Site suggestions/bugs

Another suggestion is to have a "Post Mortem" on the creation of
levels. They ahve to be well thought up rounded, good articles reviewed
by you Leperous to achieve a standard. Put them in the tutorials or
articles section. That way level designers can go back after releaseing
a level and say what they did right and wrong and what they'd change or
definately would not change if they had to redo the levels. I know I
could do like two at least, I'm sure reno could do some. THen you guys
can get your idol KFS to do a couple maybe and then newbies can read
them and learn from them!

Under the terms of his current employment contract, KFS is currently able to do jack s**t. :biggrin:

And less praise for Lep. There he is, having the time of his life in
hong kong and I'm suddenly getting suspicious amounts of spam... hmm.

I worship no mapper, but that is a very good idea nonetheless! :biggrin: Back in the day I wanted to break out my first handful of unreleased and s**tty, s**tty maps to write some articles on how not to map and how to avoid the newbie mistakes, but then my harddrive was wiped clean by someone else.

Thanks :biggrin: Yes, should let people upload example maps, never got round to it for some reason (probably having a subsystem to deal with the example maps, and what to do if they're rubbish etc.). A few weeks ago I went through a few tutorials and uploaded them locally, will have a fiddle with it next week.

And Ferret, that's quite a good idea but it could be hard to pull off well. It would have to be done on 'famous' maps that a lot of people have played and have comments from a few people on how certain areas work (or don't); maybe author's comments on how they'd change things would be better as footnotes. I can see a top-down image of the level, and having you click on the areas for comments and whatnot- maybe with connection/item placement overlays for it too with some cunning Javascript :smile:

How ever you can run it that would be awesome. You could write up a list of maps you want to test it on and then the level desingers could try to see if it would work maybe?

Postmortems would certainly be an excellent idea, I'd definately be all for writing a few. Reading postmortems of games in Game Developer or on Gamasutra is normally both a good read and enlightening on the game development process, and I've no doubts that the same could apply for level design.

exactly!

Would it be possible to raise the file size allowance on the pits a little?

NOOOOOOO

jk ;P

Do post mortems first than his "pit size whining" ;P

Would it be possible to raise the file size allowance on the pits a little?

amen.

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what's that ...

Dead ferrets.

You wouldn't have thought it would necessitate an explanation, but there you go :biggrin:

I want to put down the hugest sad face...instead I'll just leave myself to frown =(

I cant delete the images dir (or anything in it for that matter) in my pit. Can you delete it for me Lep thx :biggrin:

The upload allowance? Can't change that my horribly mutilated amigo- although it's technically 50mb the upload is limited by your connection speed and PHP script timeouts... if you need any large files uploading then you can e-mail them to me and I'll upload them for you.

Horribly mutilated? Speak for yourself rot-face. :smile:

I don't think answered questions are being counted anymore, although I'm not 100% sure.

edit: They aren't.

Nope, they're not.

something i noticed when i was editing my comp map profile. when i submited my edit, i think the pit seen the instance of '1<SUP>st</SUP>' again, and added another /sup tag, which got printed.

i dunno how it would work, but could you get it to check whether the ST already has the tags, and doesn't need them added again.

[edit] i've edited this post (as you can see from this), but the same thing isn't happening here. so i hit the edit and submit buttons without changing anything on the maps profile page, and it happened there again. i've left it for you to see, in case this sounds like babble to you. it does to me :smile: [/edit]

Don't know if its already been mentioned or not (don't fancy reading the previous 41 pages!), but on the maps forum, when the map is tied to the author's profile, instead of listing the number of pages in the thread it just says 'intro'.

Minor niggle but annoying (to me) :smile:

It's a new feature adam where a thread can have multiple chapters.

Yes, but what if you want to go to the certain page of a chapter?! That's like 1-2 more clicks!

If you click on the snark instead of the thread title it takes you to the newest post...kinda a workaround?

Didn't know I could do that :smile: That kinda sorts my issue then.

Bleh, I'll just get rid of that 1st 2nd etc. thing, though you can still use ^ to superscript things.

Adam, it says 'intro' because those are chapter threads- hopefully soon they'll say things other than that. If you want to read new posts, just click on the snark icon next to the topic title.

post mortems man! post mortems!

I can't yet, still away, and got a pile of maps to look through!

Not really a bug ... But it seems your 'keeping the lewdness down' campaign doesn't quite work with signatures.

(Not picking on them) But I just noticed it since fizscy46's signature is uncensored.

Thought you'd like to know :smile:

http://www.snarkpit.com/maps.php?map=1135

Something about that download counter doesn't seem QUITE right...

omfg h4x!!11eleven

Er, Okay. It went up by around 20 downloads in the last second or so :/

And the download doesn't seem to work, either.

Related problem, actually- the download link is a link back to the download link, which is a link back, etc. if you get what I mean, and it just circles round until PHP times out...

That's pretty nifty.

ReNo said:
http://www.snarkpit.com/maps.php?map=1135

Something about that download counter doesn't seem QUITE right...

:S I can't see a download counter on there :sad:

Lep took it away prolly.

Well, it was a nifty trick to boost your so-called "downloads". :smile:

Bug: At the stat page, there is a part for "top tutorial". The link
doesn't seem to work ... and "2004 Mapping Competition" is not a
tutorial, either, I think.

When I went to comment on Orpheus' HLCC setup tutorial, it wouldn't allow me to rate it, saying I had already rated it in another comment. Thing is, there was no other comment by me. Clicking on the "click here to edit this comment" link took me to my comment Campaignjunkie's Nightwatch map

Hmm, that bug would have been there since day one but no-one ever said! Thanks.

I uploaded a prefab, but it doesn't seem to want to be allowed for downloading nor show the picture.

Were there any error messages? I've never been able to fix that problem, BUT hopefully it should now not let you add the prefab if this happens... try it again :smile:

On another note, I did something quite spinkee here... but I can't remember what it was now /addled brain

Never gave me an error, but the page it went to after submitting was a blank page...

Might of just been the way my parents had the computer set up (Cause I know a lot of the interactive things are disabled on it)

EDIT: Now its saying my file, escalator.zip, isn't a .zip file when I submit it o_O...

Hmmm... Perhaps I should just not post it up. Let people find it on prefabland

I hate PHP sometimes. If it doesn't work now, then there's something up with your PC :/

Well, it is posting. But like before, no screenshot is appearing, and its not making a link to the file (But rather the main files folder).

So, screw it. I'm just wasting your time for my crappy escalator.

When I open up the box with the added emotions and my mouse hovers over the reply box the box with the emotions minimizes straight away.

BTW I am using ie6

Oh, managed to post it. You might want to look at it. Its a very nice prefab (Gotten lots of appraisal at prefabland)

It's in the mechanism section

It uploaded once I moved the pic and zip file onto my base C drive.

I don't use prefabs, but if its the same as the one in your "Gman death" map, then it does look pretty nice judging from the screens :smile:

Yep, almost identical (I added a few more things to the one in the gman levels, but you can't see that in the screenies)

If you look on the features page, the "newest HL review" part lists Abstract Towers by author "?", even though in the review itself it lists the author as Loco.

Take a look at my "magazine letter" thread - on editting a post, I can't put in more than one line break in a row or it does nothing.

Just testing it works on new posts....apparently it does :smile:

I reckon there should be an option to rate a map in its thread in the
maps forum. A graphical represention of the score would be nice too for
example a colour bar ranging from red to green or simply one to five
snarks.