The Swarm on wplace — Megathread

[snow urchin]

Which project?

Cerber?

[lofty birch]

Nah, some personal ones including some neuro related. Im just on a finals hell week to convert and defiddle stuff

tbh if any pixels needed in PH, MY, DE, and UK, ill just place it just to farm droplets.

[viral stag]

Did something change with wplace's captchas? I feel like I'm getting much less of them

[next timber]

100%

You can use pixels all day long and not get a captcha now for some reason

I think it happened today or yesterday

[viral stag]

It probably was yesterday, I think yesterday I also wasn't getting them

[glacial salmon]

oh yeah true i didnt pay attention but theyre not as pushy about it now

[slender dust]

Can I get a little bit of advice? How do you put a highlight on text in a pixel canvas?

I decided to change the "press the button" question into something Cerber related and want to try and make it look nice

[stuck shale]

maybe do text shadow like neuro tweet

[blissful breach]

yeah was about to say that

its just you gotta use a different font basically

find some good pixel art that has something you like and copy it

[slender dust]

Bro, I spent all day mathing it out and counting pixels to make that question be perfectly centered, and now I need to change the font?

[blissful breach]

if you want it to look a certain way yeah

I'd recommend just writing it out on gimp or something then overlaying a template

[rocky sluice]

^ , gotta draw it out first in gimp/krita/aseprite

unless u got alot of pixels to work it for experimenting it firsthand on canvas.

[glacial salmon]

i use a pokemon font in art program lol

[slender dust]

Is this kind of working or am I coping right now?

[blissful breach]

you're probably gonna need a bigger gap between all the text since it'll just look like its colliding most likely

its why I said test it in gimp first and see how it looks

[slender dust]

I'm just gonna play around with it and see what I can do, I'm not moving that text after how many times I had to redo it already to center it xd

[rocky sluice]

What do we think about this y'all

[glacial salmon]

👀

[snow urchin]

we can recreate a smaller scale of it

[prime sand]

real size or sized down?

[glacial salmon]

lots of room in the ocean for scaled down recreation

[snow urchin]

realistically you size it down

if you somehow covered europe it would look like a void at any zoom level

[rocky sluice]

real size complete utter domination

[glacial salmon]

like this

[rocky sluice]

hmm could be a good legit idea for an art template if scaled down.

will keep this one in mind

[snow urchin]

I have an idea

you know the europe recreation near evil's dogs? let's put it near it

[rocky sluice]

gonna need to cut it out a little bit to remove the unneeded parts

[stuck shale]

[snow urchin]

someone slept

[glacial salmon]

days like that make me want to push to 2k lol

especially if im ever needing a personal sick day where i stay in bed

[snow urchin]

you guys are rich

[next timber]

It's so tempting

[woeful ginkgo]

i put everything into storage

as I have to take fairly large breaks

[urban yew]

I also put most of it in storage, because I rarely have time to place

[slender dust]

I think I've figured out what is probably the most basic concept in pixel art

[earnest basalt]

⛷️ 💨

[obtuse jewel]

man i love swarm

[next timber]

I bet you do

[obtuse jewel]

󠄀

-# ive listened to 8k mins of mini and only ~600 of twins i needa rebalance my music cuz theyre amazing too

[slender dust]

Pretty sure for both communities it's mutual

Pet the Minawan.

[obtuse jewel]

-# ok ik minawan been using your planka like its a playground but we wanna ask if we can do wan more thing 󠄀thats kinda a reach with it
-# ||wan of the main portions for the point nemo project is the fact that we'll be adding minawan onto the build too (if you have a minasona or wanna make wan info here #1407450094499926027 message ). on that note though, we wanted to ask if we could use another card (or repurpose the current card) to essentially be a centerground for all the info. we'd put all the minawan templates on a separate location (probably dropbox/mega) to save planka space but we wanted to ask if we could use the card's description & comments to organize which minawan/contributor is doing what (just so we can keep track on progress that wont rely on wan person constantly editing a message on discord, especially if they arent available). ||
-# pls feel free to deny this very likely misuse of the board but either way, tysm for helping out so much because theres no amount of thanks to show how grateful we are

[undone frigate]

id be super happy to work on stuff i think keeping it in the same post would be best since people probably had that open last and can navigate it easier

[woeful ginkgo]

I dont mind if you do that at all! Planka is meant to be used, and im not that worried about storage

we have plenty of room to work with, and I can always increase it

[next timber]

1. This is probably just me, but tbh I have a hard time reading small text
2. I think you can use our planka in any way you like, swarm will be happy to work on our friends' projects

[woeful ginkgo]

Aslong as it wont get you banned here, its going to be fine

[obtuse jewel]

sounds good, tysm for letting us use the planka and ty wance more for all your help 󠄀

[woeful ginkgo]

Also better solution to account registration coming soon!

[next timber]

I didn't want to ask this, but I'll ask anyway just in case. Are there any planka backups? Since anyone can go into planka and delete all the projects, I sometimes worry a little that some sort of hater or troll might get in and do bad things

[woeful ginkgo]

Yes, daily backups

Not originally, but someone asked

[obtuse jewel]

honestly its not even about storage, its just cuz we dont want to nuke the card with over 33 images/templates (and counting)
-# we might just add it all into the current template too, just really depends on how planning right now goes.

[next timber]

If you currently have 33 templates, you can combine them into one and add them to planka, or add them one by one as you progress.

[stuck shale]

wrong colors

koko

[next timber]

I see only one wrong pixel

[stuck shale]

i turned off all colors

[obtuse jewel]

original plan was guerilla placing (someone chooses a minawan to make and just lets us know, they also get freedom of placement) but we dont know how that might turn up (double placement, doubling up, overlapping, etc). so we might just end up making one template with preselected placements so /shrug

[stuck shale]

they're really hard to see

[next timber]

I wonder how this happened, I definitely edited template with wplace palette

I will fix this

[next timber]

I have no idea where other 43 wrong colors

[stuck shale]

just throw the template in color converter

[next timber]

Some of the pixels I fixed were incorrectly detected by the converter. Not that it matters in a 120k pixels picture, but still

I'll throw this into converter anways, since I don't see any other solution.

new template for koko

In addition to adapting colors to wplace palette, I also recolored some noisy pixels, so we now have some work to correct "mistakes"

[woeful ginkgo]

With the new account creation system, I need a TOS/Privacy policy, and was making sure this is fine before I use it, anyone have any problems with it?
https://legal.nagol12344.tech/swplace/

[snow urchin]

what do you think?

[woeful ginkgo]

are we going through that other road?

[snow urchin]

I want to make a "jump" over

[fallow pollen]

No glaring loopholes or faults, good enough

[woeful ginkgo]

its mostly AI nonsense, but it should work fine

[fallow pollen]

Never really figured out how the "we cannot be legally charged for your problems" disclosure works exactly but I guess it works

[woeful ginkgo]

I don't think it does

im pretty sure internationally its useless, might work in the US

[fallow pollen]

Even then I guess you are protected by the relevant international internet law

[woeful ginkgo]

I think the Privacy Poilcy is more broad then it should be, I really dont store much

[snow urchin]

at our current pace this road is gonna take a few months oop

[woeful ginkgo]

ive been helping at point nemo

[fallow pollen]

Absolute bwaa

[snow urchin]

fair

approx 2 months

so see you all in 2 months (or more if people stop helping ig)

it's so far

[fallow pollen]

💔

i might jump to finish other locations if this takes too long ig

[snow urchin]

fair

I'm going to work on this regardless of if anyone helps or not
but since i'm basically doing the outline of the road + a few decorations, people seem to like to fill the road in

[fallow pollen]

that might be a better play

since the other hair road already pulls people in

[snow urchin]

honestly i might be spending more on making those small islands than the actual road lol

[fallow pollen]

lmao

[rocky sluice]

Joining in

[next timber]

It means super secret project is finished?

