User talk:Farlo/Archive 1

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Hello, Farlo, and welcome to the Official Guild Wars Wiki! If you need help with anything, don't hesitate to add a message to my talk page. I highly recommend that you check out the "Welcome to the wiki" page - it's extremely useful as an initial guide. Best of luck and happy editing! &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  02:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

2nd Gold Character Trim
Not saying yours is a copy, but User:Blastedt already has made this mod and it is listed further down the page.

Image:Doctor Octogonapus (Farlo).jpg
Hello, one or more of the images you have recently uploaded have not been named properly as per our image policy. This states that images that are uploaded for use in the User namespace need to be named in the following format:. For example,. Also, please enter in User image in the Summary field. Thanks. br12 • (talk) • 00:53, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

GWW:USER
Please read GWW:USER. It states you're not allowed to remove any comments on your discussion page, only archive them. &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  20:11, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Ads
Don't add stuff like this to the wiki,you're not allowed to advertise ~ Kurd  23:07, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm, why wouldn't this be allowed on a talk page? It's a nice offer and he's not seeking for any profit as far as I can tell. -- [[Image:User Gem sig.png|Gem]] (gem / talk) 13:03, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The 'ad' is a offer to help with modifying something. And the page is a Guide to modifying in-game graphics. Don't see anything wrong, but hey. --[[Image:User-brains12-sigicon5.png|Talk|14px]] br12  • (talk) • 17:28, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Gem, that's not a talk page. &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  00:43, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks Eloc. Yeah, definitely no for putting that on the article page. Nothing wrong if you'd put it in the talk page though. -- [[Image:User Gem sig.png|Gem]] (gem / talk) 06:19, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed. &mdash;  ク  Eloc  貢  16:08, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Image Update Project
Thanks for joining the Image Update Project! As you can see we (I) really don't have that much help, so any contribution would be helpful. Are you going to help with the list or with taking screenshots? Just wanna know if I should be watching the lists for updates or not.—     K  A Y C H    15:29, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know, I'll upload what I can. I've been getting less and less time to play, which sucks. ~Farlo Talk 16:11, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

hi, could you make me a Energy Sword skin (from halo 2 ). original (double-bladed axe) for texmod thnx, if you want to contact me my email = scarymovieone@hotmail.com or in game : jacky vs nika

Reply about texmod plus and minus?
Sorry, whats the keypad, im using the + and - buttons on the keyboard, what am i doing wrong? --  Yo Jm   18:20, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Fixed, i see --  Yo Jm  User_Yo_Jm_SigNew2.png‎ 18:24, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Now how do i load my captured texture on a program? --  Yo Jm  User_Yo_Jm_SigNew2.png‎ 18:40, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * After you capture the texture, it'll be in the folder you specified and the the type you picked. After you edit the texture and everything, make sure it's in the folder with the .log and go into Package Build in Texmod.  Browse for your .log and hit start. It will compile the .tpf and then ask where you want to save it. Then it works like any other mod. ~Farlo Talk 19:06, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Trivia: Lina saying "don't panic"
Has an ArenaNet employee confirmed this as an intentional reference? -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 07:10, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

High res armor
Are you still doing this? I might make a request if so. Invincible  Rogue  00:33, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not on that often anymore, but I could hop on. Basically any time on the weekends and any time in the afternoon PST ~Farlo Talk 06:51, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

texmod tpf
I am sorry, but i cannot upload them as a single TPF as I made them on seperate dates, and you cannot extract textures from a tpf file, if you want to get rid of it go ahead, but honest to god why be that stuck up over a texture mod and an external link to file front with a 49kb ZIP file with two seperate TPF's in it? There is no Trojan in it, scan it if you want to. - Chrisworld 04:14, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I was not trying to be offensive or anything, it is simply policy, and you don't have to get all defensive. If no one else cares, then keep it up, but if people get suspicious, I'm going to ask that you either remake the mod into a single tpf, or upload them separately.  Again, sorry if requesting that made you mad, I'm just enforcing a long standing policy. ~Farlo Talk 19:10, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Texmod
I can, however I did not realise people were so repugnant about it. --  Lacky 07:26, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, haha. I just have a wee bit of perfectionism over this page, lol.
 * No problems. =P -- [[Image:User_Lacky_Blue_Paw_Sig.png|15px|My Talk]] Lacky 21:11, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

