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Posted by: AceoStar Sep 21 2008, 11:55 PM

So we're gonna be releasing signatures sometime soonish. I don't plan to get very complex with it (eg no configurations) but let me know the types of things you would like the default view to show.

We'll obviously hide values that arnt shown. So if you dont show stats you won't get a big 0/0 on your sig smile.gif


Oh, and if you didn't know, these sigs will be dynamicly generated. So the content will always be up to date, this isnt an image you download.

Posted by: Berig Sep 21 2008, 11:57 PM

We don't really know what this could be, depending on how skilled we get with image magic, or whatever program we're using. Rabble rabble rabble, AceoStar is making me post here to see two of them in the same page. tongue.gif

Posted by: Foxfire Sep 22 2008, 12:02 AM

Oh looks, I has one too! laugh.gif

Posted by: Rokugo Sep 22 2008, 09:29 AM

Wow, that took me an embarassingly long time to figure out.

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 22 2008, 09:31 AM

yeah, the case sensitivity is an issue I gotta fix, fixed, Im sure thats what got you stumped hehe

Posted by: Rokugo Sep 22 2008, 09:40 AM

Naw, nothing so subtle, just me being foolish. I kept trying to add the dynamic page image, then tried html tags in desperation, then finally realized that it was pretty simple to figure out tongue.gif

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 22 2008, 01:21 PM

you people used to beg me for these, no comments? :/

Posted by: Dritz Sep 22 2008, 01:43 PM

Someone around here a couple of years ago made one of these and it took the form of the old pre-6.x status stuff in the bottom right of Nexus. Perhaps have something like that.

Posted by: Rokugo Sep 22 2008, 01:44 PM

If you build it, they will come. </fieldofdreams>

I think stataddict still needs to rebuild its user base. After being down for so long, I imagine its popularity even though it's reopened has taken a hit. What do your unique visitor stats look like compared to what the old stataddict used to do?

How is the stat tracking going? I always loved that, and the top daily hunters feature (assuming the userpages are updating daily now). I think it was the user interactivity features that really attracted me to SA.

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 22 2008, 02:17 PM

Currently we have 271 people with stataddict in thier profile. At our greatest point in the past, we had about 650. Numbers are way off from what they were then, but you are right, we definately have to re-raise our number base.

As of the 18th, we have had 350 unique visitors and 4,000 hits. Considering the average players online, I think we're doing pretty good, but we need to keep them coming back. Tracking is the number 1 thing that will do that. At its height, SA was getting more hits than NexusAtlas (back then I had access to their logs too tongue.gif) but I think with the increased activity on nexus forums these days it'll be hard to hit that again.

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 22 2008, 03:37 PM

As a side note, I love seeing the Yuri born on these signatures. Its nice to see how old some of the characters are that belong to the posters.

Posted by: WestSideR Sep 22 2008, 04:09 PM

Photoshop PS3 ownz? Peep my sig.

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 22 2008, 04:10 PM

Heheh.... youngen...

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 22 2008, 04:41 PM

^
yeah yeah

Should I keep 2 columns or do 3?

I think I could fit a lot more info in 3, but I dunno if you guys would rather have it less wide or not.

Posted by: Berig Sep 22 2008, 04:54 PM

Maybe if we get some icons in there it might clear it up a little bit, and make it look less like a TPS report </officespace>.

I don't think it would hurt having another column with the average size browser, and even for a signature an extra 50 pixles or so isn't that much.

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 22 2008, 04:54 PM

Take a look at my one for Proto... The word alignments need to be adjusted a little (maybe make the image a little wider to compensate).
What's the plan for the whitespace under the infor? Stats?


I really wish KRU would fix the images... the one used on the Baram site is so much better...

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 22 2008, 10:43 PM

^Fixed the alignment. The space under the basic info will house carnage records and stats. smile.gif

Posted by: Vortextk Sep 22 2008, 10:53 PM

QUOTE(Berig @ Sep 22 2008, 05:54 PM) [snapback]61854[/snapback]

make it look less like a TPS report </officespace>.


