I just updated my MonsterID plugin with great monster artwork from Lemm who out of the blue emailed me with artistic very cool sketches of every monster part. I was just saying I wished I had gradients in my monsters and now I have honest to goodness hand-sketched monsters. Man the internet is great. The new version is a little processor intensive so it might take a few reloads to get all the monsters cached on a popular post but it will only happen the first time and things will be quick after that (and I set it so no one user should have to wait more than 5 seconds). They sure look great once they’re generated. Lemm’s about page says she does some freelance work, so if you’re looking for a great illustrator, it sure looks like she can draw.
ScottS-M | 05-Feb-08 at 6:45 pm | Permalink
Figured I’d throw a comment in to show off my new MonsterID.
Aziz Poonawalla | 08-Feb-08 at 4:39 pm | Permalink
lets see mine, too!
Scott, how hard would it be to create a sidebar widget analogous to the Recent Comments one, but which also showed the mnsterID icon? (perhaps a bit smaller, like32×32)?
ScottS-M | 08-Feb-08 at 8:38 pm | Permalink
That shouldn’t be too tough. If you don’t mind letting the browser do the compression you could just do something like
echo '<img src="'.monsterid_build_monster($author_email,'',false).'" width="32" height="32" alt="MonsterID"/>';That would use the same image file that is already stored and let the browser resize it. If you wanted PHP to resize the image and save it in a separate file that might take a little more work but I could code it up if it’d be helpful.
I’ve never messed with Widgets before but I’ll take a look and see how hard it is to add one to the plugin.
ScottS-M | 08-Feb-08 at 9:12 pm | Permalink
Actually now that I think about it, I can just let the plugin add a tiny monsterid to the front of any comment authors that aren’t on a post or page. I’ll throw that into the plugin in the next couple days.
ScottS-M | 13-Feb-08 at 5:17 pm | Permalink
I updated the plugin so (if it’s working correctly) it should have an option to set the size of the MonsterID for non-post pages (which should be the front page where the widget is). Let me know if that’s what you were thinking.
Edit: Hmm well that didn’t work right. I ended up having to make my own widget. Should be working now.
Nick | 23-Apr-08 at 9:43 am | Permalink
Wonder what I am…
Lex | 09-May-08 at 5:15 pm | Permalink
That’s my Mr. Hyde. Or hydenticon. Right? Right?
bob | 08-Sep-08 at 2:31 am | Permalink
god,I love these icons!
timtom | 15-Jan-09 at 8:09 pm | Permalink
wow i like them — and i wanna know how i would look :D
Kelly Homes | 04-Feb-09 at 11:47 am | Permalink
These really rock. Thanks so much!
Lennart Steinke | 02-Apr-09 at 4:36 am | Permalink
Just wanted to my monster id :) Those are looking soooo cool….
Pichan | 19-Aug-09 at 2:17 pm | Permalink
Just had to see what I’ll be
Test | 05-Sep-09 at 9:45 pm | Permalink
Just testing.
Michael | 10-Sep-09 at 1:54 am | Permalink
testing
Tom Glenn | 03-Jan-10 at 12:50 pm | Permalink
Definitely an improvement on the original MonsterIDs. These are looking really nice.
John W. | 27-Jan-10 at 11:05 am | Permalink
Very nice!
2Φ3Σ27Φ (\)λ√λ22Φ | 07-Jul-10 at 7:11 pm | Permalink
way beter than OG MID
Virtureal | 31-Jul-10 at 10:28 am | Permalink
Wanna see mine.