elouai

Just released Candybar World

I finally found a way to create couple makers from dolls.
Create your dolls in the candybar 5 dollmakers and 'import' them into the room maker

'Import': Just save the doll into that small minibox above (3 empty boxes).
That is essentially saving the dolls as cookies, then when you go to the roommaker it collects those dolls back from those cookies.

More graphics will be added next week,
I now need to take a break, feel very tired from trying to get this to work properly.

Candybar World

This was so adorable.
And hilarous.

I was shocked how funny it was.
It was just released in Japan 1 year ago.

I was able to find all the episodes and compiled them in one spot so I could share it.
Potemayo episodes.

Let me know what you guys think.
Includes 12 episodes (24 minutes each) and 5 OVA's (mini episodes, 10 minutes each)

Ok finally done, I think I got all the bugs.

Candybar 5, girls
Candybar 5, boys
Please post any comments or suggestions


Potential Errors:
1 - No images (only x's)
Fix: Restart computer.
Usually this happens to IE after not turning off the computer for a couple of days, a resource leak uses up all pointers to images and no new images can be loaded.
2 - "Error: Cannot load cookie". (Very rare)
Fix: Clear your cookies and everything should get corrected. Note, this will erase your stored dolls (including candybar3).
3 - "Saving doll, body disappears". This seems to be a AOL browser related problem, try firefox or IE to fix. Haven't been able to solve AOL browser bug (old netscape browser) and might not bother with it since its a browser that is no longer supported by even AOL.

To save dolls EMAIL them, that would create a copy that you can edit later.

Fixing:
Backgrounds are now all animating again.

Images:
There are the MORE images in candybar5 than candybar4, except I have been removing duplicates. So the NUMBER of images looks smaller.

Tabs:
Candybar5 does not include the following tabs:
scarfs
socks
Also the 2 pet tabs and the 2 item tabs were combined into 1 tab each.
I added 2 tabs, earings and makeup, I might combine scarfs with hats, and socks with shoes.
If I add other tabs it will cause errors when you 'edit' your dolls from the email since the tabs would have moved.

In candybar 5 the text feature is enhanced to allow multi line text, changing the font size, changing the font face, and allowing the text to be placed anywhere on the doll.

1. Click on the add text button
2. Typed in Hi!!!, notice that the doll is dynamically updated as you type in the text
3. Change the font size, it dynamically changes the font size on the doll
4. Change the font face, it dynamically changes the font face on the doll

Then you could move around the text anywhere on your doll.
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I am just adding one last feature.
Adding text to the dolls and bieng able to place it anywhere around the doll.

I still have not finished this feature and I think I will be able to finish this by Sat morning (ONE more day)

Here is another feature neat feature everyone was asking for.
The ability to temporarily save dolls.

No logins required, all the information is saved to your cookies. So if you clear your cookies you will lose the saved dolls.

How to save and retrieve your dolls?

1. Click the save button (disk icon) to save the doll in the 3rd panel
2. As you can see, you now have a miniature picture of your doll saved in panel 3.
Now say you want to load the doll saved in panel 2. Just click the download arrow.
3. You now see that the mini doll has been transferred to the avatar window, so you can now continue to edit it.


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Any suggestions, ideas, feel free to comment below.

I finally found out what the problem was.

There was an exploit used by hackers with an old script that has since been removed.
They installed a botnet and had launched an attack on a server with that script.
The only 3rd party tool used on the site, ended up compromising it.

The scripts have been cleaned up and the botnet removed.
also certain programs were moved to root, so elouai should be much better protected in the future.

We have in the meantime changed the IP address so within 24 hours everyone should be able to see elouai.com again

try this IP
http://74.86.125.96/

one uplink provider was blocking (nulling) our IP address.



- Lou

I wanted to help clear up misconceptions about what I will release for candybar5.

It will NOT be new images, I will be cleaning up the interface to make it more functional.
Combining all features I ever had from candybar 1..4 plus a few more.

The Layered avatar feature:
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The problem to solve:
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Sometimes one could not tell which image belonged to what tab. Was this clown's nose in the nose tab, accessory tab, makeup tab or another tab?
By deleting layers you lose what you had currently selected, with no way to retrieve it.

The solution:
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The images are opened up like a deck of cards that you can selectively delete.
The flow
1. Select the layer button
2. Delete the layer you dont want
3. The doll now has the right layer removed

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Also note: the images themselves are half the size of the original doll image layers. Makes the navigation of all layers much simpler.

Any comments let me know.
I will be releasing a post a day about candybar5 until its released. Will keep you guys posted.

I just released Valentine eCard dollmaker.

It has images mostly related to Valentines day.
Valentine eCards


You can now EMBED your doll onto your webpage.
You can even embed an animated doll on YOUR Myspace profile page. (Just click on the link button and copy the second link).

There is now Cookie support on the dollmaker. So it will remember your doll when you come back to the next day or the next year (as long as the cookies where not deleted).

You can now save a jpg, gif and png files

The email feature has been improved so it sends an eCard now.

You can store a very large amount of items in the wardrobe, the limit is really how much resources your browse has available. So I dont recommend saving more than 1000 images in the wardrobe.

Let me know if any bugs or suggestions that you would like to make


P.S.
This codeset will soon be migrated to Candybar4.
That will fix all the resource issues that I had in the past, and will include all these features plus a few more that you see now with the Valentine game.

This will be the Naruto page.

I was able to do around 12 characters from naruto and posted it into my dollmaker.
It was along the style of a portrait maker. I know its not as much images as i would like but I will try to improve my output of these drawings. By practcing I find I am able to produce a lot more each day.

Here is the link below:
Naruto doll maker

Please let me know what you think about this style.
BTW, the dollmaker code will be going through a major update for the candybar 4, Naruto and Harry Potter. Have been working on it on and off for the past 4 weeks.

All suggestions and ideas are welcome:

Should I create a full sized doll maker from this Naruto portraits?