[rocky sluice]

very close

it's like 5k or less pixels from finishing

I think the miniwan peeps got that handled

[snow urchin]

[rocky sluice]

I'm ngl, other then the linework, this looks defiddled to me

kinda tempted to relabel this

[next timber]

I tried my best with editing, but most of the shadows, especially on the curved lines, were left almost untouched (I only recolored the most noisy pixels), I don't think it can be called defiddled, but I'm glad that it almost looks like that to you

[woeful ginkgo]

i have found a solution

[rocky sluice]

that works for me!

[stuck shale]

does this project get abandoned?

[snow urchin]

invalid?

[stuck shale]

no template

[next timber]

@earnest wagon

[woeful ginkgo]

its all miniwan/swarm!!!

[snow urchin]

I mean you guys are like slightly away from point nemo so nobody is there

[woeful ginkgo]

well true

[snow urchin]

looks like the top people in the cdawg canvas area are... the people building the pipe?

looks like a pipe

[next timber]

top-16 this month in 3 days

[snow urchin]

I mean he's literally 10 people

equivalence

[woeful ginkgo]

Would the road be cheaper in pixels as a train line?

[snow urchin]

I mean yeah?

[next timber]

probably, but it's therapy road, not therapy train line (sounds funny though)

[woeful ginkgo]

I thought we did a train line somewhere else, I may be wrong

[snow urchin]

random guess, maybe 20-30% cheaper

we have one in hq

[woeful ginkgo]

oh, so not actually to anywhere

nevermind then

[snow urchin]

It's to uh... evil's dogs iirc

[woeful ginkgo]

oh, just hasnt gotten there yet

[snow urchin]

getting there

it's also a rail just floating lol

[fallow pollen]

i can fit so much stuff in 128x128

[snow urchin]

that's a lot of pixels

[fallow pollen]

i chose 128x128 for the road mega-template

its turning out to be the perfect size

ive put in all common variants of roads, turns and junctions, now im putting in the tunnels

[snow urchin]

I hope we can zoom into it well enough to see individual pixels

I think it would be nice to still keep the tunnels as useable templates, at least

[fallow pollen]

i mean you can also put the thing into bluemarble, although it would take a bit to align it

[snow urchin]

at that point we can just write the offset you need to align it

[fallow pollen]

you also need to rotate the template to achieve the desired angle

[rocky sluice]

In the next few days, I will most likely be making a massive push for #1 ranking in all-time leaderboard.

So if u guys got any defiddled large artworks for me to do, please put it in planka, otherwise. I will be working on therapy road or something (leave outlines so i can just fill in)

[fallow pollen]

because im not gonna put all possible angles

[rocky sluice]

I just broke through 1.4million today.

[snow urchin]

oop I guess it's time to start mass outlining the road

[fallow pollen]

does bluemarble allow for template rotation or do you gotta do that yourself

[snow urchin]

I think you do it yourself

I just made copies rotated 90 degrees

[fallow pollen]

yeah

[woeful ginkgo]

rotating pixels is hard, its not going to do that for you

[fallow pollen]

although im pretty sure most computers allow you to rotate an image by 90 degrees

which is all that is needed

[woeful ginkgo]

that should be easy for it to do

but iirc it doesnt save the image file

[snow urchin]

not like it is hard to just press rotate again

a few times

[rocky sluice]

be careful not to randomly rotate stuff by just a few degrees.

[fallow pollen]

as long as you rotate it by a multiple of 90 it doesnt explode

[snow urchin]

well my computer by default rotates by 90 degrees

I guess you're only going to work on defiddled art or simple stuff like the roads for the sake of your fingers

[obtuse jewel]

part wan of semi-secret art at point nemo completed

ty all so much for the help, wouldnt have been able to get this completed nearly as quickly without all of yall

[red sage]

i wonder if the mal poster is still there

[obtuse jewel]

-# especially vio with the holy amount of pixels

[snow urchin]

I bet if you throw up a template of something new vio can finish it in a day

[rocky sluice]

certainly, if it is defiddled

[red sage]

[snow urchin]

I honestly do not get the mal lore

[red sage]

clearly you havent met mal

[rocky sluice]

there was only a few periods where I spent 7 hours straight just pixelling on wplace. Like only 2 or 3 times, and within those periods. I managed to pixel out over 100k pixels within one day.

I made a challenge finish out several big artworks at once. (It was hella tiring, even when it is defiddled )

3 hours in, I started to see pixels move by themselves, and started to shitmiss alot by accident due to that

[snow urchin]

the pixels

https://tenor.com/view/venom-gif-27487650

[next timber]

Vio is limited not by the pixel limit, but by human capabilities

[snow urchin]

gotta get those mod tools to fill a large portion at once

all gms are brazilian tho

[obtuse jewel]

vio sry for asking but genuinely curious do u have like inf pixels? p2w? cuz holyyyy insane pixel amount

looked at all time lb and saw u were number 2 like whatttttt

[glacial salmon]

ps2

p2w even

i can type

playstation 2

[snow urchin]

mhm he uses a playstation 2 to mass produce droplets

[obtuse jewel]

playstation 2 strat needa get more info on this asap

[snow urchin]

you gotta ask these top playstationers I guess

[rocky sluice]

at one point, I had 3.2million droplets. actually did this for future wplace event canvases but eh , since I'm in the swarm now, there's no point in participating in these event areas.

So I just started using it for swarm art stuff.

[woeful ginkgo]

planka is about to go down for a update

[snow urchin]

that is a lot of pixels of droplets

[woeful ginkgo]

this is going to take a second...

[obtuse jewel]

i see theres a lot of ppl who helped out with the sorta secret project. if you would like to add your name to the point nemo contribution list, pls feel free to do so (at the bottom of the smile poster)
tysm wance more for all the help youve given

[blissful breach]

okay THIS time I think its dead

@woeful ginkgo

[snow urchin]

look up

[woeful ginkgo]

.

[snow urchin]

like

5 messages

[woeful ginkgo]

😭

[blissful breach]

ah is that's what its about

didn't know it was related

someone give me a project please

before I sleep

[woeful ginkgo]

the road

fill it in
https://wplace.live/?lat=39.245527562024634&lng=-38.860576503222674&zoom=15.690755545205661

[snow urchin]

expand it too if possible... I might have made a bit too big of an island here so it might be a bit before I can keep extending it

I see it has been expanded a lot on the other side, too

[blissful breach]

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh fine

[woeful ginkgo]

im working on update

seems it didnt work at all

[blissful breach]

should I expand the grey on the sides more? earlier road parts don't include it

I'm guessing just for the diagonal

[snow urchin]

it's like that for diagonals

at least in the ones I referenced

when in doubt, reference hq roads

there is pretty much every type of road there

[woeful ginkgo]

so planka works

but it doesnt seem to have updated

[rocky sluice]

huh

how does that happen

[woeful ginkgo]

i have no clue

rererestoring from backup!

if anyone wants all the image files planka has:

[rocky sluice]

one day, eventually, that will grow to 1GB of just swarm templates

[woeful ginkgo]

well its so big that the panel wont decompess without timing out

[woeful ginkgo]

PLANKA IS BACK UP!!!!!

never updating it again
-# its 2:00am for me

Planka now has discord auth, you can link your account in settings

[obtuse jewel]

woahhhh swarm planka has a legal team

damn ok then

pack it up yall we all banned from the planka

[next timber]

Except Shiro

[obtuse jewel]

common shiro w
-# happy birthday shiro!

