Brand New Forum FAQ!

Cagey · February 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">Read this one!</div> I've updated the forum FAQ so that it's current (and also a FAQ).

Lemme know if you see any errors or would like me to add your tutorial site.

Xyth · February 2004

nice

MonsieurEvil · February 2004

<span style='color:white'>Artificial de-bumping due to forum time/date problem, please ignore this post</span>

BigD · February 2004

Beautiful work cagey! So easy to read!

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>When should I PM XP-Cagey with a mapping question?
You've got to ask yourself a question: "Do I feel lucky?"
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LMAO! (But true no doubt!)

Wolv · February 2004

<i>I had already linked to a local copy of the file you sent Flayra on Jan 25th next to the main Quark link, if this is a more recent copy I'll update it.</i>
/Slams self in forehead for not noticing download link.

I actually didn't know that file arrived, since I didn't receive a reply to the mail I send.

Cagey · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Wolv @ Feb 8 2004, 03:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I actually didn't know that file arrived, since I didn't receive a reply to the mail I send.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
If you want to CC: me on any update emails from now on, I'll try to get the FAQ updated ASAP whenever a new patch comes in.

Mendasp · February 2004

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /> It's very nice, although the formula for adjusting the levels on photoshop is different from the old one <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' />

Bahamut · February 2004

might like to add some obvious brackets around the formula too. I was sitting there wonder why the hell I had a result of 48801 or something until I remembered to do the gamma x 128 bit first :P

Thaldarin · February 2004

My plea finally got heard, well done XP-Cagey. Alot of information covered, and I foresee a great new rush to use the newbie mapping forums.

Wolv · February 2004

A few QuArK related remarks:<ul><li>The link to the forum can probably better be changed to the more direct <a href='http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quark/' target='_blank'>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quark/</a></li><li>A link to the entity/texture support file <a href='http://www.student.citg.tudelft.nl/c9375215/QuArK_NS3_support.zip' target='_blank'>http://www.student.citg.tudelft.nl/c937521...NS3_support.zip</a> also seems useful, since the NS installs usually don't contain the most recent version.</li></ul>

Thaldarin · February 2004

XP-Cagey, I couldn't get the PSP gamma correction method to work correctly. Although I got a method to work correctly for GIMP.

Right Click Pic > Image > Colours > Levels >

Input Levels : 255 (NS Gamma) 128
Then click "Auto" and then "OK" to gamma correct.

Jezpuh · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>What questions belong in the "NS nebwie mapping" forum?</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Nebwie :\

Cagey · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mendasp @ Feb 8 2004, 04:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /> It's very nice, although the formula for adjusting the levels on photoshop is different from the old one <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
255 - (gamma - 1.0)*128
= 255 - gamma*128 - (-1.0)*128
= 255 - gamma*128 + (1.0)*128
= 255 + 128 - gamma*128
= 383 - gamma*128

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>A few QuArK related remarks:
The link to the forum can probably better be changed to the more direct <a href='http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quark/' target='_blank'>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quark/</a>
A link to the entity/texture support file <a href='http://www.student.citg.tudelft.nl/c937521...NS3_support.zip' target='_blank'>http://www.student.citg.tudelft.nl/c937521...NS3_support.zip</a> also seems useful, since the NS installs usually don't contain the most recent version.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

I've fixed the forum link.

I had already linked to a local copy of the file you sent Flayra on Jan 25th next to the main Quark link, if this is a more recent copy I'll update it.

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>might like to add some obvious brackets around the formula too. I was sitting there wonder why the hell I had a result of 48801 or something until I remembered to do the gamma x 128 bit first <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

I'll add some more parentheses <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Right Click Pic > Image > Colours > Levels ></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Will add a line for GIMP since that's what most people will have easiest access to.

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Nebwie :\ </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Fixed <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Cagey · February 2004

Quick note: for those of you making long resource posts for others to use, I added a tag to IPB when I made the new FAQ that allows you to jump to any spot in a post with a mouse click.

To make a link target in your post, use the [anchor="<target_name>"] tag and close the tag after your text.

To jump to your target, use the url tag like [url="#<target_name>"] (make sure to add the '#' to the beginning of the url).

You need to close both tags, like this:

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'>[anchor="my_target"]My target[/anchor]
...
...
...
...
Jump to [url="#my_target"]my target[/url]</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

I used the new anchor tag for both the links at the top and the "return to top" link after each question.

brute_force · February 2004

Erm, kinda off-topic, but can you use HTML in normal posts?

tseepra · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ShdwStal @ Feb 9 2004, 09:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Erm, kinda off-topic, but can you use HTML in normal posts?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Nope.

Thaldarin · February 2004

Xp-Cagey, I don't know if you can do this or if it is within your power. We still get posts that shouldn't be on the main mapping forums, or are just stupid.
I got an idea, when someone clicks the "New Topic" button could it be possible to have a pop-up box that says "Please read the Mapping Forums FAQ before posting", and when clicked OK goes to the New Topic Creation area? So no one has an excuse for stupid posts, or already answered posts.

HTML Test Here for BF:

<a href="http://www.natural-selection.org">If HTML works this is a link to the NS Home Page</a>

Cagey · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ShdwStal @ Feb 8 2004, 11:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Erm, kinda off-topic, but can you use HTML in normal posts?</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
If you could, I wouldn't have to add a new IPB Code tag <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

In IPB v1.3, you can turn on HTML editing for an individual forum and then restrict editing on a per-group basis, but it's much better security to just stick with IPB and add some additional security-safe functionality when necessary.

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>I got an idea, when someone clicks the "New Topic" button could it be possible to have a pop-up box that says "Please read the Mapping Forums FAQ before posting", and when clicked OK goes to the New Topic Creation area? So no one has an excuse for stupid posts, or already answered posts.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

I'm probably not going to implement this, but if something is clearly answered in the FAQ, you can always <i>politely</i> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> tell the user which question in the FAQ they should refer to.

Thaldarin · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (XP-Cagey @ Feb 9 2004, 02:15 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ShdwStal @ Feb 8 2004, 11:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Erm, kinda off-topic, but can you use HTML in normal posts?</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
If you could, I wouldn't have to add a new IPB Code tag <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

In IPB v1.3, you can turn on HTML editing for an individual forum and then restrict editing on a per-group basis, but it's much better security to just stick with IPB and add some additional security-safe functionality when necessary.

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>I got an idea, when someone clicks the "New Topic" button could it be possible to have a pop-up box that says "Please read the Mapping Forums FAQ before posting", and when clicked OK goes to the New Topic Creation area? So no one has an excuse for stupid posts, or already answered posts.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

I'm probably not going to implement this, but if something is clearly answered in the FAQ, you can always <i>politely</i> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> tell the user which question in the FAQ they should refer to.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
That would mean me saying as <i>politely</i> as possible "read the stickied threads" about 5 - 8 times a day. I do that anyway ... and still I see the most ridiculous posts. Well, shame it isnt going to be implemented <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

brute_force · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (XP-Cagey @ Feb 9 2004, 08:15 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ShdwStal @ Feb 8 2004, 11:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Erm, kinda off-topic, but can you use HTML in normal posts?</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
If you could, I wouldn't have to add a new IPB Code tag <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

In IPB v1.3, you can turn on HTML editing for an individual forum and then restrict editing on a per-group basis, but it's much better security to just stick with IPB and add some additional security-safe functionality when necessary.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Mmmk. Oh well, not like it's important anyway. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

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