User talk:Smurf/Archive 1

Guild
Pm me in game :] Madam Foo 01:58, 23 June 2006 (CDT)

Images
nice work on the inventory icons. --Jamie  04:35, 29 June 2006 (CDT)

Don't forget to flag the old image with if you upload a new one under a different name &mdash; Skuld   09:37, 30 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Smurf, I do like the new images, but could you square them off and make them all the same size? Otherwise if they're used in tables it makes them look bad as each line ends up being different sizes.  --Rainith 01:44, 12 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Just the collector items or all the inventory items I've uploaded? And does 64x64 sound ok? --Smurf 01:55, 12 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Off the top of my head, the ones that become an issue are the ones used in the merchant tables. The keys, and the cake/booze from the last event.  Check out Merchant/Shing Jea Monastery for what I'm talking about. (hmmm, looks like the older ones weren't perfectly square, but they weren't as far off from being square as yours.  If you aren't going to do thinks like bags, runes of holding or salvage/identity kits let me know and I'll at least get square ones of those up.)  Thanks again.  :)  --Rainith 02:15, 12 August 2006 (CDT)


 * I see what you're talking about. I'll start making perfect squares, and I was planning on uploading the other merchant items but changing all the links from .jpg to .png has made me nervous. I'll try doing that now. --Smurf 02:38, 12 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Much better. Thanks.  :)  --Rainith 02:53, 12 August 2006 (CDT)


 * Just curious if anyone knows (may pre-date Smurf's work) - was .png selected due to the image quality or the tranparent background? The reason I ask is that in the listings we're resizing the images, and resized .png images look pretty poor on the wiki, while .jpg resizes much cleaner. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:50, 12 August 2006 (CDT)


 * I unsure myself. Half the icons are png and the other half jpg with a few gif. I just want to get rid of the black/green background on these icons. I don't mind using jpg with a white background or using png. The Image use policy says to use png with icons that don't scale. At the time of uploading the material icons, they were only being used on their own page unscaled. After uploading they started becoming used as scaled icons ( like here). About half the merchant icons are png already so I figured might as well change them all to png. I'm willing to go either way just dunno which way to go. :S -- A confused Smurf 04:37, 12 August 2006 (CDT)
 * You're not the only one confused! And I do prefer the images with the white borders.  As these are icons, then GW:IMAGE does permit the use of png, as it's a better quality image (no degredation from compressing like what you get with jpg).  I'm wondering if we need to take this to the talk page for the community portal.  --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 10:24, 12 August 2006 (CDT)
 * We're partially saved - or even more confused. I just located the style and formatting guides.
 * The style and formatting guide for crafting materials shows to use .png
 * The stlye and formatting guide for salvage items shows to use .jpg
 * But I can't find a style and formatting guide for either collectable drops or for misc merchant items.  So the style guides don't appear to be complete and the ones that exist are inconsistent with each other.
 * I know that Rainith worked on these some - I'll post on his pages asking for his input. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 10:37, 12 August 2006 (CDT)


 * * grumble* I have some answers to this and in fact had a response about halfway written up, when I got a phone call here at work.  With our wonderful VoIP system about 1/3rd of the time when I get calls, my computer completely locks up.  This was one of those times and I completely lost everything I had typed up.  :(  I'm going to go eat lunch now, but I will put a response here later today (assuming I don't get anymore &^%%$ing phone calls).  --Rainith 14:12, 12 August 2006 (CDT)