• Peter: New Guild Website Features - Gallery

    Characters: Rittal[85] Mieville[80] Terlan[80] Caltera[67] Dynia[67]
    Created: 2008-08-31 14:48:16

    Woooow... hold your horses there.

    There are some limitations, don't go uploading PNG's just yet. I need to make something that will convert a PNG to a JPG automatically, they are too big for web usage.

    You can't tag photos yet, it's coming. All the editing and naming stuff works. There's no integration with the forums, I'll do that very soon.

    Otherwise... try it, see what happens.

    P.
    "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." -- Douglas Adams

    • Chris: Re: New Guild Website Features - Gallery

      Characters: Allynne[85] Phelia[85] Massus[81] Akkyyr[74] Aerryn[46]
      Created: 2008-08-31 15:03:50

      As an aside, for anyone with a Mac, is there a way to set the screenshot function to save as a jpeg instead of a PNG? At the moment I have to change the file type in photoshop before I can use them on the web.

      • Sara: Re: Re: New Guild Website Features - Gallery

        Characters: Tesandra[85] Sevelyn[82] Elveria[81] Valediren[80] Eláviel[20]
        Created: 2008-08-31 15:21:47

        Under Mac OS, it normally takes screenshots via the OS as PNG, and there is a way to change that default though I don't know whether JPEG is an option. It's a hidden configuration, like many things in Mac OS.

        If you take a screenshot via WoW itself however, the default is JPEG - I had to change the keybinding under Mac OS as it's something silly like F13, I set it to the minus sign on the numpad. It's one of the keybindings under "Miscellaneous" I think, a long way down through the scrolly list.

        It dumps the screenshots then in the Screenshots directory inside the World of Warcraft dir.
        "And then there's aggro to worry about."
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    • Peter: Re: New Guild Website Features - Gallery

      Characters: Rittal[85] Mieville[80] Terlan[80] Caltera[67] Dynia[67]
      Created: 2008-08-31 15:18:09

      You can now... (just done it).. upload them as PNG and the website will automatically convert them to JPG. The only thing you are burning is your send bandwidth, the server will only store them on disk as jpeg.

      I basically made a change then that allows me to specify that any image format should be converted to another designated image format if received. So it's all good. Sara might know for sure.
      "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." -- Douglas Adams

    • Peter: Re: New Guild Website Features - Gallery

      Characters: Rittal[85] Mieville[80] Terlan[80] Caltera[67] Dynia[67]
      Created: 2008-08-31 16:05:59 Edited: 2008-08-31 16:06:46

      Right, now the BBCode engine supports using a [ gallery=# ] tag.

      For example without the spaces [ gallery=6 ] gives you:

      2008-08-31 15:13:58
      User Interface on 30/08/08


      Enjoy :)

      P.
      "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." -- Douglas Adams