Berig, what's happening? Yeah...about your stataddict reports, see, we're adding cover pages to them all now so if you could just do that from now on, that'd be great. I'll see about getting you that memo.

Posted by: Foxfire Sep 22 2008, 11:14 PM

-growls- ACEOSTAR! You left off FOXHUNTS.

-gives him the Look-

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 22 2008, 11:29 PM

lies wink.gif

Just kinda dumping data in at this point, let me know if I should switch the order up a bit

Posted by: Grand Cross Sep 23 2008, 04:51 AM

I like the sigs D:

Switch the Born date to the first one in the column?

"Born" "Nation" "Clan" (seems right to have it the first thing I think)

Maybe switch the title like that too

"Title" "Legend mark" "MQ"

When you start including the crafting info you could have a category for that too. Maybe.

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 23 2008, 09:39 AM

Also, not sure if it's possible to distinguish level 50 from 99...
Perhaps a simple if statement inside the level 50 distinguishing code basically saying that if stats are above X/X display Level 99

rather than if PathName==Level50PathTitle Level is 50//elseif PathName==IlSanPathTitle Level is Il San... etc..

Also perhaps something like this for path/sp/mark:

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Posted by: Berig Sep 23 2008, 10:29 AM

I have been working on an icon set based off of some of the statistic icons in 5.6 and some of the legend mark icons, once we get some of those on there we'll probably ask for more suggestions.

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 23 2008, 01:25 PM

QUOTE(Grand Cross @ Sep 23 2008, 05:51 AM) [snapback]61904[/snapback]

I like the sigs D:

Switch the Born date to the first one in the column?

"Born" "Nation" "Clan" (seems right to have it the first thing I think)

Maybe switch the title like that too

When you start including the crafting info you could have a category for that too. Maybe.

Done. I left title where it is since it can be so long :/

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Perhaps a simple if statement inside the level 50 distinguishing code basically saying that if stats are above X/X display Level 99

rather than if PathName==Level50PathTitle Level is 50//elseif PathName==IlSanPathTitle Level is Il San... etc..

Also perhaps something like this for path/sp/mark:

Good call, I'll try and get that fixed here soon. Using this image to test tongue.gif


IPB Image

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 23 2008, 02:31 PM

QUOTE(AceoStar @ Sep 23 2008, 01:25 PM) [snapback]62002[/snapback]

Good call, I'll try and get that fixed here soon. Using this image to test tongue.gif


Might also want to do that on the actual main SA too.

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 23 2008, 04:02 PM

kk smile.gif

testing a high mq count

IPB Image

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 23 2008, 05:42 PM

QUOTE(AceoStar @ Sep 23 2008, 04:02 PM) [snapback]62047[/snapback]

IPB Image


Ooh new issue! "Born before the great shift"... might want to make that just say.. "OLD"....

Posted by: Grand Cross Sep 23 2008, 05:46 PM

Uh oh sad.gif Forgot about Great Shifters.

Instead of having it say "Before the Great Shift", just have it say "Great Shift"?

Yeah the Minor Quests is a bit crunched there. "M. Quests" instead maybe? Then again it still fits, and I doubt anyone would ever have 5 digits for minor quests.

If you put "Chung Ryong" for the Subpath, it'd overlap. But if you change the subpaths to images that'd take care of that.

I think everything would fit then.

Posted by: SilentS Sep 23 2008, 08:07 PM

QUOTE(HaKSaW @ Sep 23 2008, 04:42 PM) [snapback]62079[/snapback]

Ooh new issue! "Born before the great shift"... might want to make that just say.. "OLD"....
Pft.. Bite me tongue.gif I am not the only one who is still around.

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 24 2008, 12:10 AM

Might want to rethink the "Hits" field. Apollosworld is sitting at his computer constantly refreshing the page to stay at the top of the list. I did some myself to test, which is how I discovered what Apollosworld is doing.

