User talk:Silverstrike/Archive

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 * Tullis 05:01, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi there!
Welcome to our wiki, and thank you for your contributions! There's a lot to do around here, so I hope you'll stay with us and make many more improvements.

I'm really happy to have you here, and look forward to working with you! Tullis 05:01, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

See also sections
Please don't put 'see also' on every article if it's not directly relevant; that's what links in the article are for. And consider what you add as a 'see also'. For example, Feros is not at all relevant to the MSV Cornucopia itself, but a mention of dragon's teeth may be. --Tullis 20:22, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Okay, I will try to limit the list to only the relevant links (Feros is not really a related). But I do think that the articles could be expanded to include the see also section - I believe it will help visitors to locate important bits of data even if they did not read the whole article, it also help by linking the relevant articles together. I decided to start adding them to articles -- do you disagree with that? --silverstrike 20:29, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * That seems fair enough, but don't go nuts with it. An example of a short, concise 'see also' section can be seen on the dark energy page, though I'd keep Wikipedia links out of it unless you're specifically editing a page about real-life scientific concepts that are better explained on Wikipedia. --Tullis 20:36, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I will try to follow this example, thanks :). RE:External links, I think that external links should go under External links section, or to give some indication that those links lead to external site. --silverstrike 20:45, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Images
Watch that you're not uploading near-identical images in a kind of flickbook style. Re: the Ashley pictures during the Udina / Council conversation. Near-identical pictures will be cut. An alternative is to upload them elsewhere and let me take a look at what you have. --Tullis 23:24, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, I just thought of uploading them and let you pick the ones you like, and delete the rest... I can do upload them somewhere else if you prefer... --silverstrike 23:28, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. Okay, it's just a lot easier for me to look at a gallery and pick individual images, than see a lot of images, see one we need or that looks particularly good, and delete everything else around it. --Tullis 23:37, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem, next time I'll upload it to some gallery image host and let you pick the ones you like... BTW, how is the naming I gave the images? Is it what you had in mind? --silverstrike 23:41, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Mmmyep, that's fine. Nice pics, too. --Tullis 23:46, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

PC Tweaks
As discussed I went through and edited the PC Tweaks article -- only slightly, as it turned out. Main changes were little alterations to sentence structure here and there to make it clearer. I also highlighted the warnings in orange to make them stand out. But please read it over and make sure I haven't mussed up your explanations of the PC tweaking in that editing pass, just in case. --Tullis 05:05, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Greasemonkey Script
I added your script, exactly as is, but it doesn't seem to be working. What's it intended to do, give a pop-up warning? --Tullis 02:01, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The script suppose to alert that the page is restricted and go back to the page you came from (which won't work if there is no history to go back, like opening the page in a new window/tab).
 * If the script doesn't work correctly (or not at all), I can try to debug it -just write what browser and greasemonkey version you are using. --silverstrike 02:28, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, I've tried some debugging, and it works okay for me on two different versions of Firefox. It could be the greasemonkey version (I'm using the latest - 0.8.20090123.1). I also updated the script a little to go back to masseffect.wikia.com if the page was opened in a new window/tab - let me know if it works or if there's something more I can tweak or fix in the script. --silverstrike 02:58, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Another issue I would suggest: we have very few pages actually categorised under Mass Effect 2, and a lot of pages where there's ME2 spoilers. Would it be possible to block all pages with the spoiler tag, rather than the category? --Tullis 17:06, September 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, its possible. The problem I see is that allot of characters (including Shepard) and some location, have or will have that spoiler warning. Maybe removing content below the spoiler tag, or making the font as the background color. Another option, is to create a spoiler ending tag, and removing any content between the two tags. --silverstrike 17:12, September 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * I have updated my user page with another two versions of the restriction script. The last one, removes the content of the spoiler (by searching for spoiler ending tag, which I manually hardcoded into the Tali'Zorah nar Rayya page) and leave the rest intact. I still need to do some work on this, to accomedate for pages that don't have the ending tag (in which case, the page will redirect back), and if there is more then one spoiler tag (which won't be hidden by the current script). The real problem is finding someone who could manually insert those scripts... --silverstrike 20:09, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * I guess there's no way to add it directly into the spoiler tag code somehow? --Tullis 20:12, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * No, the spoiler tags only indicate that the following section contain spoilers, it does not have any mechanism to contain the actual spoiler paragraph(s) (I guess we could change that, but we still need to alter all the pages that uses that tag). I can create a template for ending spoilers, or something like it - then authors could insert that tag at the proper place. --silverstrike 20:18, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but I don't really want beginning and end of spoiler tags. Is there nothing we could embed in the spoiler tag that would work? --Tullis 20:19, September 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * We could do something like:


