Toonbots message board: Fan XML

Tirdun Tue Apr 10 11:49:37 2001 Re: Fan XML {cartoon height="1200" width="600" rowformat="4"} {panel} {character name="lenin" aspect="faceright"/} {character name="al" aspect="faceleft"/} {caption location = "top left" size="18" fgcolor="red"}You know, Al, this "Toonbots"gig could be a real shot in the arm for me{/caption} {caption location = "bottom right" size="18" fgcolor="blue"}Really, you think?{/caption} {/panel} {panel} {caption location ="top left" size="18" fgcolor="red"}Oh yeah! This gets popular with the kids, you got merchandise, movie rights{/caption} {caption location = "bottom right" size="18" fgcolor="blue"}Uh Len, Lenin?{/caption} {/panel} {panel} {caption location ="top left" size="18" fgcolor="red"}...made for TV movies, books, cereal endorsements, t-shirts...{/caption} {caption location = "bottom right" size="18" fgcolor="blue"}Hey Lenin, YO!{/caption} {/panel} {panel} {caption location ="top left" size="18" fgcolor="red"}WHAT!{/caption} {caption location = "bottom right" size="18" fgcolor="blue"}You're a communist, man. You can't get rich off of that stuff!{/caption} {/panel} {panel} {caption location ="top left" size="18" fgcolor="red"}!{/caption} {/panel} {panel} {caption location ="top left" size="18" fgcolor="red"}Boy, you're a real downer, Al. Why don't you just shoot me too?{/caption} {caption location = "bottom right" size="18" fgcolor="blue"}Uh, you're also dead.{/caption} {/panel} {panel} {character name="lenin" aspect="faceleft"/} {caption location ="top left" size="18" fgcolor="red"}Well, dammit, Al! It's all grey clouds for you, isn't it! You know, you've been a real pain since losing Florida...{/caption} {/panel} {panel} {character name="lenin" action="leaves"/} {caption location = "bottom right" size="18" fgcolor="blue"}We're still friends, though, right? RIGHT? .... I'm so lonely.{/caption} {/panel} {/cartoon}

Michael Tue Apr 10 21:27:25 2001 Re: Fan XML > Well, as my humble fan art has been called "inspired" by Vanity > Fair and "The best movie since Shindler's List" by that annoying > critic who'll take cash from anybody for a decent review, I've written > what I think is the approx. XML source code for it. I'll post it in the > follow up thread, for anyone who wishes to bother with it, it's mainly an > excercise for me to explore the mysteries of the Toonbots experience. Two > notes, first I think it exceeds the text limits for a caption, since I > can't find any captions with as many characters and second, I don't know > that Al has a left facing. Regardless, it was fun to try out. It's a good question whether the captions will fit -- I don't have any text metrics functionality, so I can't break lines. Not that I can place text in multiple lines anyway. I still don't have the Toon-o-Matic running again yet after the migration to the new machine, so I can't run this through it, more's the pity. Now I'm more motivated....

Michael Tue Apr 10 21:29:56 2001 Another thing By the bye, the newly rewritten Toon-o-Matic should be a lot more portable. If that's the case, I'm going to install it on the server for everyone's enjoyment. But it's going to run *really* choked down, and queued, because I can't afford to get slashdotted. So it might email you a link to the result or something. And THEN by golly I expect to see some fan art action.

Tirdun Thu Apr 12 07:44:17 2001 Re: Another thing > By the bye, the newly rewritten Toon-o-Matic should be a lot more > portable. If that's the case, I'm going to install it on the server for > everyone's enjoyment. But it's going to run *really* choked down, and > queued, because I can't afford to get slashdotted. So it might email you a > link to the result or something. I tremble with anticipation :) > And THEN by golly I expect to see some fan art action. Hey, I'm tryin' here!