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| =Official Text=
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| This is what goes '''after''' any UFOpaedia entry on <u>every</u> page that has one. Word for word taken from '''pedia.mt'''.
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| ''From: Apocalypse Ufopaedia''
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| The format: italics to denote that it is not part of the text, double-space after the official text, no period at end. eg:
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| Something official text from the in-game UFOpaedia sourced from, word for word, ''pedia.mt'' file NO LINKS WITHIN official text example example example example example. ''From: Apocalypse Ufopaedia''
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| =UFOpedida Pic Not Showing=
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| ''typically: Error:Bin/Bash yadda yadda.
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| ===The Solution===
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| The problem seems to be using '''<nowiki>|thumb|</nowiki>''' option in the ''image command line''. I have found that using '''<nowiki>|frame|</nowiki>''' option instead will allow the pic to be inside a box. eg:
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| The following pic is:
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| <nowiki>[[Image:Facil-Build2x2-(Apocalypse).png|frame|left|THIS PIC is using "frame"]]</nowiki>
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| [[Image:Facil-Build2x2-(Apocalypse).png|frame|left|THIS PIC is using "frame"]]
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| The following pic is:
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| <nowiki>[[Image:Facil-Build2x2-(Apocalypse).png|thumb|left|THIS PIC is using "thumb"]]</nowiki>
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| [[Image:Facil-Build2x2-(Apocalypse).png|thumb|left|THIS PIC is using "thumb"]]
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| Use frame instead of thumb in your code
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| =UFOpaedia Image Format=
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| Making pedia images uniformly.
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| * Cut pedia pic so that left and right edges do not have border colours (white edge typically). Helps to zoom in alot for pixel-perfect cutting. Top and bottom do not have border colours.
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| * Final pic size should be either 329x479 or 329x480. If wildly out from this guide you are not using original pedia pics!
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| * Insert text using '''Reticulan''' fontsize= 34 using an 'almost black' colour (see Pic Errors - Black Colour, below). Black (R0, G0, B0) cannot be used! To stop having transparent text, use (R5, G5, B5) as the font colour.
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| ** (R8, G2, B2) works if you still get transparent text.
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| * Align text by hand roughly equi-distance from top-left corner. Uppercase and lowercase is the same.
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| * Text too long? Take the grey bar, cut it then resize it 200% height only. Reinsert the new text bar to align with the top corner - no colour should show above with this double height bar. Insert text so that top-gap, middle-gap, and bottom-gap are approximately equal. Doesn't have to be perfect, but just look uniform.
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| * Save file as PNG 256colour (8bit). This is ideal vs quality whereas TrueColour (24bit) gives minimal quality increase at the expense of triple the filesize.
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| * Rename file as Type-Pedia-Name-(Apocalypse).png<br>
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| ==Pic Errors - Black Colour==
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| If a pic contains a black colour, that part will become transparent! Manually in-filling all black areas of pic with very dark grey could be a fix, but then its not the original pic anymore. This error seems unavoidable.<br>
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| * example of bad pedia pic: https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Brainsucker_Launcher&oldid=114818 <br>
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| * "Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: warning: ....etc." '''is solved'''<br>
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| * Some pics have not been showing up properly since ''forever'' (2006): https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Personal_Teleporter&oldid=13076!
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| * Excessive black area in pic detracts, bucket-fill, 5% similarity really helps.
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| ** typical [[Personal_Teleporter|example]]
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| ==Confusing Wording==
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| Clarification: "Security Guards" wording should not be used anywhere.
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| * Building Security or Guards = note uppercase, these are the generic defence forces (not cultists, gangsters, police or thugs).
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| * Defence Force = any npc (except Corporate Thugs) who appears on a search/raid to defend the building against X-Com or Aliens.<br>
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| ==To Do== | | ==To Do== |
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| '''Pick One!''' | | '''Pick One!''' |
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| ===EASY===
| | * Turn-based page needs in-fill from someone who uses it. <s>Real-Time page is done.</s> |
| * GET PICS of battlescape aliens! The user should be shown what they look like. | | * <s>Overspawn walks thru some, demolishes others. List which is which. Add solution to Apoc'd Edits page.</s> |
| * Make an extra column in [[Base_Locations_(Apocalypse)|Locations]] <s>to provide info on how many launch tubes are available for each building listed</s> with a numbered listing AND those numercials overlaid onto each cityscape map to indicate the base position. The compass directions are confusing. | | * <s>Weapon damage types icons added to [[Damage_Modifiers_(Apocalypse)|Damage]] page.</s> |
| * <s>Add rating to org pages about alien infiltration '''speed'''. Building pages have '''potential''' to infiltration, not speed.</s> | | * <s>Armor page four into one - forgot to list this one, but now its done.</s> |
| * Buildings: combat tactics and general building interesting features text In-fill to each [[Buildings_(Apocalypse)|building page]]. | | * Buildings: combat tactics and general building interesting features text In-fill to each [[Buildings_(Apocalypse)|building page]]. |
| * <s>Keyboard Commands: NEED MORE key-combos although it still is a WIP. Format doesn't matter just yet, just list them for now.</s> | | * Better pics of various plant growths which have an effect of some sort. New pics of all with black background. |
| * <s>Alien Buildings: UFOpaedia pic for each structure with briefing screen (with text) which shows the target objective.</s> '''DONE'''
| | * <s>Bio-Chemistry and Quantum Physics pages: split up the chart into sections to make it easy to search.</s> |
| * <s>Facility: under-construction facility pic (only two needed: one of 1x1 and one of 2x2 facility) of in-game overhead view at lev3, placed somewhere.</s>
| | * Agent Equipment: "UFOpaedia pic + Reticulan fonts" of weapons and ammunition. |
| * <s>Exotic Artifacts: split into into two pages. One for alien equipment and the other for UFO equipment (armaments and devices) so that each part can be put under its relevant section.</s> '''DONE'''
| | * <s>Agent Equipment: icon pics of weapons using yellow background. Shows easy comparable scale of item.</s> |
| * <s>Civilian Vehicles: same format with UFOpaedia pic + Reticulan fonts.</s>
| | * <s>Cut Content page: go thru and removed repetative mention of <text in-game: none> and debug also etc. after the equip listing.</s> |
| * Pics of various pant growths which have an effect of some sort.