Posted by: Yamiko Sep 24 2008, 08:34 AM

So, how do I go about getting a signature? sad.gif

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 24 2008, 09:24 AM

IPB Image

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[img]http://stataddict.com/sig/Yamiko.png[/img]
And for an even better effect:
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[url=http://www.stataddict.com/player.php?name=Yamiko][img]http://stataddict.com/sig/Yamiko.png[/img][/url]


Aceo, sorry if you didn't want that out there yet.

Posted by: Sarphendon Sep 24 2008, 10:43 AM

also check out the long subpath overlap.

http://www.stataddict.com/player.php?name=Sarphendon

Posted by: Yamiko Sep 24 2008, 10:44 AM

Thank you! And er, yes...sorry if I was not supposed to know this yet. I was just curious, since a lot people I've seen on the forums have it. I just sort of assumed it was something I could get, but didn't know how...


((Edit: Wow, Sarph- I thought you were a Do O_O))

Posted by: SilentS Sep 24 2008, 12:41 PM

As funny as it was to hear people complain about the user pages not updating... Now that they are, SA isn't updating. Anybody else notice that on their SA page? I am 2 days behind now at least.

Posted by: Gilmore Sep 24 2008, 05:19 PM

Nice guys, keep up the good work wink.gif

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 24 2008, 06:55 PM

QUOTE(HaKSaW @ Sep 24 2008, 01:10 AM) [snapback]62123[/snapback]

Might want to rethink the "Hits" field. Apollosworld is sitting at his computer constantly refreshing the page to stay at the top of the list. I did some myself to test, which is how I discovered what Apollosworld is doing.


Yeah, I was just waiting to see who would be the first to try that. I have a method to prevent it for the most part that I used on the old site that I'll put in here soon.

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As funny as it was to hear people complain about the user pages not updating... Now that they are, SA isn't updating. Anybody else notice that on their SA page? I am 2 days behind now at least.


Yeah yeah. Having an issue with it timing out sometimes when running from the cron. I did a manual update tonight and it should be up to date.


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Thank you! And er, yes...sorry if I was not supposed to know this yet. I was just curious, since a lot people I've seen on the forums have it. I just sort of assumed it was something I could get, but didn't know how...


That's cool. We figured people would start adding them as they saw it going around. Theres now code on your userpage to link to your signature. Thanks for helping out and posting the code HaKSaW

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Formatting!


Heres what I just did to try and fix the formatting a bit. I dont want them to get a whole lot wider than they already are, so I'm going to keep some of the longer ones on the right. Like born and subpath


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Instead of having it say "Before the Great Shift", just have it say "Great Shift"?


Done

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 24 2008, 08:07 PM

BTW, Aceo.. the level is actually farmable from the Userpages. Should help with those issues on like.. the level 50 display thing (I know it won't show for people who do not show stats but you could easily cross check between people above and below that do show stats to determine level for the SADB).

One suggestion I would make for the "Hits" thing is basically a session cookie (session_start() in php) with a global variable that is checked for by the users player.php file. Basically when you load a page, it'll put a global variable into the cookie stating that the last person you looked at is $playername then if you refresh that page and $playername == $storedplayername then it does not count to the Hits.

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 24 2008, 09:53 PM

help me test this right quick if you dont mind, try to boost your hits

bleh 1 sec

okay should be good to go

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 24 2008, 10:11 PM

QUOTE
BTW, Aceo.. the level is actually farmable from the Userpages. Should help with those issues on like.. the level 50 display thing (I know it won't show for people who do not show stats but you could easily cross check between people above and below that do show stats to determine level for the SADB).


