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)


 * Also, it's not a rule or NEthing, but it's my convention and i think it makes conversations easier to read and refer to in code or raw (or edit of course) views, is to add a linebreak between peoples' replies - like I just added. Anyway - the pagetitle thing works inside templates - when you're vierwing the template, well the pagetitle where you are looking is (obviously) the name of the template. But if you've added the template to another page, the pagetitlee attribute automatically uses that pages' title instead! And just so you know I didn't typo it, it *is* two E's - it's a thing about titles; for the page named Magic missile,   would output Magic missile; while    would output Magic_missile - it's an important distinction, because URLs and links and such can break, especially in templates and images, and ESPECIALLY with both (external links worst of all, but they don't apply here) and it's best to go with the safest alternative.  Elliott Cable  -  ?+¿  -  ‹·›
 * One other note, is that the IMGwiki (where I think you accidentally uploaded two monster images) is a shared image repository for all the sites in the network, and is more for interface images and icons and such; things like monster and spell images don't need to be there as much, because no other wiki will need to use them. So try to upload them locally instead (-: Elliott Cable  -  ?+¿  -  ‹·›  14:29, June 9, 2006 (EDT)
 * About cropping the image; if you're willing to hack your game around a bit, see if you can find the place where the orb's image itself resides (the golden border around the monster) - if you can delete that file, or temporarily rename it while taking pics, it might just dissappear in-game so all you get is a clean circle; then we can worry about cropping it down to that later. I may be able to develop an image-mask template in photoshop, but i don't have quite the time to go through and crop all the images down to just the circle as a transparent PNG )-: Elliott Cable  -  ?+¿  -  ‹·›  14:29, June 9, 2006 (EDT)`