Site suggestions/bugs

I would hope that people would read pages and see that a) it says "Half-Life" at the top, and b) they can see the "Half-Life 2" link! One thing I've learnt over the last few weeks working for my university website is that there are a lot of dumb (or lazy) people out there Anyway good idea about changing to HL2 as the default game.

/me is more tired, than lazy, but i did over look it, even when i was point roughly in the correct direction, so perhaps it wasn't completely bad that i noticed..

the little 1 inch square with the links on the far left is not one of those "reach out and grab'ya" things though..

maybe, i should rest before i look next time.

sighs

can't rate: Displacement Surfaces 2:

error message states a previous reply :sad:

question: is the flood control borking it possibly??

I added a CSS map to my profile earlier and it doesn't show up on the front page :sad:

sighs Only maps with screenshots or a download link appear on the front page.

I wish everybody added screenshots to their maps. It makes so much of a difference. :sad:

Oh, here's a nice idea for the site - adding a special awards page for maps and prefabs (i.e - most original idea, best aesthetics, greatest gameplay, most useful fab).

I think it might be good to make a resources section of the site, up at
the top bar with maps, editing, etc... At the moment, things like
models, prefabs, textures and the like are quite hidden away, and it
could be nice to make them more prominent with HL2 arriving soon.

I was looking through the tutorials section, and it struck me that quite a few of the old HL1 tutorials may still be valid for HL2 once it comes out. Is it worth classifying some of them under both categories? I suppose someone could look through and test them to see if they are still valid, and then add them to both categories. Might well save people a lot of effort in rewriting them.

Optionally, changes in the updates which are unique to HL2 can be marked separately within the tutorial itself.

None of them are perfectly valid (bar the "general" sound making etc. tutorials, which I will make viewable for all games soon).

I will also consider some kind of "user-voted" award system, which runs every now and then...

I just had a thought, when searching the editing forums think about adding a "Show Answered Threads Only" option. It would just show threads that have been answered or closed, locked, whatever with the topic keyword.

I suppose you could toss that with my enitre other post about the editing board a couple weeks back.

Random editing tips not showing :sad:

There aren't any yet for HL2.

Most of the tips will work for HL2 though won't they? Maybe someone could try them out and put them up if they work.

sent in a review, but it doesn't show up on my control panel ?

It would do now, but I just added it :razz:

sent in a review, but it doesn't show up on my control panel ?

Good review, although you could have elaborated on it a little more.
Some thumbnails would be nice to have on that page too, even if they
were the same ones from the maps profile.

Just for fun (you can flame me all you want if you dont like it) how about a timer until HL2 is released. Set to UK's time of coarse. :biggrin: No one else has done it yet.

yes, i just got in and... am sleepy once more..

so, where or how do i access the new reviews?

be gentle with me, after the CD joke, i am a bit raw..

Users: Leperous (3076 profile hits), Orpheus (2917 profile hits), ReNo (2739 profile hits)
Maps: Melee Town 3D by jokipoki (1849 downloads), Apotheosis (gmdm2) by Gollum (1729 downloads), Big Scientists by wil5on (1192 downloads)
Topic:</B> SPLA Map (1059 replies)
Poll:</B> Contest Rules (77 votes)
Tutorial:</B> Displacement Surfaces 1: The Basics by ReNo (4594 views)

in 4 days :eek:

no insult to duncan, but thats rediculous.. gotta be a bug.

Orpheus said:
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Take a closer look, or i'll be forced to embarrass you with mspaint and a big red circle. :wink:

i saw 1, but thats not important now.. what is is this..

? quote:The review should ideally be over 200 words long and describe both the physical design of the map and the gameplay. Please spell correctly, use correct grammar and write a decent review or your it might not be accepted!

/me laughed at the typo, not that it exists, but that its specifically stated to NOT have one

That and it's missing a comma or two depending on how you want it to sound.

yes, i just got in and... am sleepy once more..

so, where or how do i access the new reviews?

be gentle with me, after the CD joke, i am a bit raw..

Reviews are under 'features' in the menu just under the snarkpit logo.

Alien_Sniper said:
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yes, i just got in and... am sleepy once more..

so, where or how do i access the new reviews?

be gentle with me, after the CD joke, i am a bit raw..

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Reviews are under 'features' in the menu just under the snarkpit logo.

those are old.. do we not have new ones as well?

Take a closer look, or i'll be forced to embarrass you with mspaint and a big red circle. :wink:

Alien_Sniper said:
Take a closer look, or i'll be forced to embarrass you with mspaint and a big red circle. :wink:

i saw 1, but thats not important now.. what is is this..

The review should ideally be over 200 words long and describe both the physical design of the map and the gameplay. Please spell correctly, use correct grammar and write a decent review or [color=yellow]your it might not be accepted[/color]!

/me laughed at the typo, not that it exists, but that its specifically stated to NOT have one

I know that Lep has just gotten the whole review system set up, so I'm going to make a big issue out of this -- but, er, it appears that the "pros and cons" of my Zero review have been switched with the gameplay and design. O_o

Also, when I went to edit it, everything was blank -- if I press the submit button, will that "Clear" my review? :O

If you submit something, and IT is not considered good enough to be classed as a review, then IT may not be accepted. And if IT is not considered to be a review, what then, is IT? I can't tell you, because I'm making this up as I go along, but whatever IT is, IT is your IT.

