Two months ago we launched a competition to look for more smiley sets. We received many applications. However many used copyrighted images, which we cannot permit. After much work we shortlisted four sets from all the submissions that met the guidelines.
An SMF team and charter vote has finally given us a winner. Before we announce the winner, we wish to thank Spektral (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=profile;u=206070), SoLoGHoST (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=profile;u=198712) and islam2hamy (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=profile;u=126024) for making it through to the final. Your smileys are now on the long awaited "Smiley of the moment" feature in the admin panel. We would love to see more smileys in future from all of you!
However there must be only one winner. After counting the scores we are happy to announce that first prize goes to:
SoLoGhOsT with his Solosmileys Non Animated
The Winning Entry (http://i.imgur.com/YAbEB.png)
congrats sologhost! :D
congratz buddy ;)
Well done SoLo good stuff - But we knew that :D :D
Congratulations SoLoGHoST!
Your think "kiss" icon is not very hot :)
wow, nice!
Congrats to the Winner and Finalist's. Oh great I still get "Coming soon... there aren't many smiley sets available yet." though don't worry it will probably start working after I post this.
SoLoGHoST, congratulations!
****** sologhost you win in every contest
you really do a very good job
am proud of you <== lol i dont even know you !!
Congratz
Well done SoLoGhOsT,
I am glad I didnt send mine in - your fine entry makes mine look like my 5 yo daughter did them on her Etch-o-sketch!!
Cheers
Billy
Congrats! :)
Great set of smiley's! Congrats!
Congrats SoLoGhOsT! Nice work.
Gratz sologhost /bravo
Congrats! They look terrific!
congrats!
Hahaha congrats! Love the tongue!
Congraz, I like the Cry :D
Congratulations SoLoGhOsT!
Thanks to all involved in the contest. It's good to see participation. Congratulations to the winner. We look forward to seeing your future work as well.
Quote from: ethankcvds on November 02, 2009, 07:29:03 AM
Congrats to the Winner and Finalist's. Oh great I still get "Coming soon... there aren't many smiley sets available yet." though don't worry it will probably start working after I post this.
If you are on 2.0, the contents are fetched as a scheduled task, so either force the task to run, or just wait until it does at its scheduled time.
Will this be included in Rc2 Public?
RC2* Editing Posts leads to Connection Reset for me...
Quote from: Briapv on November 02, 2009, 10:42:25 AM
RC2* Editing Posts leads to Connection Reset for me...
What browser are you using? (I've not encountered this behaviour on RC2, be it here or on my test site, be it in Chrome, FF or IE)
Quote from: Motoko-chan on November 02, 2009, 10:30:01 AM
Quote from: ethankcvds on November 02, 2009, 07:29:03 AM
Congrats to the Winner and Finalist's. Oh great I still get "Coming soon... there aren't many smiley sets available yet." though don't worry it will probably start working after I post this.
If you are on 2.0, the contents are fetched as a scheduled task, so either force the task to run, or just wait until it does at its scheduled time.
It did run the scheduled task that was set for today(Which was at 06:53:00 AM.). I've even run the task myself about five times.
Congratz :)
RC2 ( public release ) got this smile set ?
Congratulations! Love them
Quote from: ethankcvds on November 02, 2009, 11:00:52 AM
Quote from: Motoko-chan on November 02, 2009, 10:30:01 AM
Quote from: ethankcvds on November 02, 2009, 07:29:03 AM
Congrats to the Winner and Finalist's. Oh great I still get "Coming soon... there aren't many smiley sets available yet." though don't worry it will probably start working after I post this.
If you are on 2.0, the contents are fetched as a scheduled task, so either force the task to run, or just wait until it does at its scheduled time.
It did run the scheduled task that was set for today(Which was at 06:53:00 AM.). I've even run the task myself about five times.
We are working on this :)
Congratulations to all who entered, and to the winner :)
good job, congratz
These are Awesome, SoLoGhOsT~! Thank you~!
I like how clear they are. Nice size too. Can't wait to use them.
Thanks to SMF staffers who give this contest/project their time & attention~!
Excellent outcome.
How about contests for...
Best way I ever used to add members, or customize my board using only CSS.
Very nice! Congratulations :)
Congrats to the winner :)
The set can be downloaded here: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2125
Congrats :)
Congratulations!
Really awesome smilies. I can't wait until i can use them.
Quote from: Do² on November 02, 2009, 01:30:00 PM
Congratulations!
Really awesome smilies. I can't wait until i can use them.
Quote from: Akyhne on November 02, 2009, 12:45:32 PM
The set can be downloaded here: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2125
UPS :D There are some animated smilies? I think unanimated would be great as well. ;)
Congratulations SoLoGhOsT!
