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| =Official Text= | | ==To Do== |
| 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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| '''⊗''' Sometimes whatever you do to make it 8-bit, it will still show transparent text. The only option is to use the 24-bit version.
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| ==Pic Errors - Black Colour PICTURE== | |
| Two examples of the problem:<br>
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| Left=bad, Right=good
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| [[Image:Life-Pedia-SpitterL-(Apocalypse).png|left]]
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| [[Image:Life-Pedia-SpitLv2-(Apocalypse).png|right]]
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| The problem with trying to keep original paedia pics, besides manipulating the originals to cutting off the excess, is that any black RGB (0,0,0) areas become transparent as in left-side image.<br>
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| It is irrelevant if the pic is 24bit or 8bit colour.<br>
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| To solve the problem, the right-side pic has been '''Lightened 5%''' which is just enough to make black areas not black - and takes a few seconds to do.<br>
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| Its not the picture editor that is at fault for this effect but MediaWiki.
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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=
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Please add your suggestions to this informal page
To Do
Pick One!
- Overspawn walks thru some, demolishes others. List which is which. Add solution to Apoc'd Edits page.
- Weapon damage types icons added to Damage page. Enzyme icon is already made: GrownIn-Effect-Enzyme-(Apocalypse).png
- Buildings: combat tactics and general building interesting features text In-fill to each building page.
- Better pics of various plant growths which have an effect of some sort. New pics of all with black background.
- Quantum Physics page: split up the chart into sections to make it easy to search
- Agent Equipment: "UFOpaedia pic + Reticulan fonts" of weapons and ammution.
- Agent Equipment: icon pics of weapons using yellow background. Shows easy comparable scale of item.
- Cut Content page: go thru and removed repetative mention of <text in-game: none> and debug also etc. after the equip listing.
- Use XME to go thru all battelscape segments and list which ones are never used, then add to Cut Content page
- Alien Ship Technology: Propulsion, Energy, Control pages need
alot of work finishing. Better pics
- Base Locations: add percentage frequency to each layout shown, of getting a particular building for each difficulty.
- Better pics (black background + resize 200%) all unit 360deg. collage
- Cityscape and Tactical pages: pics with pink arrows and boxed text pointing to buttons could use a more thorough explaination.