[fallow pollen]

[Insert Website URL]

[fallow pollen]

@woeful ginkgo we're all banned from using the planka, help

[obtuse jewel]

i actually live in the state that section 13 mentions

-# sry for actually going thru the terms i couldnt help myself, much love

[fallow pollen]

The 130 years of age error is actually there lmao

[fleet field]

griefer

smh

[fallow pollen]

Who tf is eshan

[rocky sluice]

130 years of age, so only shiro can access it

[fleet field]

help fill in

for the neuro creds

stuff

thanks

https://wplace.live/?lat=1.3482059773938047&lng=103.39760709052732&zoom=13.422851146056077

they allowed me to erase

the coords

[fallow pollen]

What creds do we put in though

[fleet field]

thats for later ig

[prime sand]

https://wplace.live/?lat=28.67030871914515&lng=-96.28655306572266&zoom=14.109085067438563
DONE

[fallow pollen]

🥀

[chrome mural]

I just realized that I have no clue what to do with the skin

[flint cedar]

Beige

[fleet field]

tan him

[vale girder]

Bleach(white) 'im

[undone frigate]

honestly just do it white 😭

[chrome mural]

the eye tho

[undone frigate]

hmmmm

light grey ✊ he is in his zombie era

mannn it feels good to place pixels in the uk again i get some pickles back

[flint cedar]

Make him green

[lofty birch]

The original pic is pale lol. Probably just copy the prominent color

[woeful ginkgo]

What

How???

[fallow pollen]

@woeful ginkgo In your terms of service, on the site, the minimum age you have declared is 130 years
The world record for oldest person is 122 years, so technically literally no one alive can use the site

[woeful ginkgo]

Oh

[fallow pollen]

We're not actually banned from the site, just technically

[woeful ginkgo]

I just woke up and thought there was a real issue 😭

[snow urchin]

Except shiro

[woeful ginkgo]

Isn't it the greatest state!

[chrome mural]

somebody should've told me about this

[glacial salmon]

i think it's at least been mentioned in this thread like 5 times

equip just means it's on display

[chrome mural]

he's getting un-fried

also what color is this supposed to be

[fallow pollen]

ok chat

i did it

can someone go to planka and get the 128x128 (not HD) template, i wanna see if bluemarble accepts it

[woeful ginkgo]

seems to work

ignore the red, im highlighting some colors

[fallow pollen]

Yay

[snow urchin]

I love how mcneuros is a template item

[fallow pollen]

There was a 35x40 empty space I had to do it

[lofty birch]

That kind of green but much darker or muddy?? Probably that i guess

[lofty birch]

Glad we have a standardized lettering. Im kinda doing signs as a side thing. Especially in HQ

[glacial salmon]

id assume the og image was a low saturation green, like a green grey
so personally id choose one of the greys for the defiddling

[snow urchin]

we do but it's not the end of the world if you don't I suppose

[fallow pollen]

yeah that was one of the things i wanted to add lmao

seems my random guess pick of 128x128 was perfect

Also I pray that people figure out the missing texture block in the roundabout is supposed to imply you can put your own thing there

[snow urchin]

[rocky sluice]

got it, missing texture block is apart of the roundabout

[fallow pollen]

It's only gonna be funny one time 💔

[snow urchin]

I mean it would work if you put it in theswarm

[viral stag]

This looks like sweeping dust away

[snow urchin]

the duster is working!

[chrome mural]

uhhhh vio wtf

[rocky sluice]

[zealous ginkgo]

i just back is planka dead or just my internet

[woeful ginkgo]

sorry

hosting service did some maintence stuff and it broke

[zealous ginkgo]

oh ok

[woeful ginkgo]

database seems fucked

[woeful ginkgo]

there isnt a way to recover this

[glacial salmon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1067638175478071307/1416146838934782053/neuro-Im_crying.gif

[woeful ginkgo]

Well... New planka is up!

all accounts are gone

-# fjs;dkjf;asldjfk;alsdkjfaksufdhlkadjfhlakshakisdvblasdfbasljdhvbkhafvb

[undone frigate]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/689105710218346565/1371108915328188526/EvilIUH_1.gif

crashing out

[snow urchin]

sooo
I guess we have to restore it?

[woeful ginkgo]

unfortuatually

[blissful breach]

hopefully someone has an archive of the old site

[woeful ginkgo]

I have all the old images

thats about it

[snow urchin]

so the backups are gone too?

[woeful ginkgo]

So, about the backups

[snow urchin]

[woeful ginkgo]

I wasnt backing up the database, just the planka files...

(this is all completely my fault)

[obtuse jewel]

honestly dont blame urself, its kinda our fault too that we were relying on you to single handedly hold up everything. in fact, thank you for all that you were doing to help, genuinely cant bring into words how appreciate we are of you.
-# if you need any help with restoring the cards/origin points for descriptions from the currently backed up files, pls ask cuz i think many of us would love to help out with that. just dont put too much pressure on yourself

[torn phoenix]

restore, as in register again or log in with prev credentials?

[stuck shale]

register

[snow urchin]

well everything

[woeful ginkgo]

discord auth should also work nope

[snow urchin]

we need to remake the whole thing

I had trouble with discord auth

[stuck shale]

nothing ever happened

[snow urchin]

nagol can you send the images again?

[valid sun]

do you happen to have the fucked database files? mabe there's a way to recover at least something?

[woeful ginkgo]

I have them, but the file structure cant be in any way repaired where postgress will accept it

I have a bunch of files of strings, but I cant go through them all

[valid sun]

strange

I don't suppose you'd upload those too?

[woeful ginkgo]

will take me a bit

[next timber]

Do we need to register again or should we wait for now?

[woeful ginkgo]

You need to register again

[obtuse jewel]

-# if it makes your lives easier pls feel free to skip the point nemo stuff rn, i needa reorganize some of the cards for it anyways and i can restore those at a later time

[stuck shale]

i removed cerber poster

[snow urchin]

i'll add some stuff back when i'm done my work

[torn phoenix]

is machine love art supposed to appear twice?

[snow urchin]

there are three machine love arts on planka

[torn phoenix]

k

[snow urchin]

one WIP (large) and two finished

[zealous ginkgo]

i think this one is sg qrcode for join our Alliance that we don't use so i going to delete it ok

[next timber]

I'll start restoring wplace links and coords, I think it will take a long time

[stuck shale]

idk which one is in progress lol

[woeful ginkgo]

I may be able to get some of the old text back, still working on jt

[zealous ginkgo]

I want to help more but i need to go to do test it uni bye guy

[snow urchin]

if you can find it (i forget where it is), overlay it over the template

[torn phoenix]

im not sure what happened here, the hat doesn't seem to match what's on the canvas

neither og art matches it

[stuck shale]

probably old template

[torn phoenix]

the hat is presumably an update of some sort

[next timber]

It's fine, I updated this template myself a thousand years ago, if necessary, I can restore it

[valid sun]

why are they txt files... those are supposed to be raw binary files

[woeful ginkgo]

the way I exported them changed their name, dont pay attention to that

[valid sun]

the way you exported them also removed all bytes that don't correspond to characters...