 * But we will still need to go through every page that uses that tag. The current system for spoiler tags does not indicate what the content of the spoiler. --silverstrike 20:29, September 11, 2009 (UTC)


 * Not to repeatedly sound dense, but what about blocking pages containing the phrase "Mass Effect 2 spoilers"? --Tullis 20:38, September 11, 2009 (UTC)


 * Already did that. Look at the second script on my user page. --silverstrike 20:49, September 11, 2009 (UTC)


 * Wow. Look at that. I out-densed myself! : ) Sorry. --Tullis 20:50, September 11, 2009 (UTC)

ME fanfiction wiki
Het Silverstrike. Im Kamikaz, one of the administrators of the Mass Effect fanfiction wiki. I saw some of your contributions and was wondering if you would like to help work on the ME fanfiction wiki. Think about it.--Kamikaz 06:07, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

ALERT!
Whatever you've recently done to the templates has apparently messed with the Image: prefixes on the wiki. Wanted Pages is now considering those images to be wanted articles and is listing them accordingly. Please investigate and correct this ASAP. --Tullis 12:59, September 24, 2009 (UTC)
 * Already done so. Sorry for the mess, I forgot to prefix the templates code with the Media keyword :]. Will be more careful next time... --silverstrike 14:04, September 24, 2009 (UTC)
 * OK. I'll check Wanted Pages when it re-caches tomorrow. --Tullis 14:29, September 24, 2009 (UTC)
 * Please check the templates code again. I am still seeing one or two instances of this error, and the Wanted Pages in question have a "Madia" prefix. Spelling error? --Tullis 15:07, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Could be, I'll recheck the templates. --silverstrike 15:15, September 26, 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm seeing that wanted-files-as-wanted-pages error again. See Special:WantedPages. --Tullis 14:59, October 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * Didn't notice that. I'll be working on fixing the problem. --silverstrike 03:17, October 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * The reason for the massive list is the wanted armor images for the ItemsList template - a bit of rewriting is needed to remove those requests (that are somewhat valid - but take too much space). The question is, do I move it to the wanted files, or remove it altogether? --silverstrike 03:22, October 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Wanted Files is where it should be, if you're looking for images. Wanted Pages is for redlinked articles. (Sorry about the delay in responding.) --Tullis 16:39, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, I can't seem to move the red linked images to the wanted files for some unknown reason. I think I'll just remove the image altogether until the appropriate images will be uploaded (still waiting for your input in regards to this). --silverstrike 16:54, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know, but sorting through them and correcting the aspect ratio for all the armour and weapon images is a big job and my evenings are currently not free to handle it. --Tullis 16:58, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not pushing the issue - those things take time. I made another change to the template to move the list of images to the wanted files - if it won't work, then I'll change the template to remove the images altogether. --silverstrike 17:11, October 28, 2009 (UTC)

Solution
Okay, the change I made to the template removed the wanted images from both the wanted pages and wanted files - what makes them somewhat invisible, so I believe the matter is closed. I can also change some of the other pages to remove them from the list of wanted pages if you think that there is a point in doing this. --silverstrike 15:08, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

