Dec 2

Well, I’m in a bit of a predicament. When I originally designed the new theme for the blog, I came up with the idea to have my banner image contain every one of my alts–every character I’ve created that I’ve at least played a little. For those of you reading in a reader:

This banner is complimented with larger, random images of an individual character to the right of the screen, if the users screen was wide enough.

Soon, the problem became apparent: gear changes constantly, hairstyles change from time to time (with the new barber shops), and characters are added or removed. All part of the life of an altoholic. So how to take care of this?

Easy! Find some way of generating images of each character automatically, and write a script that puts the images together into one big banner at predefined positions. I feel fairly certain that I could write an AutoIt script or something that would read the gear from the armory and click the appropriate buttons in WoW Model Viewer.

And now there is the new problem: there is no WoW Model Viewer that is compatible with this version of WoW. So, unless something amazing happens, or I can figure out a way to generate images (if Model Viewer can do it, and FigurePrints can do it, and that guy over at Grumpycoder can do it (even though I haven’t seen his in action yet), then I should be able to do it), I need to come up with another idea for a banner. Any thoughts?

Related posts:

1. New WoW Model Viewer Works with 3.x
2. Model Viewer + Free Time = New Signature
3. Big Monitor
4. My Plans for WotLK and Beyond
5. Letter from War: A New Threat