User talk:Rainith/Title boxes

Section 0
Oooh, pretty. Are you going to do any other titles like that? I just happily beat factions and was about to work on my user page tonight... --Crazytreeboy 23:09, 24 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Damn, you got this here before I even finished putting the note on the test page. :)  That is my end goal, to create one for each title track.  I've wanted to do this for a while, but never got around to it.  These first 2 were the easy ones as I just used the normal Kurzick/Luxon boxes with minor changes.  I have some basic ideas for the others, but nothing firm (this is as far as I'm going to go tonight I think).  --Rainith 23:16, 24 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Well, this page is totally watched now. I'd love to help, but... I have NO idea how templates work at this point. But I'll keep an eye out and comment on colors/designs ETC.  Thanks! --Crazytreeboy 23:20, 24 October 2006 (CDT)
 * For some odd reason Rainith's test page has been on my watchlist for ages, unlike now he must have had something interesting on it then :P No seriously this is all cool but I'd recommend changing the wikified text colour on the Gladiator Box. --Xasxas256
 * You don't like the idea of being able to see it in 3-D (with the appropriate 3-D glasses)? Yeah I was thinking the same thing, but I was going to sleep on it.  Guess not anymore.  As for it being on your watch list, it could have been anything.  I start all my new projects here, so you were probably watching one of those.  --Rainith 23:44, 26 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Watching or stalking definitions are blurry sometimes! Althought I must say using your voodoo admin powers to delete the page each time does make it harder to stalk keep track of what's going on ;) --Xasxas256 00:19, 27 October 2006 (CDT)

Just letting ya know... your Unlucky box template thingy (the one with the black cat, adorable by the way) has a typo: This user has achieved the title Test by loosing 123,456 games of chance. Bolded should be losing. - Aeothan "We're almost there..." 12:24, 30 November 2006 (CST)
 * Heh, I suppose I could try to claim that it was a reference to Street Fighter II, but really it was just an error on my part, I'll get it fixed. --Rainith 17:11, 5 December 2006 (CST)

Great idea - I'm watching for these to migrate to the general template space. On the icons for the ones in development, I think a compass would be easier to recognise vs. a map at the icon size. The only proposed icon that bothers me is a res sig for the survivor title track - anyone on that track would never need a res (although the rest of the team may, as they tend to bail if/when the going gets tough), so just seems backwards to use that icon. The red cross is a better option - not sure what else may work. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:31, 5 December 2006 (CST)
 * Thanks for the suggestions. I really am still working on these, I know it isn't going very quickly.  I've had very little luck in finding a good compass icon (and have no skills with which to make one myself).  I have one that I will use (probably in the next couple of days), but I don't think it is very good.  As for the Survivor one, my only concern about using a red cross, is that The Red Cross has the trademark to that and has been threatening to sue game companies that use it (to designate health packs, etc...) in their games.  Maybe I'll take a page from Penny Arcade's book and change the colors on it.  --Rainith 17:53, 5 December 2006 (CST)
 * I hadn't thought about the lawsuits - thanks for reminding me. If a color change doesn't work, then I suppose the icon could just be a skill icon such as the one for Healing Breeze or even Orison of Healing. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:58, 5 December 2006 (CST)


 * Cartographer box is up. I'm not thrilled with the icon as I said.  Also I'm not thrilled w/ the color or the fact that the only thing that differentiates the different campaign titles are the words "Tyrian / Canthan / Elonian."  The alternative would be to make different boxes for each one with different color backgrounds (maybe with different icons, what about one of the location icons from the map?  Do we have ones that are unique to each campaign?  Other than the Mission icons?).  --Rainith 21:29, 9 December 2006 (CST)


 * You could perhaps use the town or outpost icons as they are different for each campaign, I think you may have to do a different box for each campaign so you could use different colours. --Lemming64 13:03, 10 December 2006 (CST)

Title boxes for working on titles / box size
After seeing that someone else had already started using these title boxes, and that they were also using them for titles that they were working towards, but had not yet achieved, I decided to alter them so they could be better used to show that. See the Champion title box to see what I'm talking about. I'll also edit the drunkard one and put that on my user page so as to show one "in the wild."

Also I think in order to get the longer named titles to work and keep the sizes of the boxes uniform, I'm going to have to make the boxes 4 lines tall, bigger than I'd like, but I don't think I'm going to be able to get around it. --Rainith 02:29, 9 December 2006 (CST)
 * I personally really really like all of the title boxes you're making. They look great. As you said above, they're a bit big, but im definately going to be using them when you're done with them all. (Note that on my page I like user boxes, lol) Keep up the designing koolness (or something neat that I would say but can't think of right now) --- Cynn 13:20, 12 December 2006 (CST)


 * I concur with Miss Cynn. Your work is unmatched, and as someone who was looking for Userboxes, but didn't have any level of code knowledge, I thank you most wholeheartedly.  If you are so kind as to let me use your "Drunkard" one, I will hold you in the highest regard, and may even share some of my firewater with you.


