Special Rank Archive

[rolesfamily]

Tily used to be on the official ranklist. She gained a small cult of admirers, including me.

The original RZ one?

[PluMGMK]

No, the one here, up to 2012.

[rolesfamily]

No, the one here, up to 2012.

Haha sorry that wasn't the official rank list in my mind :p Either way, it looks a pretty good rank, but god damn you Tily.

[Shrooblord]

I think the Toilet Tily requires an upgrade ... but I always seem to lose her when I speak about her! Spanex, where are you, you beauty? :'D

[Serza5]

I decided to attempt to move Tily to the new template:

Tily.png

Is there a place for her in this archive?

Of course!

Why do people have problems with the corners when there's a rank template given on the first page? Surely if you're working from that, you can't go wrong, no? Unless I'm missing something fundamental here.

You'd have to zoom into the template or even just load it in on PAINT to see why; the reason the corners are so smooth is that the corners use transparent colours on some of the pixels to make it look smooth. Naturally when you place a full opacity picture with no transparency on top of the template the pixels are no longer transparent and thus make the corners seem jagged/pixelated.

[rolesfamily]

I decided to attempt to move Tily to the new template:

Tily.png

Is there a place for her in this archive?

Of course!

Why do people have problems with the corners when there's a rank template given on the first page? Surely if you're working from that, you can't go wrong, no? Unless I'm missing something fundamental here.

You'd have to zoom into the template or even just load it in on PAINT to see why; the reason the corners are so smooth is that the corners use transparent colours on some of the pixels to make it look smooth. Naturally when you place a full opacity picture with no transparency on top of the template the pixels are no longer transparent and thus make the corners seem jagged/pixelated.

But surely you're making the image fit the template so it shouldn't affect the corners? Thanks for explaining btw

[Serza5]

Think of it this way : Imagine you have a glass of water, the water is obviously transparent right? Now imagine taking a thick piece of paper and placing so that it covers the whole glass; You can no longer see through the glass because something that isn't transparent is covering it.

The process of making ranks is similar, if you want the rank to still have the smoothness if the image covers the template then you need to ensure that the corner pixels retain the same level of transparency to make it smooth.

EDIT: If you're still thinking "eh but surely no?" then all I can say it do it for yourself and see what happens in an image goes over the corners.

[rolesfamily]

Right I'm with you so far (first paragraph)

Ah, I see now. I wasn't thinking that the image would run over the corners. But you're right. The only way to do that would be to keep shrinking the image so it fitted just right without it affecting the corners.

Thanks for explaining further

[Shrooblord]

To elaborate further on my trick: I selected the template layer and used its Invert as an outline for the actual image's layer. Then I'd erase anything that was inside of the marching antline (the selection box) - doing this right will ensure everything outside of the template gets erased, but nothing inside does.

[Harpic fraîcheur]

Here is all the Special Ranks you can use on the site if you win an event like like SOTM or The Teensie Quiz. Just post here with your ranks and i'll feature them up here. Hopefully this time it will be more organized. You can make non-Rayman ones however they can't be used as Special Ranks.

Oh perfect idéa !
I create now an rank !

[LeGribouilleur]

Livingstone rank :

[Harpic fraîcheur]

Livingstone rank :

Oh cool !
You riped the sprite of Rayman 1 to create this ?

[PluMGMK]

Humph, my Tily rank died. I'd better upload it to my own server:

[Master]

Speaking of broken ranks, the transparency on some them also seems to have gone kaput, so to speak.

[rolesfamily]

Humph, my Tily rank died. I'd better upload it to my own server:

I can accept that rank now just because you said it was on the Rayman Zone

[PluMGMK]

I don't know if it was actually, but it was definitely here for a long time.

[rolesfamily]

I don't know if it was actually, but it was definitely here for a long time.

YOU RUINED MY DREAMS

[Master]

Here's another one for the archive:

[rolesfamily]

Now that's a cool one. I feel like destroying black lums already.

[PluMGMK]

Not destroying, converting.