Topic: TOS Ranks (Avatars) (Read 8647 times)

StClair · « **on:** January 26, 2003, 05:24:36 pm »

After seeing that a few people (Cleeve et al) use TNG rank pips for their avatars, I went ahead and made a quick-and-dirty set of TOS sleeves for people to use. You can see an example under my own name.

http://www.efn.org/~kellys/tosranks.zip (22k) contains ranks from Ensign to Commander for all three branches, plus Captain, Fleet Captain and Commodore (also Admiral etc) in Command gold. All images are 60x30 gifs. They are provided for free use on these forums.

(Edit: added the higher ranks and changed a few names.)

(Moderators - if this is off-topic here, I apologize, but I thought - I hoped - it might be of general interest.)

Kieran Forester · « **Reply #1 on:** January 26, 2003, 06:59:53 pm »

Thanks StClair! Neat idea.

Any chance you could do the same for the TMP rank insignias? I'd love to have a TMP Commodore's rank badge on a red field, but I'll use your Commodore's stripes for now.

Edit - However, the Commodore's stripes don't seem to work.

StClair · « **Reply #2 on:** January 26, 2003, 07:43:18 pm »

I might, if I can find some decent images of the movie insignia. This was a simple matter of drawing stripes on solid fields and adding gradients.

I just checked the zipfile, and it should be fine. Try downloading it again? Keep in mind that you'll have to host the image(s) you choose on your own webspace.

For everyone else, here's the contents of the zip:

Kieran Forester · « **Reply #3 on:** January 26, 2003, 08:43:43 pm »

There we go, now it works. Just had to upload it.

Kieran Forester · « **Reply #4 on:** January 26, 2003, 08:52:22 pm »

I've uploaded them all to my site. If anyone else wants one, the URL is http://www.geocites.com/hyperion2k4/tos-xxxx.gif, where xxxx is the specific picture that you want, ie lt1, cdr3, etc. Look on the picture provided by StClair above for the listings.

StClair · « **Reply #5 on:** January 26, 2003, 10:00:37 pm »

Because of geocities' image-hosting policy, those avatars won't show up properly if linked from there. I suggest you either put them up on the Knights site, or just let everyone download the zip from me.

Fab · « **Reply #6 on:** January 27, 2003, 06:35:47 am »

I did the same thing. Too much TNG and not enough TOS in the world, if you ask me.

Have you thought about making your braid "wavy"?

Aenigma · « **Reply #7 on:** January 27, 2003, 08:45:27 am »

Could someone please find the Romulan versions of these avatars. It seems the feds always get the nice shiny things........... *sob* *sob*

TalonClaw · « **Reply #8 on:** January 27, 2003, 09:45:27 am »

This is a really cool idea.

TalonClaw · « **Reply #9 on:** January 27, 2003, 09:51:42 am »

Maybe something like this Aenigma.

Make a copy of this and host it somewhere. I won't have it up for long.

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Could someone please find the Romulan versions of these avatars. It seems the feds always get the nice shiny things........... *sob* *sob*

Aenigma · « **Reply #13 on:** January 27, 2003, 12:52:20 pm »

Ahh that's better. I can't wait to get the general rank (id est admiral)

StClair · « **Reply #15 on:** January 27, 2003, 08:10:13 pm »

Behold - braid! And properly angled half-stripes, too.

I've updated the zip and the index file (check up-thread for the new images).

Fab · « **Reply #17 on:** January 28, 2003, 07:46:26 pm »

I changed the files that StClair worked up so well ever so slightly. I put some shading on the cuff itself to make it look a little more round, and I added ranks all the way up for all the ranks (Who's to say there isn't a commodore in the science branch? What about the Surgeon General?) and added command dress green for all the ranks too. If anyone's interested (StClair?), let me know.

StClair · « **Reply #18 on:** January 29, 2003, 03:29:19 am »

I thought about adding Command green, but if you'll look at the design of that alternate uniform, you'll note the rank braid is along the collar, not the sleeves. So rather than just add another blank rectangle, this one of apple green, I decided to leave it out.

I like the shading effect; I probably should have thought of that myself. (Uhh... they're "on the rack"! Yeah, that's it...) Can you zip those up and send them to me?

Higher ranks for other departments... enh. Mostly I go by TOS, in which everyone we see of Captain rank or greater is in gold.

Still, I suppose it doesn't hurt.

Glad to know people like these.

Fab · « **Reply #19 on:** January 29, 2003, 06:33:36 am »

There is one version of the wrap-around that has rank on the cuffs (first season?) and one version on the collar (later in the series I believe).

I'll send them to you this morning, and yes, I like them the best of all I've seen so far.

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