Still can't edit files... Connection Reset
congrats SoLoGhOsT! :D
Congrats SoloGhost, you rock!
Quote from: CountryLady on November 02, 2009, 11:59:52 AM
These are Awesome, SoLoGhOsT~! Thank you~!
I like how clear they are. Nice size too. Can't wait to use them.
Thanks to SMF staffers who give this contest/project their time & attention~!
Excellent outcome.
How about contests for...
Best way I ever used to add members, or customize my board using only CSS.
dont worry we have another 2 competitions in line ... hopefully next wont be out before too long
Also to everyone thats asked we have yet to decide if these will be added however please remember we did not promise that the winning would be in smf 2.0
Congratulations SoLoGHoST!
WOW, Just now seeing this topic. Didn't expect the outcome of this contest so soon, however, has been quite awhile. I am so proud that you all love my smiley set. I, honestly, have to say, that I haven't had this much fun creating little images in years and giving them life. I'm not sure on which set was the actual winning set (Non-Animated and/or Semi-Animated). I believe it was the Non-Animated as this says in the first post of this topic. However, I don't currently have the Non-Animated set available as a MOD, but can do and add it here at SMF if you guys would like, since this was a set that I e-mailed in. Just tearing up right now with TEARS of JOY as I didn't even expect to win this, but was hoping I would. You guys are all so great. This topic made my whole YEAR!
Thanks!!
(P.S. - Waiting on Charter Membership award :P)
Congratulations SoLoGHoST!!! They're great!! ;)
Quote from: SoLoGHoST on November 02, 2009, 03:26:35 PM
(P.S. - Waiting on Charter Membership award :P)
Looks like you have it already. :D
Yes, Thank You Very Much!
Cheers :)
Congratulations SoLoGhOsT :)
Nice show Sologhost and to all those who entered
Congratulations sologhost
Congrats SoLoGHoST. You deserve it. :)
congrats nice one..
Congrats Sologhost you also know me as Nerdboy . ;)
congrats for winner
Congrats!
Congrats Sologhost :D
Good stuff buddy!!
They look nice :)
Quote from: Runic on November 02, 2009, 02:55:34 PM
Also to everyone thats asked we have yet to decide if these will be added however please remember we did not promise that the winning would be in smf 2.0
Aww.. go ahead and add 'em. If not as the default, at least have them there for folks to choose. Will add what? measly couple hundred k to the DL package? ;)
They look really good. 8)
Thanks guys. I believe it's property of SMF now. So they can chose to do whatever they want with them. I, personally, would love to see them be a part of a default install on SMF.
Cheers :)
Congratulations SoLoGhOsT. ;)
Those smilies are sweet as #@!* :P
Thank You NEuRoToXic ;)
Congratulations :D
Congrats! ;D
Thank You all very much. I can see them on the Smileys of the Moment, and looks just great. I'm speechless, yet again! I'm so glad my smileys are liked by so many people here. I will be having another go at it and will definitely create atleast 1 more smiley set. If you'd like to request specific ideas/expressions you have in mind, please do and I'll do my best.
Cheers :)
Congrats, nice set :)
Congrats, I like it :D
Quote from: Minare on November 06, 2009, 05:26:34 PM
Congrats, nice set :)
Now that one is ripe for misquoting. ;)
lol @ Antechinus. That comment had me cracking up. You have a dirty mind ;)
Thank You :)
congrats sologhost!
smiley looks good
arigato gosimas ;)
Quote from: LoCatus on November 04, 2009, 07:36:09 AM
Aww.. go ahead and add 'em. If not as the default, at least have them there for folks to choose. Will add what? measly couple hundred k to the DL package? ;)
They look really good. 8)
They can be added by yourself just need to dl them :P
Runic.
Thank you for reminding me why I never bothered to post here before.
Guess it's back to keeping my keyboard to myself and just hunting down answers to my questions.
They've been on the mod site for a while, you just have to go download them from http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2125
There are no plans to add it to the SMF core package at this time that I'm aware of, especially since they're available already for users.
Congratz. SMF finally has new emoticons.
But I still wonder when we will have animated emoticons :-\
You can easily install animated ones on your own site! :)
Quote from: akaiphan on November 08, 2009, 04:10:41 PM
Congratz. SMF finally has new emoticons.
But I still wonder when we will have animated emoticons :-\
Thanks, but I don't understand what you mean by SMF finally has new emoticons??
Also, I'm not sure of this, but as I understood it, whichever set wins the contest, SMF has all legal rights to that set. So I believe, and please let me know if I'm wrong, that this smiley set now belongs to SMF. So they are free to do with it whatever they see fit. And like I stated before, if SMF wants me to create an Angel smiley (since I know they have this smiley on SMF as a default) I'd be happy to, if that is preventing them from making it a default set.