Armor Shots
Hey there, Tullis sent me to you ;). I wanted to help with armor pics, if needed. I have all armor images in .psd file, which means I can easily edit whole batch of them, regarding aspect ratio, file type, size, etc. I just need info about required standards. Also I'd like to know if they need to be inventory screens (in case of Wrex a 'toggle helmet' box overlaps armor).Thv-1 23:17, February 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * The images should show as much of the armor as possible - the problem I see with including the entire set is the height of the image that will exceed the height of the armor table. We can experiment and see what looks good and not taking too much space - maybe even taking shots without the character(s) head - we want to show the armor and not the character, so decapitating the character is not a problem. again, play with the images to see what looks best.
 * Regarding the standards:
 * File type should be PNG, it's looks good no matter the presentation size, and the file size is not much bigger then JPG.
 * size and aspect-ratio are up to you, when I'll have some test images I could do some test to see what works best.
 * I think that inventory images will be the cleanest and put focus on the armor rather then on the environment. In the armor tab in the inventory there's a button at the upper right side that removes most of the GUI and shows the full armor without interference (forgot the the button text, could be Details or something to that affect). --silverstrike 00:19, February 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * As Krogan armor is the biggest one, I think it should lay out ratio standards. With it 3:5 works best. Anyway, should I just upload some test pics or somehow send them to you beforehand? And another thing about standards: what about filenames? --Thv-1 01:20, February 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Upload the files in the name format:  - ,  , etc. Once we have 3-5 image examples, I'll do some testing to see if everything is working properly. --silverstrike 05:56, February 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * First three are up for testing: [1], [2], [3]. --Thv-1 09:27, February 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * The Warlord armor looks good, but I see an issue with the other two because they share a name with other brands on the table (Mantis/Predator/Scorpion/Ursa Armor, for example) - I'll rework the code to fix this. Other then that, the image that I can see looks good and does not exceed the table height. --silverstrike 10:12, February 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Then I'll keep 3:5 aspect ratio and start uploading the rest of images. As for human armors - male or female version? Since there is one filename. (Sorry for all the questions, but you're the mastermind here ;) ).--Thv-1 10:31, February 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * I leave that decision up to you - I have no idea. Maybe Tullis have some input on the matter.
 * Don't hesitate in asking questions, I know there are still some issues that need discussing. You could take a look at the template talk page for the entire discussion about the armor pages, it's a long read, but maybe you could find some answers there.
 * Regarding the images that are not showing: the template shows the image based on the first brand name - when calling the template, an author can specify what brand to show, so I don't think that we should change that behavior - once all the images are uploaded the matter will resolve itself. --silverstrike 12:43, February 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Alternatively, I can make merged images for humans, male & female. At the cost of 2x width, though, so I don't know if template can accept them.
 * There is also issue of shared armor models, i.e. Mantis-Predator L/M/H. In such cases, should I upload the same picture for each armor? --Thv-1 13:03, February 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Give the merged model a try, It might make the images too small, but with some tweaking it still might work.
 * The Mantis-Predator L/M/H have different tables and look slightly different - I don't really see the problem. --silverstrike 13:26, February 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Take all 'console' (Hazard, Crisis, etc.) armors for example: there is only one model per armor, and as such one image, shared by light, medium and heavy type. To make pics work with template, I would need to upload them x3, with respective (Heavy-, Medium-, Light- ) prefixes. Right? It is not a problem for me at all, I just wanted confirmation before uploading multiple identical pictures.
 * And here are three 'merged' pics, so you could see if they works with template: [1], [2], [3]. --Thv-1 13:55, February 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * If you look at the Human Armor page you can see that the image looks tiny (or maybe it's just me?) is that the original file size? If so, try enlarging the image until it fits the height of the table.
 * Scratch that. I just need to alter the image width in the template to compensate... --silverstrike 14:08, February 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Made the change and it seem good, let me know what you think. --silverstrike 14:12, February 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks good for me :). But in case of krogan & turian armors, images exceed table height. Is it supposed to be like that? --Thv-1 14:20, February 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * That's because the krogan/turian images show only one gender (obviously). I'll edit the template to compensate. --silverstrike 14:23, February 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that issue is fixed. I'll continue to monitor the template in any case. --silverstrike 14:35, February 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * If the armors look the same, then I see no reason to create duplicates, I'll just alter the template to compensate. Other then that, The images look great :). --silverstrike 14:06, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

FlyCam
"Hello,

Help please with command "toggleflycam", when i use it shephard can't move (only squad commands) how fix it? May be i need bind keys?

For example i need: camera hold position and then i can move actor (Shephard).
 * While you use the flycam, the movement keys control the camera. Just run "toggleflycam" again to revert back to third person view. --silverstrike 00:03, February 11, 2010 (UTC)

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add: not understand what i must do... i need this: video example

w_w_w.crystal.z-host.ru/camera_walk.zip

Shop Inventories
TBH I was wanting to give up on the shop inventory template. I started it at Template:ME2Store but sort of gave up because (a) it was more complex than i realised (i'm new to templating) and (b) the weapon infobox templates were becoming a handful. Dch2404 19:33, February 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem, I'll continue to work on my version and take what I can from your endeavor. --silverstrike 19:42, February 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * I've changed ME2Store for what he wanted (I think), hopefully (he) or you can learn or get something useful out of it.--0333 20:03, February 15, 2010 (UTC)

Hi
Just wanted to apolgize for causing a revert war a couple days agoThe geth rule 06:22, February 28, 2010 (UTC)