 * Warmest Regards...--Carnival King 00:15, 13 December 2006 (CST)


 * Anyone is free to use these boxes, just copy the way I inserted them on my test page, changing the title names and number accordingly for your account/character. Until I am done with them and move them into the "general populace" they may be changed without notice (as I state in the comment on my user page), but don't let that stop you from using them if you want to.  When I am finished with them and move them, I'll either notify the people using them to update their pages, or do it myself (depending on how many people are using them at that time).  And thanks for the kind words. :)  Makes me feel good considering I'm having trouble figuring out something on one of these boxes tonight. :(  --Rainith 00:28, 13 December 2006 (CST)


 * Everything worthwhile takes ages...like getting a box to work right, or getting the Drunkard title. :D  --Carnival King 01:24, 13 December 2006 (CST)


 * lol, agreed. Your userboxes are great (take it from me, i have 29 userboxes on my page.) as well as the fact that the drunkard title is taking too long >_<, and as far as the scaling issue, the icons appear fine on my screen as well. And a suggestion after you're done with the main part, is to put up images for people to replace the completed mission icon, with one that is missing the bonus or master level for if they are still working towards the title, like if they're just mopping up a few bonuses then they can replace the image that way. Though im pretty sure that would require a bit of code changing and I know how much of a headache coding those things can be >_< , especially if you have to try to wing parts of them. If you need any image help let me know, I'm a graphic/web designer with WAY too much time on my hands. (as you may notice by me being on wiki quite often.)
 * Well, that concludes my really too long bit of input :D --- Cynn 19:01, 14 December 2006 (CST)

protector
I as having a little play with the icons and I think the mission completion box icons look better if they are a little larger - that kind of thing --Lemming64  04:19, 14 December 2006 (CST)
 * The issue would be the other 2 campaigns, as they use PNG format images, and those don't scale well. I'll look into this later today (at work now) and I may just change them to JPG and scale them.  Thanks for the suggestion.  :)  --Rainith 12:10, 14 December 2006 (CST)
 * well that one I rescaled just above is a png and it scales fine on my screen. --Lemming64  14:33, 14 December 2006 (CST)
 * Running into the scaling issue with [[Image:Cantha3Sword.png|44px]], going to have to convert to jpg (plus shrink it even more as that one is just too tall, even at 44px). --Rainith 00:28, 6 January 2007 (CST)

Defender of Ascalon
I had an idea about the icon for this title. Why not make it the icon on Gwens shirt? She is the eternal mystery of the pre-searing, and known by every Guild Wars player. The background could be the light blue that the rest of her shirt is. I do also like the idea of the red iris flower though, one of the few items that can only be found in pre-searing Ascalon. Hope this either works as an idea for you or sparks you into further inspiration. --Cynn 17:01, 15 December 2006 (CST)


 * For now, I'm going to go with the flower, but mostly just because I can't get a good clear capture of Gwen's shirt graphic. If you can grab one that looks good, upload it and let me know.  I'll see if it can be shrunk down to size and still work for the picture.  --Rainith 22:28, 4 January 2007 (CST)

.plan
Ok, .plan is to complete these boxes before the end of the week. I've let them go unfinished far to long, and I'd like to complete them before ANet adds more titles. ;) --Rainith 22:41, 3 January 2007 (CST)
 * So far so good, just two more to do and the Protector title icons to tweak. Will hopefully complete tomorrow night (PST).  --Rainith 22:47, 4 January 2007 (CST)
 * Done with the last two boxes. Still need to adjust the icons in the Protector boxes.  Taking a bit of a break for a while, will finish in a hour or so.  --Rainith 23:23, 5 January 2007 (CST)
 * Done done now. --Rainith 00:52, 6 January 2007 (CST)

Gamer
You could use this for the icon - unfortunately not too original though. --Lemming64  06:30, 5 January 2007 (CST)
 * I have an idea for the Gamer box, but I need to test it to see if it will work. If it doesn't work, that computer (or a different computer type icon) may be my best bet.  --Rainith 12:09, 5 January 2007 (CST)
 * Well you can see what you think of my idea for the Gamer box, it isn't brilliant, but I think it works. --Rainith 23:23, 5 January 2007 (CST)
 * I think as someone who's pr377¥ Ð4r|\| l337 himself, the colours are just not "leet enough". In other words you can't really read them and blindness isn't leet! --Xasxas256 23:28, 5 January 2007 (CST)
 * Well, I went with gold and yellow, to try to add to the 'bling' factor, but what would you suggest. I don't want to change the background color though as that is one of the things that I used in all the title boxes.  --Rainith 23:32, 5 January 2007 (CST)

Need a box for Sweet Tooth track
Your going to need to make a box for sweet tooth track now. :) Gandorf 20:01, 14 February 2007 (CST)
 * Replied on my talk page (didn't notice your note here), but yes I will do that this weekend. I already have visions of sugar plums, running through my head.  Or was it dancing in my head?  I can't remember.  :)  --Rainith 23:58, 14 February 2007 (CST)