| | * Use [[Utilities_(Apocalypse)|XME]] to go thru all battlescape segments and list which ones are never used, then add to Cut Content page |
| * <s>Complete org pages for SELF (pedia pic needs editing), X-Com, Alien</s>
| | * <s>Alien Ship Technology: Propulsion, Energy, Control pages need alot of work finishing. Better pics</s> |
| | | * Base Locations: add percentage frequency to each layout shown, of getting a particular building for each difficulty. |
| ===MEDIUM===
| | * Better pics (black background + resize 200%) all unit 360deg. collage |
| * In-fill of [[X-COM_-_At_The_Start]].
| | * Cityscape and Tactical pages: pics with pink arrows and boxed text pointing to buttons could use a more thorough explaination. |
| * <s>Rewrite Hybrid Vehicles page or unlink it. It seems that vehicle pages are too convoluted and repetative. Consolidation needed so that one page only for each vehicle which should include -all- info on that one page.</s> | |
| * Agent Equipment: UFOpaedia new-version aka "UFOpaedia pic + Reticulan fonts" (no thumbnail error) pics to right of boxed official text for each page (gun and ammo). Consider UFOpaedia text for ammuntion as well. | |
| * <s>Agent Medals: Rewrite whole page removing boxed parts to be same format as other pages.</s> | |
| * <s>Incendiary: Add an explaination somewhere about it. Either expand Damage Modifier page or within title page of Agent Equipment.</s> '''DONE'''
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| * <s>Tactics Page Links: fix each page with proper "previous: the page", "next: the page", "home: the tactics title" etc. links to make reading more fluid.</s> '''DONE''' | |
| * In-game UFOpedia has title pages for the subsections. Attempt to use those pics for completeness - not sure how yet!.
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| * <s>Unlink humans, hybrids, androids pages that had wall-of-text and redundant stuff. One page not three!</s>
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| ===HARD===
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| * REWRITE alien gas page. What a mess! | |
| * Infiltration Force Combined: Gather all information on each UFO's alien loadout and make a chart which combines them. Add it to: "infiltration page" or "title page of UFO craft" or "UFO incursions page" or its own seperate page.
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| * Alien Ship Technology: Propulsion, Energy, Control pages need <s>alot of work</s> finishing. UFOpaedia pic and in-game battlescape pics of each type eg: egg of fuel energy + bone barrier. eg: 4-aspect pic of control pedestal. eg: <there are no propulsion-things!> | |
| * <s>Battlescape Tactics: remove "Building Bombing" section from here and make a new page with in-depth info about cityscape style 'missions' so that battlescape stuff isn't mixed with cityscape-only stuff AND move "Illegal Flyer" newly added text from summary page to its own page (and expand it with info derived from Apoc'd).</s>
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| * <s>Orange Pad Timers: I've worked out so far (SH, Food chamber) that an alien spawns in -minimum- every 35secs ...but not uniformly. If somethin busy is happening then the spawn does not happen. Busy? Using alot of mind control on Sectoids and could manually delay a spawn 'at best' for 7minutes. So... TODO? '''1'''.Check spawn times for each alien building. '''2'''. Check spawn timer for each difficulty. </s> '''DONE''' | |
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| ===EDITED SOLUTIONS===
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| * Base Defence: (a base with all facs and allowing the hostiles to explore, edited with Apoc'd) find out where/what/why base invaders goto when in your base. | |
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| =On-going Rewrites=
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| * Aliens: multiple pages with the same stuff will be condensed into one major page each for each alien with a format that is <u>easy to read and uniform across all alien lifeform pages</u>. They will be '''heavily''' de-waffled. | |
| * UFOs: pages with two almost identical pictures? Really? ...it will be done.
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| [[Category: Apocalypse]] | | [[Category: Apocalypse]] |