Talk:Monsters

Some cleaning up that needs to be done
Ok, now that I fixed this list, I've got some errors I've noticed that need to be rectified...
 * The various categories for alignment - chaotic, evil, good - need to be cleaned up and sub-sbu-categorized into such as Category:Chaotic Evil monsters and Category:Lawful Good monsters.
 * Category:Elf race monsters is broken - should be only under Category:Elf monsters, not Category:Monsters too.
 * Items in Category:Elf race monsters don't need to ALSO be in Category:Elf monsters, because Category:Elf race monsters itself is a sub-category.
 * Can do. Can go over all monsters that have both a type and race. Robin 16:38, June 6, 2006 (EDT)
 * You  'd this out - did you get it done? Awesome, if so! Elliott Cable  -  ?+¿  -  ‹·›  18:50, June 7, 2006 (EDT)
 * I've just tweaked Warforged but yeah, all done! All monsters in both a main cat and sub cat were updated to the sub cat only. Giants, goblinoids, reptilians and undead were changed. Outsiders were fine as they were i think. &laquo; robin  &raquo; Talk 08:00, June 8, 2006 (EDT)
 * K, thanks - wow your on a roll (-: Elliott Cable  -  ?+¿  -  ‹·›  11:56, June 8, 2006 (EDT)


 * Category:Evil monsters and Category:Evil outsider monsters
 * Evil Outsider is a type, just like Elf or Giant. Evil Monsters are any creature with an evil alignment. Sonil 21:33, June 5, 2006 (EDT)
 * Hmmkay, my bad, forget that one.

I might dig out a few more errors in a bit, but the categorization is looking good otherwise! Elliott Cable -  ?+¿  -  ‹·›  19:52, June 5, 2006 (EDT)
 * Category:Giant race monsters needs to be sub-categorized into Category:Giant monsters, just like Category:Elf race monsters has been.
 * Category:Kobold monsters shouldn't be under Category:Monsters itself, it's a sub-category again
 * Same for Category:Troglodyte monsters
 * Same for Category:Zombie monsters

Monster focus orb pictures
I'm going all-out by getting a picture of each monster. For standardisation i'm taking a screen shot of the monster when targetted so it's headshot appears in the focus orb. I'm then gonna crop it and save as a 256-colour PNG file (alternatively JPEG). What name do you want? I'm thinking Mon- at the start, and then the monster name all lowercase.


 * Hmm. Is there any way to get rid of the controls and stuff around that focus-thingamabobber?What i'm thinking is that it must store those focus orb pics somewhere on the drive - perhaps we can hack them out and mass-upload them. And either way, I'd say just  [[Image:Monster's name, same as it's page title.png]]  - good for consistency, and then we can just use  [[Image:.png]]  in the template! Simple, no? Elliott Cable  -  ?+¿  -  ‹·›  13:47, June 8, 2006 (EDT)
 * I dig the title-based images. The orb shots of monsters are not static images; in-game they animate. I'll look into ways of cropping the image.
 * I was hoping to position and frame the picture in a template but the pagetitle thing doesn't work because it uses the template's pagetitle and not the monsters. I won't do too much work on this but i've set up Inevitable and Gnashtooth Bloodletter as a test. &laquo; robin &raquo; talk 12:19, June 9, 2006 (EDT)