[woeful ginkgo]

ill grab the real files, one second

[valid sun]

ideally you'd grab the entire data directory

[next timber]

My prayers for the restoration of text

[stuck shale]

holy

[woeful ginkgo]

im finding some text with grep

[valid sun]

do you also happen to have the pg_wal and pg_xact directories to go with this

[woeful ginkgo]

I believe so

[valid sun]

okay so for an easier time, can you just grab the entire data directory with everything that's in it, with all the pg_ directories and files, and upload that?

[woeful ginkgo]

yep, can do

[fallow pollen]

Ill restore the road templates

There's like one pixel I wanted to fix

[torn phoenix]

i think we weren't using headquarters and UK labels together

[next timber]

We used them together

[valid sun]

hm

hey @woeful ginkgo , the database seems fine to me... it loads just fine

[woeful ginkgo]

wtf

it complained about missing files and wouldnt start

[valid sun]

what missing files?

missing directories like pg_notify, pg_twophase and such?

[woeful ginkgo]

"pg_notify"

yes

[valid sun]

okay so what you gotta do is create those directories manually in the data directory, bc postgres is stupid and for some reason won't create them for you

[woeful ginkgo]

...

[next timber]

and then everything will be restored?

[valid sun]

should be, if nothing else got screwed up

[next timber]

[woeful ginkgo]

one moment

[stuck shale]

i'm free

[valid sun]

oh yeah, I also have everyone's session tokens

[woeful ginkgo]

yeaaa

ill break those aswell

[valid sun]

please do a nice DELETE FROM session when you restart the server

then again it looks like all the sessions are marked deleted as of yesterday so should be fine

[fleet field]

wow

malicious

[valid sun]

oh yeah, I'm totally gonna go into all the cards and misspell some words under specifically your account

[fleet field]

targeted malicious behavior

[next timber]

so evil

[woeful ginkgo]

session tokens nuked

[valid sun]

[woeful ginkgo]

im not that much of a idiot

it works!!!

[next timber]

[valid sun]

yay

[next timber]

WE ARE SO BACK

phew it was scary

[valid sun]

welp, time to nuke the temporary db I stood up for this

[woeful ginkgo]

thanks daavko for saving us

[valid sun]

you're welcome

[woeful ginkgo]

oh yea sorry, you cant use it anymore, legal requirements

[undone frigate]

goddamn it now my age is out there

[next timber]

thanks Nagol for your work too

[rocky sluice]

Daavko really coming in clutch with the web tech save

[fallow pollen]

ok chat i fixed the template, now to transfer to my phone

what happened while i was sleeping

[undone frigate]

planka did a poop the pants but i think its saved now

[next timber]

Koko almost finished btw

[fallow pollen]

nyan

[next timber]

98%

[undone frigate]

mannn i wanted to see koko finished before sleep but i dont think its gonna happen lmao. i should mimir 😩

yeahhhhhh

[stuck shale]

2k pixels

[undone frigate]

dude i was like ok lemme finish pxl art and then sleep and now im sat here doing koko 💀

[next timber]

@rocky sluice can you help rosiee go to sleep a little bit faster?

[undone frigate]

lmaooo its fine tbf i have 20k droplets i could lowkey finish it but idk i keep thinking of getting a rus flag since we have a lot of art there

[stuck shale]

i'm placing dark red

[next timber]

Don't waste droplets on a nearly finished project. If you look at it from the other side, you'll wake up and see a finished koko

[rocky sluice]

okay

[undone frigate]

ya my brain is silly like this

a touch of the tism i fear 😔

[next timber]

[undone frigate]

its been so long since i placed in the uk i missed the flag buff so bad

[next timber]

I always try to start new projects in UK after the previous ones are completed, but swarm works too fast and I just don’t have time

[undone frigate]

ya id be super happy to work on more uk stuff i quite like the flag buff 😭

[snow urchin]

I mean you can buy another flag

[undone frigate]

yeah but theres so many places we have things

idk where id even get it for. the only place i can really think is russia

maybe usa i guess works too

[snow urchin]

I mean if you help with a big project a flag works out

[undone frigate]

yeah thats true theres the huge vedal poster being worked on in russia rn so thats why i was gonna do that

[snow urchin]

O.o

[undone frigate]

yippeee koko don

[snow urchin]

are many people working on that

[next timber]

[snow urchin]

last I checked it was like 2 people

[undone frigate]

not that i know of

idk i like vedal art

[snow urchin]

ok I see progress

much more compared to last I check

I also see a bunch of names

[rocky sluice]

[snow urchin]

once finished that will be the biggest finished swarm art tho

[undone frigate]

ya im ngl i tried to load the template in and my browser crashed so i gotta do it in parts 😩 haha

[rocky sluice]

now that koko art completed, i mah focus on putting some pixels for the lattice on pxls canvas. then I will see what other things to do in planka before dumping pixels into the road art. (I only want to work on semi-fiddled/defiddled artworks)

[snow urchin]

there are multiple roads

[undone frigate]

ok you gotta be freaking joking me 😭

is this a uk thing?

[snow urchin]

rosie what you doin

[undone frigate]

gee gee cant load imgur

[woeful ginkgo]

Yes

[undone frigate]

im trying to do the thing on the thing 😔

[woeful ginkgo]

iirc Imgur shows that for any image if you are in the UK

[undone frigate]

i cant open the cropped parts

[woeful ginkgo]

Try pasting the links into discorf

[undone frigate]

dude i HATE this uk law man

https://i.imgur.com/VUdkAoZ.png

ok you know what imma crash out i hate this country

[snow urchin]

so dithered

[woeful ginkgo]

I don't live in the UK and I hate it

[snow urchin]

wait imgur is blocked in uk?

[woeful ginkgo]

Yes

[undone frigate]

EVERYTHING IS

ITS SO ANNOYING

[snow urchin]

[woeful ginkgo]

Because of requiring ID to access any website with user generated content

[undone frigate]

my friend sent me a dress she wanted website blocked cuz they sell underwear

like are we deadass

[rocky sluice]

try use imageshack

[undone frigate]

i couldnt order some nailcare stuff cuz it had a blade in one of the things and i needed to verify i was over 18 on their page and they didnt have the service for it

[rocky sluice]

or postimage

[next timber]

why tf imgur blocked in uk? 💀

[undone frigate]

i shall work on ved top corner

[rocky sluice]

https://postimages.org/

yup imgur is banned from UK

[undone frigate]

its blocked cuz what if theres something under 18s shouldnt see :o

[rocky sluice]

due to the new safety laws

implemented

[undone frigate]

the most annoying part is i had a HUGE mudae backlog of like god 1000s of images for characters on imgur 😩

[rocky sluice]

unfortunate

@

[undone frigate]

ya its whatever you essentially need to use a VPN 24/7 in the uk or you just cant access shit

[rocky sluice]

@stuck shale the Mini505 art is ready to go?

like actually ready?

[stuck shale]

yep

[rocky sluice]

will be dumping my pixels into that soon

[stuck shale]

i don't think there are any wrong pixels

[next timber]

@rocky sluice Where can I see all the Swarm art from cdawg canvas? I'd like to recreate all big arts from there to UK.

[rocky sluice]

hmm

ngl, that's a really big ask. don't be surprised if no one wants to help you with this.

lmao

but I can get another swarm council to help you with this if they want to.

do keep in mind, it's alot

[rocky sluice]

@lavish sierra , do you wanna help narso get just all the swarm art from cdawg canvas?

