player have (or had) the capability to Step
frames and Capture them into .BMP files
From the PowerDVD 7 site:

"Screen snapshots can be captured with a user-defined aspect ratio and saved as a bmp, jpg, gif or png file, as wallpaper or to the clipboard

There is a tryout version here:

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/main_1_ENU.html

OR if it fails, here is from a forum thread about DVD-Screen Capture:

"The best in my oppinion is Webcam Video Capture. Clean and easy to use.

You can download the latest version form http://www.webcamsimulator.com/download/wvcsetup.exe

"
It was posted Dec. 2006 so it's pretty new info 

[Unitedcat]

I'm uploading 2 Screen-Captures done with WinDVD 5.0.
It was some dvd software that came with my computer.
Didn't know it was able to both step frames and do Captures...

Anyway I think it's hard to get high quality pictures from any DVD.
Because it looks very sharp when running the movie. And I think it's
the 24-25 frames/second that makes it that way. It's the sequence
of frames that "fool" our eyes a bit.

When you go to "pause" and step the frames there is less sharpness.
So I think it's almost impossible to get real "photo quality".....

Movies shot with digital Cam without any filter would yield the best quality
frames. But they are not often used that way....
Because too great sharpness is not "astetical appeling" when zooming in
close and such.

I think there is tryout versions of WinDVD too.....
EDIT: Here's a link...
http://www.intervideo.com/WinDVD/

Here is 2 test captures from the Movie "You've Got Mail"

Good Luck with this now 


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[City Builder]

Thanks,

The second shot is remarkably sharp for a capture from a DVD I think.  My mothers Im sure was shot to tape because they are from 1994 to about 200x and their budget from what I remember of the show wasn't all that large.

But as she keeps telling me, low quality is better than nothing, so she's apparently happy enough with it, but the Power DVD does actually make it easier since I can just keep hitting the capture button and it's auto saved for me instead of having to paste the printscreen into photoshop.

I should be able to get all of it done long before the trial copy runs out I think.  I have quite a few older copies of power dvd from all my old computers but I would guess that they probably wouldnt work right with vista, I seem to remember seeing something about that in the microsoft vista newsgroups.

Thanks for the tip, it has definately helped.