Well, Thanks again everyone.
Solomon
SMF has a new set here on this site as of today, which is what the comment refers to.
SoLoGHoST, it wouldn't hurt to add an angel smiley to the set, actually.
Sure, will do Arantor. Ok, thought he was talking about my set...hehe. :-[
:) ;) :D ;D >:( :( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-[ :-X :-\ :-* :'( O:)
KOOOOLLL!!!!
actually 3 new sets were added ... can you guess what ones?
Great smiles SMF team! :D
Quote from: Runic on November 08, 2009, 07:04:10 PM
actually 3 new sets were added ... can you guess what ones?
Default, Aaron & Akyhne?
Nice smiley sets added SMF. Looking good! :)
Quote from: F.L.A.M.E.R on November 08, 2009, 05:41:49 PM
:) ;) :D ;D >:( :( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-[ :-X :-\ :-* :'( O:)
KOOOOLLL!!!!
We probably don't see what you see, it depends on what smiley set people have selected in their profile ;)
I'm just taking a wild guess here, but did Akyhne create the Akyhne smiley set?? And Aaron created the Aaron smiley set??
Cheers, you guys they are both good for non-animated smileys, though I like the Akyhne set much better as it looks nice and sharp :)
Good wild guess :D
hehe, sometimes I surprise myself, though I'll never gamble again... ;)
I have concidered a animated set of the 'Akyhne' set. At least I will at some point release additional smilies as a mod. I already have ~+10 additional ones.
Good to know, currently using the Akyhne set right now here at SMF. Perhaps it might be a good idea for SMF to allow users to use their own smileys via profile, if the Admin allows this. Or perhaps I'll go ahead and make a mod for this.
Cheers :)
Hmm, I'm not sure I'd be overly enthusiastic about allowing users to arbitrarily upload smileys for themselves.
A lot of users are using own smilies in forums, by linking to them in their posts.
Ok, guys, here's my first attempt at an Angel Smiley for my SoLoSMiLeYS set. Comments? Suggestions?
(http://acs.graphicsmayhem.com/images/solosmileys/angel.png)
And another...
(http://acs.graphicsmayhem.com/images/solosmileys/angel2.png)
I think I like the 2nd one. Angels are tough, maybe I should get rid of the wings... :-\
Quote from: Akyhne on November 09, 2009, 02:12:29 PM
A lot of users are using own smilies in forums, by linking to them in their posts.
Oh, but would be better if it were in the editor IMO...
Don't like them. If I didn't know what you were doing based on previous posts, I don't think I would have been able to tell what the smiley actually is. Is that wings or hands? I think the ring needs to float above the head.
Quote from: IchBin™ on November 09, 2009, 02:50:13 PM
Don't like them. If I didn't know what you were doing based on previous posts, I don't think I would have been able to tell what the smiley actually is. Is that wings or hands? I think the ring needs to float above the head.
Certainly. The top one looks like a smiley with a hat and the second a smiley with a sweatband :P
Ok, thanks for your honest opinions, that's why it was a first go, will definitely be working on it more and yeah, definitely getting rid of the wings...
Cheers :)
Also, there is a problem with installing solosmileys via the Smilies of the Moment package since it automatically assumes that the smilies are directly inside of the zipped file. One should use the SoLoSMiLeYS Mod (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2125) I have already created for this since the package-info.xml file adds the solosmileys folder from within the zipped file, which it should do instead of linking all of the folders/files into another folder called SoLoSMiLeYS1, which SMF does when installing via Smiley's of the Moment.
There, I have fixed this myself by placing the smileys outside of this folder and into the root, you can install it either way now. All updated and tested for both methods.
congrat sologhost :)
Thanks tooman.
Good work SoLoGhOsT,
Hi Runic, could we see the other two finals - smiley's for reference.
CONGRATULATIONS !
Regards ,Anup Kanwar.
Quote from: A.SK on November 11, 2009, 02:37:25 PM
Good work SoLoGhOsT,
Hi Runic, could we see the other two finals - smiley's for reference.
Sorry I no longer have the results to hand those are posted in team board and as you see im thankfully no longer a team member
...I mad it to the final? But...I don't even remember submitting anything.. hahaha
Woohoo nice!
Those smileys are GREAT !
I was needing somthing like those & you made'em real...Many thanks man, keep it up !
Vroum.
Congratulations SoLoGhOsT! Ya can't get any better then that.
:D ;D
Thanks a lot guys! :)
Congratulations Solo for winning the SMF Smiley Contest! More power to you and I hope to hear from you on future competitions like this.
Wow,well done SoLo good stuff :)
congratz buddy
Congratulations ;)
::) ::)
THANK...