[snow urchin]

I'm sure people want to do it though

[next timber]

I would be grateful. I don't know how difficult it will be to adapt the colors, but I hope I can manage

[rocky sluice]

I meant as in, going back in history just to grab the swarm templates for it. (alot of the imgur links for these templates has expired, which means it is not retrievable)

so the only way to get past templates in cdawg canvas now was to go through old snapshots that only a few council members have. one of them, being dragon.

The only other time someone had asked for this, no one really wanted to go sifting past old snapshots except dragon

[snow urchin]

oh the council doesn't want to

[rocky sluice]

I mean, unless u wanna sift through hundreds of old snapshots and individually crop them out, be my guest

also not everyone has the old snapshots of cdawg canvas, actually, I think only dragon has it lmao

[snow urchin]

[rocky sluice]

Fyi, for the Mini505 template, it was updated once more to make sure that any potential unconverted colors are fixed.

Make sure to check the planka if u are working on Mini505 art

oooooo I just saw your trick or treat neuro how big is it? @torn phoenix

OH

it's already in progress

[torn phoenix]

it's quite small, even with a 2x upscale

[viral stag]

It's slowly taking shape

Only 3 million left

Hmm, it's the second time I disconnect from the Plank without logging out

[next timber]

things happened

[snow urchin]

just a few

you're lucky you missed it then

[fallow pollen]

ok chat

who wants to do the very fun activity of figuring out the offset for every single item in the road template

[snow urchin]

maybe like

after my next exam

[fallow pollen]

actually i can do this in piskel itself lmao

[snow urchin]

oh wait after my next next exam

[fallow pollen]

the cursor has x y value

ill do it later

ill do it when people start complaining

[blissful breach]

oh 3 new templates

yay

[next timber]

artist of Koko art

[rocky sluice]

@fallow pollen @snow urchin The person working on the caelan artwork seperate from the endcollab, which u guys have noticed.

Has a request regarding the planned road. The guy is still in time out from neurocord due to his account getting hacked. It will be awhile before he is able to chat here normally again. So I'm forwarding his messages for him.

[snow urchin]

sure!

that was more like a random line I quickly made to give a general sense of where to go

I added a note on the planka

[rocky sluice]

[fallow pollen]

ic

[tropic elk]

Pretty sure jack made an archive with most if not all swarm art

(another council member)

Yeah it's in the archive section below all of the other channels

[next timber]

I don't see it

[rocky sluice]

oh bright is referring to a different server

I see what he means

I'll dm u narso

[tropic elk]

I mean they're in that server but don't have the perms to see it :mahiro:

[rocky sluice]

makes sense, narso barely chatted in the other server

[next timber]

nah bro, I was very active, you just ignored me all this time

[lofty birch]

Revisiting some old scribbles, the original neuro pear is still standing.

[dapper escarp]

Who's pixelfox? Is it alright to paint over this?

[woeful ginkgo]

If it doesnt follow the template, just paint over it

They aren't in the faction so it should be fine

[gloomy ravine]

I made a template that seems to match what's already painted in case anyone wants to finish that abandoned project
https://swplace2.nagol12344.tech/cards/1601997678533674829

Is there any new road development that needs to be put on a map?

[fallow pollen]

not that we know of

cdawg canvas road is taking a while

ill help a bit and then move on

[naive vector]

@versed swan dude or wtv do u have a template of this?

Its been got by a random user with no discord and pre-generated name

In sg at https://wplace.live/?lat=1.3775531414230233&lng=103.79645474677733&zoom=12.708890081654175

[muted sail]

lvl 300

[rocky sluice]

congratulations!

[fleet field]

@fallow pollen new maimai buddy

[fallow pollen]

Whar

[fleet field]

theyre in the maimai server

not freedom

the user he pinged

[fallow pollen]

Hmmm

[fallow pollen]

What brand of Roomba are you using

[lofty birch]

very cool, same as you

[rocky sluice]

Congrats to you as well!

[torn phoenix]

apparently swarm spedran this piece, so there's one less artwork to dump vio's infinite pixels into

thank you though

[rocky sluice]

It's all good, I'm still doing my thing on pxls. not yet done.

I will place down my stacks of pixels onto wplace projects I'm interested in from the planka afterwards

that is the plan

[plucky current]

london smug neuro needs some repairs

Fixed

[chrome mural]

out of curiosity how many pixels do you have?

[rocky sluice]

Like my max charge limit/current pixel count? here

for how much droplets I have to convert into pixels, I'll let you know later

I plan to take over the #1 ranking on the all-time leaderboard soon, so it's gotta be around 200k pixels worth of droplets

[zealous ginkgo]

What do you guy think is it good enough

[valid sun]

single-handedly keeping the lights on for wplace devs

[rocky sluice]

it looks fantastic!

[rocky sluice]

if that's the final version, let me help you make sure there's no unconverted colors left over

[zealous ginkgo]

this one is final

[rocky sluice]

thank you! give me a sec

[rocky sluice]

Alright done! this is completely converted and there should be zero unconverted colors

[valid sun]

man, it'd be great if I was able to open that in an image editor and highlight stuff, bc I can see a couple things that could use some touch-ups

[rocky sluice]

feel free to set up the planka with this

[valid sun]

unfortunately I'm still at work rn so I'll just try to remember to do it later

[zealous ginkgo]

you can touch up and update it on planka i going to finish mini 505 first before doing this one

[rocky sluice]

@valid sun aight, I will wait for your touchups then

[zealous ginkgo]

i made a card in Theorized if you finish touch-ups you can update it

[rocky sluice]

thank you!

[valid sun]

just so there's no misunderstanding, I won't be touching the art itself, I'll just be highlighting areas that could use improvement, nobody would actually gain anything if I just went in and "fixed" stuff

I just give tips, that's all

[fallow pollen]

thats 18kpx of road length

[rocky sluice]

[zealous ginkgo]

ok

[naive vector]

I finally caught them all

[rocky sluice]

congratulations!!

[fallow pollen]

Ok chat so

It might actually be possible to buy a flag for every future road location, provided the road is long enough

There is no good reason for doing this

[chrome mural]

The roomba will not be touching this one

also

[next timber]

My internet provider is trying to block VPN services again, and as a side effect, pxls and wplace stopped working for me

great

[chrome mural]

rip

[valid sun]

main thing, avoid jaggies like this, a curved line in the original should at least try to curve in the defiddle (doesn't apply to just this one spot, I can also see the same thing on Evil's ahoge in a few places on both Neuro's and Evil's hair and on Neuro's hand)

second thing, I'd at least try to do the eyes, from what I can see they're just left autoconverted, which ngl doesn't look the best...

[rocky sluice]

Pin is currently doing Part 4 video of the cdawg canvas, he needs us to wave in chat for the youtube video!

[lofty birch]

Good Morning
Also floating ship above a bridge.

[snow urchin]

maybe you should make the road broken there

[lofty birch]

Its maybe an alt or a non-ally to the swarm built it. Idk about your message would spread.

[snow urchin]

also lets go?

[rocky sluice]

oh wow, the other 'road' aka Hair faction is helping our roads out? that's neat

[snow urchin]

people can't resist filling in the road, clearly

[lofty birch]

people will just do it if you leave some sort of guide like a repeating pattern

[snow urchin]

wait this guy???