Now the typo is gone. :smile:

fishy said:
If you submit something, and IT is not considered good enough to be classed as a review, then IT may not be accepted. And if IT is not considered to be a review, what then, is IT? I can't tell you, because I'm making this up as I go along, but whatever IT is, IT is your IT.

Now the typo is gone. :smile:

DAMN IT!

/runs

still having this problem..

http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&game=HL2&id=113

will not allow me to rate, claims i already have..

Does it work now?

I thought I fixed this bug ages ago

Leperous said:
Does it work now?

I thought I fixed this bug ages ago

sadly, no.. says i already did. :sad:

[edit]

same with fishy's tut.. says i already rated it as well ..

Question/Suggestion:

With the user review system in place, is a PM generated to inform the maps author of a new review, as with the comment portion?

IE, i rate reno, he gets a message stating i did so, if i reviewed him, would a similar message be generated?

if not, can we please have it so?

Question: How do we access user created reviews only??

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Suggestion: can we have "reviews written" to this chart?

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Suggestion#2: can we have "new reviews" added to this area??

Thanks Lep :biggrin:

I like Orph's ideas, and I've got another thing too:

A lot of people are making map profiles for unfinished stuff, but when
the map's finished, it does not re-show up on the main page under "new
maps". Maybe you could make it so that when a map's finished, it gets
shown in the list again. Would bring a bit more attention to finished
businness :smile:

look at this thread, 834 replies, prolly some HQ ideas are buried within its depths too..

is there a way to set this topic up so suggestions are distinctive, and once the idea has been implemented it is also apparent by some identifier?

i doubt its possible, but i thought it worth asking..

You could use the editing boards-system ... Green frame = accepted/fixed, Red frame = not accepted.

Forceflow said:
You could use the editing boards-system ... Green frame = accepted/fixed, Red frame = not accepted.

that system disables the option after one use.. :sad:

Not really, seems like an awful lot of hassle to edit the
options/abilities of what is actually just another thread on the board.

Leprous reads all from "new posts since your last visit" and usually
implements/responds to all the suggestions anyway. Just seems like a
dreadful waste of time for something that can be done with the human
brain :wink:

/me allows gwil his opinion, and bows out knowing differently..

I'm not responding to the idea, more to the notion of turning this thread into extra coding, Orph :smile:

The point was that this is just a normal thread and there's not much
point coding a function just for suggestions/suggestions answered :smile:

i knew what you meant, tis why i hesitate suggestions that i know in advance will cause an increase of workload..

i am code stupid, but i know its work to do..

anywho's, suggestions don't get ignored, but sometimes they are not successfully implemented either, case in point.. the error with rating tutorials, it was addressed, but failed to achieve its goal, at least for me and reno.. i never accused lep of failing to listen, i just hate bothering him repeatedly, i would like a way to know at a glance that he did address the idea.. without the need to post another time..

/2cents

I see.. Hmm.

In which case I have no good suggestion :razz:

Gwil said:
I see.. Hmm.

In which case I have no good suggestion :razz:

i know, that it appears sometimes that we disagree, but thats only on the surface.

i would never accuse lep of not being attentive to our suggestions, far be it. look around you, a lions share of the pit is my suggestions, with that said, i am not taking credit for a single one of them either. from my perspective it appears that way, but i know better, for instance: the black background, i may have been the 6th person to suggest it way back when, but i didn't know that, i just saw one day it was black, it had to have been a good idea as it was used. many, if not all of the suggestions currently in use were mine, but since i do not know the order in which lep received them, it would be massively arrogant of me to even entertain the idea that i was responsible for the site.

but, since i so dearly love the layout, in its current config. i am content, even if all of my suggestions were late or worse lost.

when i suggest something, i assume its brand new and work from there as i would not suggest it, knowing its up for review/acceptance.

anywho's, i did not intend indifference to your perceived views of leps memory :smile:

/me drops subject.

I could just edit people's posts with a little "implemented" tag... but I can't be bothered, I do work on pretty much everything you throw at me (though some might take longer than others to fix)

Leperous said:
I could just edit people's posts with a little "implemented" tag... but I can't be bothered, I do work on pretty much everything you throw at me (though some might take longer than others to fix)

you do just fine, i won't complain till you do about repetative ideas being posted..

/me shuts up now

In campaignjunkie's profile it says he has written two tutorials, but
if you click that link so as to view his tutorials, only one is
displayed (how to cel-shade brushes).

I seem to be able to see both... His other tut is about textures, so have you disabled texture tutorials or enabled only editing tuts or somesuch?

Edit: Seems like you've enabled only HL2 tuts. See the difference:

1) http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&byuser=16&game=HL2&editor=hammer

2) http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&byuser=16

(1) shows only celshading. (2) shows both.

Ooh I know why this is happening, it's because he has a tutorial for a section that only exists for HL, but if you have your default game set to HL2 it won't "load" that section. I'll fiddle with some code and fix it.

I see you've added Zombie Panic, but there's no icon. So here's one.



Needs resizing though D:

Thanks :smile: