Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - Super Mario World hacking - Naming Guidelines [Rules] -or- If I renamed your thread, read this.
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Sukasa
Posts: 370/1981 |
That's right, too. |
gnkkwinrrul
Posts: 537/647 |
If you had to think like a spamming n00b, though, you would think they suck.  |
Sukasa
Posts: 342/1981 |
No, the rules are good. They do not suck. I do try to follow them whenever possible. |
little_devil_freak2000
Posts: 4/12 |
this sux |
Aioria
Posts: 1179/1567 |
i always follow the guidelines  |
Ailure
Posts: 5789/11162 |
...you know it's yet again not followed. 
Maybe we should let it die down, or we have to rename every thread again. |
cpubasic13
Posts: 451/1346 |
I still follow the guidelines. It makes it easier for people to know what my thread is about. If you unsticky it and have someone post in it, then it is sure to grab lots of people's attention... hopefully... or better yet, say "Hack Release: Guidelines"  That would get people's attention.
In all seriousness, I am still going to use this, in fact, I might add a link to this thread in my sig just to hopefully get some people to read it. I might not though... |
Ailure
Posts: 4157/11162 |
Heh, blame me for the bump. I just told Jesper "This thing hadn't been enforced". And the post above his was a try to revive this thread, which I wasn't succeful with.
Why not unsticky it for awhile? Probably dosen't help but... more sticky threads in a forum = the less people care about them. This forum have the most sticky threads.  |
Surlent
Posts: 544/1077 |
This cannot be enforced. The idea really is neat, as it helps a lot; but as many people know - many people do not read stickied threads, and even if you came up with uber-huge font size, ultra fast marquee-tags and blinking, it won't be read by everyone.
Putting the staff in charge might be helpful, but renaming every thread and cropping longer titles is not only time-consuming but might be annoying over time |
Jesper
Posts: 599/2390 |
Bump.
Come on people. |
Ailure
Posts: 2901/11162 |
And well, I just noticed. People didn't follow this "naming guideline" very much it seems...
None of the threads on the first pages uses [stuff] did everyone forgot about it, or was it just a bad idea after all? |
Surlent
Posts: 246/1077 |
I use PNG all the way, except I plan to work with animated stuff; MNG is superiror to animated GIF, but as posted above a very low number of browsers actually support it.
PNG simply is superior and, hey, ZSNES already allows the direct dump in PNG format (besides BMP ), it has less space and more advantages like support of one alpha-channel, semi-transparency in supporting image viewers and browsers, up to 16.7 million of colors and it's algorithm is free unlike CompuServes GIF  |
BMF98567
Posts: 156/1261 |
I think you're a bit confused, there, Jesper. The SNES is only capable of displaying 249 colors at a time (16 palettes x 15 colors each + background color), unless advanced PPU features are used. Thus, the vast majority of the time, GIF works well for SNES screenshots. But, as you said, when transparency and fancy SuperSmooth2XGlossyChunkyEagleCrap filters are used, it suddenly doesn't work so well.
I use GIF mostly out of habit (and the fact that PSP has crashed my computer while saving PNGs in the past), but I'm slowly starting to migrate towards PNG. I only wish all browsers had decent PNG support...I usually can't view them outside of Web pages without putting a space after the URL for some reason.  |
Ailure
Posts: 1378/11162 |
And I would prefer that people took screenshots without filters.
But heh, that's just my opinion. I'm not fond how it looks with this filters. I like the pixels...
I almost always use PNG expect for thoose cases where JPG is better, PNG can have very big file sizes on photos. |
Jesper
Posts: 300/2390 |
Originally posted by 404
Originally posted by Wlokos
Sounds like A cool idea. It helps, definitly a good idea.
Nice addition.
Why not accept GIF screenshots? Jeez. I can make a 512 color GIF for example, although wether or not it displays correctly is another story, but still.
And for the love of God STOP USING TXT EXTENSIONS
Especially when you link to an image. I HATE having to save it, rename it, and then open it again.
It's a pain in the ass, thanks.
Case in point: GIF format allows 256 colors. SNES screen = 256*224 = 57344 pixels. One tile = 8*8 = 64 pixels. One tile allows a number of optional colors depending on BPP, but let's say 4. 57344 / 64 = 896 concurrent tiles, each capable of having around 4 different colors. That's 3584 colors. Add to this possible filters emulators/people might apply (eagle, 2xSAI) and you've got a shitload of colors.
I'm not at all buying the not everyone can create PNGs argument. There are freeware or atleast shareware programs for this all over the internet. The format has been around for ten years now; there's been plenty of time for programs to support it, and fact is most programs do; viewers, editors and browsers alike. So if you can't provide a PNG, it's you being lazy, that's all. Can't install programs on your computer? Send the hack to someone else and ask them to take screenshots. There's just no excuse for this. |
Xkeeper
Posts: -4527/-863 |
Originally posted by Wlokos
Sounds like A cool idea. It helps, definitly a good idea.
Nice addition.
Why not accept GIF screenshots? Jeez. I can make a 512 color GIF for example, although wether or not it displays correctly is another story, but still.
And for the love of God STOP USING TXT EXTENSIONS
Especially when you link to an image. I HATE having to save it, rename it, and then open it again.
It's a pain in the ass, thanks. |
Wlokos
Posts: 17/176 |
Sounds like A cool idea. It helps, definitly a good idea. |
Darth Coby
Posts: 250/1371 |
Yeah, Opera does that too. |
Surlent
Posts: 77/1077 |
Originally posted by Janus
Hey, dunno if I should put this here, but for the love of god, not everyone's browser reads txt as an image, so get a real host. There's more than enough free hosts that allow image linking. Find one and go there instead of this txt crap.
Yes, previous versions of Mozilla and Firebird displayed the program code in the tab/window usually when attempting to open a renamed .PNG to .TXT file on Geoshitties Geocities instead of the image file. It goes vice versa with many other file types like .GIF, etc. ... even .RAR sometimes displayed the code than to download the files for me 
From the improvements, all builds from Firefox 0.8 on should be able to handle these "foreign" extension better than in 0.7 or earlier, but I didn't try it yet
Lycos and Angelfire should offer true remote linking, but I don't know which is the BEST freehost, if you only need to host some screens and demo(s) from your hacK. In Germany, Lycos.de fits very well ... unlimited bandwith, remote linking work though |
Janus
Posts: 33/34 |
Hey, dunno if I should put this here, but for the love of god, not everyone's browser reads txt as an image, so get a real host. There's more than enough free hosts that allow image linking. Find one and go there instead of this txt crap. |
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