[rocky sluice]

he has been in the miku faction for quite some time, just let him be

they do their own thing, we do ours

[snow urchin]

[flint cedar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1415890542080032788/1416177738624270426/evil100stare.gif

[nocturne spindle]

Does this look like a good drawing to put on wplace? (This looks like that because It's my first time drawing Evil)

[rocky sluice]

I say, this is a pretty good attempt for your first time drawing evil , in my eyes. This would be good enough for Wplace

The money bag and the harpoon is a very nice touch

[flint cedar]

missing hairpin

[fallow pollen]

Z layer error, insane work

[snow urchin]

I mean could you do it? idk

pineapple... made some small vtuber art below the hq

don't think they are an alt

[lofty birch]

Ill try. I dont have much to place stuff right now.

[snow urchin]

so why is there a line of drones expanding endlessly down lol

[zealous ginkgo]

is the hair look better

[fallow pollen]

@snow urchin so... what now

[snow urchin]

then we go left side of hatsune discord hq downwards, go above the caelan art, then to osu

[fallow pollen]

hmmm

user calleri> #403 seems to be a GM too but is not in GM alliance

[lavish sierra]

I have snapshots of everything but I gave up on organizing them during the canvas. If you know what you want I can probably find it.

[obtuse jewel]

they ended up in point nemo too, 99% a gm since they did also renuke some art another gm had already nuked

[snow urchin]

#403 is very early

[stuck shale]

:MyHonestReaction: i'll fix it after it's done so you guys don't have to update the template every 12 hours

[summer mortar]

Should we get rid of the join Swarm qr code at HQ, that feels like a bad idea to me tbh

It's way too easy to edit that without people noticing, especially on this canvas

Though I would like to make it a neuro rickroll link just once

[stuck shale]

i don't have pixels

[warped saffron]

hello peoples, any chance you have a specific project that needs help currently?

[warped saffron]

i have 556 currently ready, is it on the planka?

[stuck shale]

yes

it's in needs maintenance list

[summer mortar]

Woah I just saw the plans for Hatsune Discord, OSU, and HQ therapy road linkage, I've been expecting therapy road to start discarding the tunnel idea for a while but it's crazy to see it actually happening for the first time

That'll take a while for sure, very cool though

[fallow pollen]

the tunnel idea will still be mainstream for a while though

mainly because it will take forever

[summer mortar]

Yeah, the idea of physical roads will probably only exist for either extremely close allies or places we practically consider a second HQ if one ever comes up

[fallow pollen]

if we were to untunnel the roads we would easily create a project larger than all the worldlines

[summer mortar]

I do at least hope the plans for this one get finished, it'll be pretty cool to have a real connection to OSU, it feels very fitting

Also is there a different OSU than the one at 727, the map for that project looks like it's wrong?

[fallow pollen]

there is more than one osu

[summer mortar]

Shouldn't we be building something by the OSU in the sacred coordinates?

[fallow pollen]

i would thiink that would be better

[summer mortar]

Here's where the correct OSU is as far as I'm aware

[gloomy ravine]

Not the first time, ru swarm already connected two cities in Russia with the biggest neuro artworks

[summer mortar]

Which cities, I wanna see that

[gloomy ravine]

https://wplace.live/?lat=55.70765416757949&lng=48.56668912177734&zoom=12.420672123239449
Just follow south

[summer mortar]

I mean, compared to the atlantic project that's not too big, probably a similar amount of road comparatively to what's been done in HQ, the main difference is that it's all one road instead of a system of roads

Still super impressive though

[gloomy ravine]

Relatively the same

[snow urchin]

there are multiple osus, the one I want to go to is just somewhat realistic vs the other osu (also that osu is also in a 727, ponta delega 727)

[summer mortar]

I do think we should at least have a tunnel to the OSU I showed, it's in the sacred coordinates after all, more so than any other 727 OSU

[snow urchin]

true

[fallow pollen]

there are so many possible 727s in wplace coordinate system anyway

[snow urchin]

but there's a neuro art at the nearby osu

[fallow pollen]

also we're kinda looking for neuro and related factions

[summer mortar]

But this is 727, 727, 727, 727

[snow urchin]

do we have one at the 727,727,727,727 osu?

[gloomy ravine]

@woeful ginkgo Is it a me problem that planka is sometimes timing out?

[woeful ginkgo]

I'm not aware of a issue atm

[summer mortar]

As of October 18th there's pretty much nothing around that OSU it appears

[snow urchin]

I just checked there is nothing there

[summer mortar]

Sadge

[woeful ginkgo]

I'll give it a quick restart and hope it fixes things

[snow urchin]

I also just realized the archive has a button to go to the place you are looking at

I was lining up the surrounding art before

[summer mortar]

I just saw this on the archive, what is happening over here

[snow urchin]

why is a place called portugal cove south in newfoundland

but more random swarm, huh?

oh one of them is in the discord

@near violet this is your art right? do you want to put it on the planka so other swarm members can help out or no?

[chrome mural]

imagine defiddling this

[fallow pollen]

Where do you start

[snow urchin]

getting there

[chrome mural]

I STILL don't know what to do with the skin

[snow urchin]

pick a colour ig

[chrome mural]

i will make him neon green

[gloomy ravine]

White usually works, other skin-adjacent colors not so much

[chrome mural]

I won't be doing this next

it's great as is

also based on the crumb neuro isn't eating the cookie she's just breaking it down

[snow urchin]

it's like cookie monster

[stuck shale]

https://tenor.com/view/consume-cardboard-box-cat-gif-25431281

[inland robin]

wplace gang, have some choccy milk https://youtu.be/vpbxvQoCeDo

[fallow pollen]

Full cookie → → infinite crumbs

[snow urchin]

infinite crumb glitch discovered

[woeful ginkgo]

I tried defiddling...

[rocky sluice]

most of the noise looks like it has been cleaned up , you are doing good so far, all u gotta do now is to improve on the outlines

[rocky sluice]

@flint cedar @valid sun any defiddling tips?

[valid sun]

improve the outlines and try to restore the details that got completely lost

for example the hair bows are just blobs of red now, I'm pretty sure they don't look like that in the original

[rustic bear]

Where can I see that map?

[woeful ginkgo]

https://swplace2.nagol12344.tech/cards/1591486167688152066

[rustic bear]

therapy road sounds so funny

[near violet]

oh i've been found out
i'm down to collaborate but for some reason the planka giving me an error when i try to create an account

[rustic bear]

yea that happen to me too, I just keep trying and in a random attemp it let me create the account

[rustic bear]

try using another browser

[near violet]

ayy edge worked

[rocky sluice]

I have a fun little plan cooked up for us on wplace. It is absolutely huge but it is also one of the most easiest things to do since it is upscaled and already defiddled from base source.

I'm just running it by some folks real quick before I put it on planka

It gonna be fun once it is set up cuz then we can run a semi-event by ourselves on wplace, somewhat near our HQ in UK.

[chrome mural]

fuck it good enough

[rocky sluice]

Part 4 of Cdawg canvas is up! Come show some support for Pin and starboard this message!

[slender dust]

@south halo Do you mind if I move this message you left over by Evils Dogs? I wanted to frame all the comments people left , but yours overlaps with the text in the template.

[past spade]

The suffering is almost completed...