Yeah, I already had it stored, I just wasn't using it here smile.gif Fixed that for the sigs.

http://www.stataddict.com/player.php?name=Ralphey

Posted by: Yamiko Sep 24 2008, 11:29 PM

I kinda liked having Born: be on the first left. Kind of like the first thing you see, you know, almost like how it's your first legend mark (In most cases.) But I guess I understand. Exactly how many people are born before the Great Shift though? O_O

Also, I thought Subpath might go nicely right under Class, since it's a specific category of the Class.

But hey. It doesn't really matter. The signatures are really nifty, and great to have. And self-updating too?

Thanks!

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 24 2008, 11:49 PM

I moved born back, I liked it there as well. And yes, is self updating smile.gif

As an FYI, in the future, we will only be serving sigs for StatAddicts (those who have www.StatAddict.com in thier nexus profile) so go ahead and add it on all your chars smile.gif

The previous issue w/ counting too many "Hits" seems to be resolved. Obviously ways around it can be found, but this should work for now.

Posted by: Yamiko Sep 25 2008, 12:02 AM

QUOTE(AceoStar @ Sep 25 2008, 12:49 AM) [snapback]62302[/snapback]
I moved born back, I liked it there as well. And yes, is self updating smile.gif

As an FYI, in the future, we will only be serving sigs for StatAddicts (those who have www.StatAddict.com in thier nexus profile) so go ahead and add it on all your chars smile.gif


B-but... *gasp* That would require me actually putting something in my profile!

*grin* j/k.

It shall be done! Just as soon as I can get on Nexus again... wink.gif

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 25 2008, 12:41 AM

Yeah... my reg has expired unfortunately.
Going to be a couple weeks before I can get back regged...

The layout is nice. Question on the "Mark":
Wouldn't it make more sense for pre-Il san to show "None", then Il showing "1st Mark" or the icon that is now at the bottom under the name?
Or perhaps combine Class/Mark/Subpath to something like:

Warrior (Barbarian)
Warrior (Berserker - Il san graphic)
Warrior (Savage - Ee san graphic)
Warrior (Beast - Sam san graphic)

but you would keep the Subpath section so that there is no confusion for anyone not familiar with the path titles.

Just a suggestion.

Also noting that when someone is not in a clan, you get a " Rank:". perhaps adding a condition to the if statement to pickup those who are not in a clan and put maybe "Clanless" or something to that effect, or perhaps even not show that part for unclanned users.

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 25 2008, 09:03 AM

QUOTE

Yeah... my reg has expired unfortunately.
Going to be a couple weeks before I can get back regged...


The layout is nice. Question on the "Mark":
Wouldn't it make more sense for pre-Il san to show "None", then Il showing "1st Mark" or the icon that is now at the bottom under the name?
Or perhaps combine Class/Mark/Subpath to something like:

Warrior (Barbarian)
Warrior (Berserker - Il san graphic)
Warrior (Savage - Ee san graphic)
Warrior (Beast - Sam san graphic)

but you would keep the Subpath section so that there is no confusion for anyone not familiar with the path titles.




If I do this before you rereg, I'll hard code you in as an addict for all your help tongue.gif

I started to put the path images in last night, but I didnt have the 4 npc path icons, so I had to wait. Anyone have a copy of those?

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 25 2008, 12:34 PM

cleaned up the il and ee san icons, nexon barely tried to make those look right tongue.gif

I still need a HyunMoo icon if someone has it

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 25 2008, 12:47 PM

if I wasn't stuck at work today, I'd get you the icons (photoshop them from screenshots).

I appreciate that you'll hard code me in smile.gif I am a bit of a junkie when it comes to stuff like this.

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 25 2008, 07:38 PM

berig made me the missing piece and now the subpath image has been added to the sig. If anyone wants to clean some of these up just send em to me as a 12x12 transparent gif. If you want to redo the whole set then you can do them as png /shrug

Posted by: Rokugo Sep 25 2008, 07:46 PM

Looks like unsubpathed people's sigs are broke now, such as Rokugo's.

