[Dev Thread] Enhanced Thief Fan Missions Archive (Last update: 2017/12/24)

EnYB0La on 13/12/2017 at 16:18

Quote Posted by fortuni

The link works.

Are you using windows to connect to the Lady Jo site, as for some reason that link does not work when I use my IPad, but does when I use my laptop.

This is what I see actually...

(https://image.ibb.co/iN1ovR/Thief_et_ses_Fans_Missions_Firefox_Developer_Edition.jpg)

Inline Image:

https://preview.ibb.co/b2CvaR/Thief_et_ses_Fans_Missions_Firefox_Developer_Edition.jpg

But yeah, I'm pretty sure I understood what u meant by saying "a continual montage of loaded screenies": something like a screenshots slider ((https://www.jssor.com/demos/image-slider.slider))?

fortuni on 13/12/2017 at 17:07

Don't know why the link does not work for you :confused:

But yes, a type of screenshot slider.

You maybe able to access what Athalle has done by going to the main page and following the links to the individual missions at the top left of the screen. But she hasn't done it for all the missions yet, just the earlier releases I believe. (http://ladyjo1.free.fr/thief/)

EnYB0La on 14/12/2017 at 03:59

2017/12/14

Considered some changes as suggested.

1. A Fan Mission Single Page Template for a specific campaign's FM:

(https://image.ibb.co/mGR9kR/1.png)

Inline Image:

https://preview.ibb.co/dYTN5R/1.png

2. A Fan Mission Single Page Template for a specific FM:

(https://image.ibb.co/fgNRX6/2.png)

Inline Image:

https://preview.ibb.co/bTTN5R/2.png

So, as you can see, I relocated the screenshots into a new sidebar section. When a video from YT isn't available (no ID specified), then the screenshots take his location in the template.

Also, an important message is displayed when a Fan Mission is part of a campaign.

gamophyte on 14/12/2017 at 06:49

Sliiiick and nice!

fortuni on 14/12/2017 at 07:09

This looks really good Enybola, professional, easy on the eye and attractive.

When do you expect to launch this archive?

I also note that you are French and in the above examples have entered all typing in French, will you continue doing that and rely on google to automatically translate the mission details (which sometimes can produce total garbage) or when you launch, will you use English.

skacky on 14/12/2017 at 08:01

That's not French, that's Latin. Lorem ipsum is a basic, widely used text fill to test stuff.

EnYB0La on 14/12/2017 at 12:45

Quote Posted by fortuni

Hey buddy,

Yeah, that's not French but Latin as skacky said :)

This is Lorem Ipsum, a filler text or greeking commonly used to demonstrate the textual elements of a graphic document or visual presentation ((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum) Wikipedia).

I just used this alternative text because I needed to fill generic content in a template. The Fan Missions and our community mainly use English. So, ETFMA will be in English.

I expect to launch a public Beta the next February. Also, the idea is to test the website with a minimum of content and then invite the community to create each of the Fan Mission Markdown files. I'd like to know if FenPhoenix will work on a possible scanner script... :D

fortuni on 14/12/2017 at 16:38

Quote Posted by EnYB0La

Yeah, that's not French but Latin as skacky said :)

I thought it looked a bit strange, but I don't speak French and assumed it was French as that is where your from.

Quote Posted by EnYB0La

I expect to launch a public Beta the next February. Also, the idea is to test the website with a minimum of content and then invite the community to create each of the Fan Mission Markdown files.

Sounds good to me, and where I can help out I certainly will. :D

ps. I think the 'pick a fan mission' at random is a great idea, it may help promote a number of the less well known missions.

FenPhoenix on 15/12/2017 at 01:57

Quote Posted by EnYB0La

I expect to launch a public Beta the next February. Also, the idea is to test the website with a minimum of content and then invite the community to create each of the Fan Mission Markdown files. I'd like to know if FenPhoenix will work on a possible scanner script... :D

Started work today. Getting the basics set up took a while. Maybe I should have something to eat. In celebration. Anyway, everything is quick-n-dirty right now and it doesn't pull much data at the moment, but here's the git repo. I'll be updating this regularly.

(https://github.com/FenPhoenix/FMInfoGen)

Edit:
For clarification on some things:
I notice the "Books and scrolls", is that to note that a mission has readables? I'm not sure I've ever seen one that didn't. Also, does "Background music" mean actual music only, or any custom ambience, or? And what's "Goal description"?

Dale_ on 15/12/2017 at 07:56

Quote Posted by FenPhoenix

Edit:
For clarification on some things:
I notice the "Books and scrolls", is that to note that a mission has readables? I'm not sure I've ever seen one that didn't.

Maybe the system could instead just scan the books folder (English, if it exists) of each FM and get a word count of all the *.str files minus Page_0:; Page_1; etc... Then if it's a campaign, divide the word count by number of missions to get an average word count per mission. Would be interesting to see which FMs have the most text. It might not be super accurate as there are also custom object names in there and some FMs have baked text in images but it would still give a nice rough idea.