Lesson to self: always defiddle before attempting to create it in wplace

[restive timber]

wtf i leave this place for few weeks and it goes from "whatever, defiddle is not worth it" to "always defiddle"

is this council propaganda

[torn phoenix]

[tough vine]

V.. oh wait, UK is suggesting VPN ban... damn this is hard

[valid sun]

yes, we've infiltrated wplace and we shall spread the word of defiddling

[fallow pollen]

the consequences of council entry into wplace involvement are many

firstly, defiddl© roomba budget has gone up by 450000%

ok now i need to defiddle a roomba and put it into wplace

god dammit

[restive timber]

Well defiddling is cool so keep going

[fallow pollen]

as it turns out wplace does not like it when you make a 1400 pixel long line

[slender dust]

Can anyone give a tutorial on how to defiddle when you have no artistic Talent? because I want to go back and high-res some of the things I've done at some point.

[flint cedar]

oh i thought its sticker, took me a moment to register it

Defiddling guide

basic guide
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NEX_O1TeyprmHE7QZobkJhRZ5L2vwjSNHYk4oCTI4HY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.mmz1607thysy

in depth guide
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xOiEvVMohd0teErCTASlEWQ0uXgQEfHp_DIYWMKMGEE/edit?tab=t.0

[flint cedar]

@meager tide get this pinned mabe

[past spade]

Quick question

Usually how long would it take for you to defiddle stuffs?

[fallow pollen]

in theory, not long
in practice,

[flint cedar]

for me, and depend on the piece, 12 and upward to 30+ hour

[slender dust]

For how big of an image?

[gusty dock]

Took me like 5-6h to do one small-ish with no background

[flint cedar]

20k size is usually around that 12h, 50k size is the range of 20+ hour

it all depend on the complexity

[slender dust]

So hypothetically, if you wanted to defiddle an image of this size, how long would you need?

[gusty dock]

Ye I did this one in like 6h but I pretty much skipped all details and did just the main shadows etc

[flint cedar]

i cant really say without knowing how complex it is, but something like that 12h range

[slender dust]

I can see why most people just let blue marble dither things instead xd

[summer mortar]

It depends on the complexity and what you’re willing to settle for tbh, if you want something that could stand next to an experienced defiddlers work then you’ll probably spend a lot of time learning and redoing stuff, but if you just want a defiddle then it can go faster

[valid sun]

it all comes down to the level of detail you want, simple flat-shaded art can be pretty quick since you "only" need to draw the outlines and bucket-fill the colors, but if you want more than that the time quickly climbs

[valid sun]

stuff like this is imo still miles better than having it a dithered mess

[slender dust]

Okay, I'm stupid so can I keep coming back to ask you guys for help?

I'm trying to defiddle an image and I've been through and removed all the background, what would be the next step?

[flint cedar]

what program are you using

[slender dust]

Right now Paint net I dont have any premium or paid art programs

[glacial salmon]

Honestly i convert the image then draw over it with wplace color pallet

To clean it up

[slender dust]

Basically, just find the closest colour and trace it one pixel at a time?

[sturdy monolith]

Yeah but if u convert it first its easier to group up the pixels me thinks

[valid sun]

I wouldn't convert it since converters tend to lose detail so you'd have to get the original anyway

but yeah, resize the original to size you want on the canvas, add new layer, and draw with wplace palette on that layer

[fallow pollen]

do not resize by non integer values

[valid sun]

also that image looks squished...

[valid sun]

that only applies to existing pixel art or defiddles

[fallow pollen]

yes

[valid sun]

the image above is neither

[fallow pollen]

resize it by a factor of pi

[slender dust]

It's from a screenshot; she was moving at the time so her model is mid-movement.

[valid sun]

I mean it looks horizontally squished... that can't happen due to movement

[woeful ginkgo]

oh they killed twitch login

thats annoying

[glacial salmon]

convert then place the original next to you so you can look to compare that's what I did for my emotes

[slender dust]

I'm testing a few things. I think the left twintail has been defiddled. Does that twintail look alright?

[flint cedar]

Paint net works just fine. You want to keep original pict as reference. using the downsize one is what I usually do too, but you need the original one to look what are you working on. From there you just trace it basically

[glacial salmon]

[flint cedar]

You mean the left to us, that looks alright

[slender dust]

Yeah our left lol

[rocky sluice]

Alright in regards to this, after sleeping. I have realized that making a poll for the public to choose is a better option.

Keep a heads up in the next 5-20mins. I need everyone to vote on the poll coming up. It will only last for a short while cuz I wanna get started on this soon

[undone frigate]

yeah cant even read manga on some sites anymore since they're just completely blocked

[flint cedar]

✍️ 🔥

[next timber]

[snow urchin]

[rocky sluice]

Alright, so here's the gist of the poll:

I will be starting a absolutely giga-sized arena just for us swarm to go crazy in, the arena border/frame size is 3727 x 2685. This is something we have done before on Cdawg canvas and prior canvases. It is true that the sizes for these are usually way smaller. However, since Wplace allows you to stack several thousands of pixels in one day, even as a free to play user. I decided to scale them in such a way that only an insane person like me (which there are none in the alliance) would even be able to put enough pixels in the arena play area to fill it up under a short amount of time

This Arena is designed for two purpose:

1. To start a semi-event for the swarm members to partake in whenever there are no currently on-going active projects they want to do on Planka, you can come in and drop your pixels to farm droplets while watching your favourite color dominate the event area.
2. To see what the swarm would be capable of making within the context and theme of a color-based 1 vs 1 vs 1 vs 1. and what will be the end result after month or two later when it is eventually filled up.

Essentially there are two different versions of the Swarm vs Swarm Arena, which will be labelled as: One (3.8M) and Two (2.6M)

One (3.8M) - The amount of pixels needed is 3.8 million and is the OG Design of the SvsS Arena.

Two (2.6M) - The amount of pixels needed is 2.6 million and is styled by Jack, a council member, for the Cdawg 2025 Canvas.

So choose whichever option you prefer to see on Wplace canvas

One (3.8M)

Two (2.6M)

please do not 50/50 this poll

[snow urchin]

swarm

you know what to do

also how did neuro bot not essaying you

[nocturne spindle]

I finished drawing Evil from the bank robbery stream, I can place her somewhere near HQ(I'll need to find space) or I can place her at point nemo near Cerber arts because of the dog ears.

[snow urchin]

why not both

[nocturne spindle]

That would be cool(this art is 50k pixels)

[flint cedar]

chat can you guess

[woeful ginkgo]

Eyes are hard

[slender dust]

I can show you the aboniation I'm working on if you want to feel better about them

[fallow pollen]

Actually the arena is a good thing, it allows us to measure how fast the swarm can fill up a given area

The day the arena can be filled out within a day by the swarm is the day we can finally launch the 8.9Mpx abomination

[visual flame]

Defiddling it as i go, but man crazy that their face and blanket are both pure white but i can only see their faces as skin coloured, am i trippin?

[fallow pollen]

I love optical illusions

[slender dust]

Work in progress, are there any obvious things I'm forgetting to do?

[flint cedar]

looks serber enough to me

[slender dust]

So change the dithered one I currently have out with this?

[valid sun]

you lost some of the darker details in the hair

[slender dust]

Is this better?

[valid sun]

well since you deleted the previous one I can't compare them

[slender dust]

Ohh lol, I was trying not to spam

[valid sun]

but also I meant the darker lines all over the hair, for example to the (our) right of her face there's some darker lines that define the hair strands

I can't mark it up in an image editor since I'm not home yet, I can do that in like 45 minutes if you'd like a rough guide what I mean

[rocky sluice]

I'll go with this, it's miles better then having to do a dithered artpiece. Daavko here got u covered thou

[slender dust]

Sure, I have negative artistic ability so I need all the help I can get

[valid sun]

I wouldn't say negative, we all start somewhere... I couldn't draw to save my life (still can't) but defiddling somehow clicked after I did it long enough

[rocky sluice]

I will end this poll in 6 minutes from now, it seems pretty decisive

[rocky sluice]

Planka card going up rn, I will be posting the coords here too shortly

https://wplace.live/?lat=57.15812423138924&lng=-1.3321585344726552&zoom=15.714862859233348

Coords: 1016, 625, 421, 770

Alright! time to get started y'all I will be doing the borders for the whole arena before I fill in.