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 25 2008, 07:49 PM

QUOTE(Rokugo @ Sep 25 2008, 08:46 PM) [snapback]62531[/snapback]

Looks like unsubpathed people's sigs are broke now, such as Rokugo's.



fixed. 3 minute response time, woot tongue.gif

Posted by: Rokugo Sep 25 2008, 07:52 PM

Please apply to KRU's support team.

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 25 2008, 07:59 PM

hehe.

btw haksaw, I fixed the noclan issue you mentioned, you just cant tell on your sigs cause the data is old.

http://www.stataddict.com/player.php?name=Valandil

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 25 2008, 08:04 PM

Not quite what I meant with the graphic.

I kinda meant having the "Class" take both columns that are currently for Class and Mark and kinda combine those two into one.

Class: Warrior (Berserker <Subpath Mark + Il san graphic>) Subpath: Barbarian


Ultimately it's up to you, but I think that'd break it up a bit in the text and make things a little less... report-esque.

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 25 2008, 11:07 PM

ahhh, I see. Yeah, its a pain in the ass to put images over there with the way I set up the class for it. I'll probably just keep them below the userpage. I guess I'll put crafting images in there too.

Now the next thing I need as far as formatting is a bit trickier. I want to re-organize the rows so that I can hide the entire thing based on certain criteria. For example, if you don't show your legend, theres no point in displaying all the events, the mq count, and legend count.

fixed yuri and hyuls too. Just to be sure yuri 84 = hyul 1, right?

Posted by: SilentS Sep 25 2008, 11:15 PM

No, Yuri 83 = Hyul 1

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 25 2008, 11:20 PM

thanks, fixed after update

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 26 2008, 10:57 AM

QUOTE(AceoStar @ Sep 25 2008, 11:07 PM) [snapback]62590[/snapback]

Now the next thing I need as far as formatting is a bit trickier. I want to re-organize the rows so that I can hide the entire thing based on certain criteria. For example, if you don't show your legend, theres no point in displaying all the events, the mq count, and legend count.


My suggestion would be to make each field it's own layer in the dynamic image. I know it means a few more lines of code, but it would allow you to put a condition statement in place to direct whether or not these are put in. It would also allow direct control over things like positioning, you can also then put graphics in the area that the text currently resides.

To decide upon alignments I would suggest using a grid on photoshop and kinda.. align everything using it, then you can pull the coordinates for the specific elements from there for aligning into the dynamic image.

Posted by: Foxfire Sep 26 2008, 11:31 AM

Man, Aceo, now I'll really look like a young'n after you changed the born dates to Hyuls.. tongue.gif

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 26 2008, 11:59 AM

That's because you ARE a young'n tongue.gif

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 26 2008, 03:28 PM

I know the number is inherinetly flawed due to the way its called and the forum views etc etc, but woot 50k serves in 5 days tongue.gif


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My suggestion would be to make each field it's own layer in the dynamic image. I know it means a few more lines of code, but it would allow you to put a condition statement in place to direct whether or not these are put in. It would also allow direct control over things like positioning, you can also then put graphics in the area that the text currently resides.


Yeah. Right now I did a class to do pretty much the same thing, except that each data/callout pair is its own layer. I can get the images in there with enough effort, but I think Im gonna leave them out for now. Once I get some of the more important stuff fixed (like trackign) I'll revisit smile.gif

Posted by: HaKSaW Sep 26 2008, 03:32 PM

At least it's that number of them viewed, which is fine. It's awesome either way.

Posted by: AllyGator Sep 27 2008, 01:40 PM

so awesome! good work, so fast now and no hideous banners! smile.gif

Posted by: AceoStar Sep 27 2008, 03:32 PM

haha, I loved those banners, but they were a bit too large tongue.gif

Posted by: AceoStar Nov 22 2008, 08:53 PM

Added total XP on the sigs, dunno why i didnt think to add it before

Posted by: AceoStar Nov 22 2008, 09:08 PM

Those of you who don't use the sigs, would you use one if I made a smaller version with just name, birth clan/subpath and stats?

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