Planka card has also been created

[past spade]

Ok idk why but my Skirk Marble extension disappeared from TampleMonkey and now I need to install it back...

And even after reinstalling it doesn't work...

Kept saying no script is running even tho I have it enabled

Now how am I gonna finish my 1-month work now...

[viral stag]

I assume you already tried reloading the page

Maybe try reinstalling tampermonkey

[valid sun]

do you have instant injection mode configured from Connor's canvas? Skirk marble breaks if that's on

at least in Firefox

[past spade]

Not working somehow

Using Opera GX rn

[valid sun]

oh, Opera... can't help ya with that one, Opera is weird even if it's supposed to be reskinned Chromium

[past spade]

Reloading the page, reinstalling both tamplemonkey and skirk marble does nothing...

Ugh...

It worked just a few hours ago bruh

And now it just

Vanished

No traces left

[viral stag]

You could try another userscript extension

[past spade]

Even Blue Marble does nothing

[viral stag]

Like violentmonkey

[past spade]

I'll try

Nope

Doesn't work...

Also there's like

Tons of errors

Idk what this means...

[viral stag]

What extension is that?

[past spade]

Still Tamplemonkey

The Dev mode is still on btw

[valid sun]

warnings, not errors, skirk marble is minified so those make sense

[gusty dock]

You can barely see the whole template when max zoomed out

[rocky sluice]

perhaps try using a different browser?

[rocky sluice]

[past spade]

Alr I guess

Time to install another browser...

[rocky sluice]

I use edge mainly for wplace. It works fantastic. can try brave or firefox.

[gusty dock]

I know you wanted to make this just so you can grind for #1 easier but I just can't prove it...

[past spade]

Ok good grief it worked on Edge

[next timber]

wtf i see the timer

raise the timer

[rocky sluice]

[next timber]

It seems I fixed my internet problems and now I can place pixels again

I was gone for about a day, and during that time Vio organized a project with millions of pixels. great

this time in UK

so I'll add Evil Mona Lisa to planka and as soon as we finish it, I can relax and spend all pixels on the swarm vs swarm project

https://swplace2.nagol12344.tech/cards/1627110514591008729

[uneven horizon]

I didnt realise how huge it was

[snow urchin]

so

I'll keep working on my road tho

[valid sun]

turns out 45 minutes means 2.5 hours... anyway I mean something roughly like this

[woeful ginkgo]

I enabled the stopwatch for this one

[snow urchin]

it's going to be a big timer

[dull sparrow]

You are the best

Currently in the middle of beating my head into the wall defiddling this

[flint cedar]

[tropic elk]

2k pixel for 3 whole pixels

this is gonna take a while

[snow urchin]

vio scaled it up a wee bit

[gusty dock]

1,5 minutes is now 16,7h

[gusty dock]

isn't it like 28x or something?

[snow urchin]

27

I think

[rocky sluice]

2700%

also the one pixel outline on the entire swarm arena is done!

[snow urchin]

27x yeah

[rocky sluice]

time to start filling in the pixels

[night osprey]

how to make an account on planka?

discord doesn't work now is there another way?

[next timber]

https://swplace2.nagol12344.tech/register/register.html

[south halo]

all good! forgot i even left that lol

sorry for the late response man, timezones

[rocky sluice]

remember, you can just use username, don't need email to register for planka just rememeber your password

[slender dust]

I feel like I'm just making this worse xd

[valid sun]

ah, I haven't explained enough

the highlighted lines should be a darker shade, not the same light shade you're using for regular shadow in the hair

they're outlines, not shading

[slender dust]

So a third colour

[valid sun]

yes

also for the hair bow, I'd recommend a darker color (so black bc there's no dark greys) for the outline, not a light color

in general outlines should be darker than the inside, it looks off otherwise

[slender dust]

I'm trying to do this with the wplace palette, so which colour would you recommend for that thrid colour?

[valid sun]

lemme answer a question with a question... which colors do you think would qualify? (you wouldn't use blue, right? ...right?)

[slender dust]

I would have thought a darker version of the brown so I would go for something like this one

[valid sun]

yup, that's definitely one of the colors you can use

heck you don't even have to choose a final color right away, you can just put those outlines on a new layer and bucket-fill them with a different color to see how it looks

[slender dust]

I'm not sure it looks good

[valid sun]

then try a different color

find whichever color you like best and use that

tho it's pretty important to mention that since the colors are limited, you'll pretty much never find the exact color you think you need, so you have to make compromises

[gusty dock]

I remember starting my first defiddle all in just one layer but after like 2 colours I realized how helpful they actually are and ended up with like atleast 10

Although I'm new to art / I don't really do art so I sometimes ended up painting in the wrong layer and yea that wasn't so fun

[valid sun]

what software are you using? it's good practice to lock your layers if you're not going to edit them in the close future

makes accidents like this less likely

[gusty dock]

Uhhh I used gimp cuz that's the only one I had installed at the time

Do you know if krita is good for that btw? (defiddling)

I've heard good things about it

[valid sun]

I've been using Krita for defiddling for the last year, it's great

Gimp also works completely fine

[gusty dock]

oh okok I might look into that then if I end up defiddling more in the future

[valid sun]

some people use Aseprite or Paint.NET

[next timber]

I'm not an expert in defidding, but I think that since this is a pixel-by-pixel change of an image, you don't need any super cool features of fancy image editors, whatever is most convenient for you will work

[gusty dock]

I mean in theory defiddling is very simple so ig most photo editing / drawing programs should do the trick

[gusty dock]

Ye exactly

[rocky sluice]

be like me and do everything in one single layer, cuz I have no idea what I'm doing

[valid sun]

you really don't, yeah... there's some conveniences like full-resolution reference layers but you just need a pixel brush and layers

anyway, lock your layers

[gusty dock]

I assume krita has built in custom colour palette options?

like you can limit the colours you draw with to a certain palette

[valid sun]

yes, Gimp does too

in fact, all the software I mentioned does

[gusty dock]

Ye cuz I found that in gimp so I was just wondering

[undone frigate]

switching from 1 canvas to the other just to flashbang myself for fun at this point

[gusty dock]

pxls.space templates are so cooked for me and I just deal with it by placing 1 pixel to north-west from the template

[valid sun]

lemme guess, the template is offset by half a pixel?

[gusty dock]

something like that, but also my pixels place weird

[valid sun]

yeah, that's a known issue, I'm guessing you have Windows display scaling at 150%

[gusty dock]

100%

[valid sun]

huh

browser zoom level then

[slender dust]

Is this looking better?

[gusty dock]

it wasn't a problem before but I think a week into last canvas it just got messed up

[gusty dock]

damn ok ye works

I thought I tried that already but ig not

[valid sun]

ye, zoom and display scaling breaks pxls rendering due to the way it renders templates, it's a known thing

[valid sun]

better, make sure to look at the original and try to make the lines smooth, some of them are a bit jagged

this is what I mean

in smooth things like hair, you don't want stairs like this

or sharp corners like this

[slender dust]

Thicker lines then? I dont really know how to do smooth lines that thin