File:User Farlo Divide Zero.jpg
Where did you get this image? Also, there's this image. - J.P. Talk  19:53, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Google >.< ~Farlo Talk 22:24, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

High res how?
How, as in with what software do you make them and what exactly do you do? - Y0_ ich_halt  10:09, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * If you mean the high resolution armors, I believe it's a combination of Photoshop filters from the Vivacity pack. Most likely clean, enlarge and sharpen, likely in that order.  You can't really scale up low-res images magically to make them high-res, but the Topaz filters I've used can usually do it intelligently enough to not completely suck.  It would be better to ask ANet for the original uncompressed layers to put in the texmod so that they're high-res and not shoved through the directdraw surface compression filter, but they're unlikely to release them (or even admit they have them).  –Jette 11:04, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I do use the Vivacity pack, and I would absolutely love to have the uncompressed textures that Anet does, but unless I work them, I doubt I'll ever see them :P. But yeah, Texmod cannot change the texture size, so everything must stay the same.  As to how I do it, it kind of depends on the textures.  I clean it up, change the colors, and then sharpen/retouch until it looks good enough.  There isn't a definite method I use for all the armor.  ~Farlo Talk 19:06, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Revert your changes?
I don't think I reverted anything that you did. I made a few minor changes: to move the note about using checksums to its own line (and clarifying why it's important) and to include a link to the most commonly requested DL, CME. I will refrain from any more edits until you are done, just in case. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 20:42, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I was confused as to what I was looking at, my bad. I mentioned that on the talk page in reply to the registry post.  You're quick on the edits btw :P ~Farlo Talk 20:44, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Guide
While I appreciate your effort in changes, I would rather you look and consider if it is necessary, needed, etc. You say it needs a clean up. Your clean up is adding in things that are not needed, such as extending out the fact of the mods for texmod. It's short as it is and simple enough to understand. If someone doesn't understand already that it's by the community. They must be blind or we'd had them post in the talk with questions. Most articles are rewritten to be shorter. Some get information added that's needed. Clean-up in my opinion on some articles are for either adding in needed information that's not already stated and/or obvious by the article it's self, etc. Or they are for shortening articles to not have them be so lengthly to scroll, etc. Some of your recent edits made that article bigger and longer than I felt that it ought to be. I prefer most articles to be a good length and not too much to bore me enough to not want to read. I hope you can understand why I revert. :-) 72.148.31.114 07:28, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I do see your view, and for most articles I agree. I guess I was just trying to make it seem like less of a list of steps and more of a full article.  Sadly, even before I bothered to start, I knew it was somewhat pointless.  The only people active on the wiki are already active enough in the community to know about Texmod, but I thought I'd give it a shot to try to get a page I helped form a lot featured.  Oh well, I guess I can just clean up other tidbits of it and call it a day... Oh, and for the love of God, please sign in, it bugs the hell out of me, haha.  ~Farlo Talk 09:19, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry. I'm on a new computer and I was and I am still getting use to things on this computer. It did help me fix up my userpage a little bit better. Size is a bit different than the desktop. Happy about this as I needed a new laptop. My old one had been torn up for a while and the only way to use it is by using an external mouse and keyboard... It's a bit annoying and so we bought a new one to keep from constantly repairing the old one. I will say that it seems to be worth the money for it. Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 16:15, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem, I know the feeling, I just reformatted this aging beast. That sucks that your old one was in that bad of shape.  What are the specs of the new one?  I can still manage 60 fps max graphics in Guild Wars with a Pentium D, so I'm somewhat happy. ~Farlo Talk 19:38, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Got it online at walmart.com . It's purple and it's an HP Pavilion g series for less than 500 dollars. My old one was an HP 530 that I paid about 500 for and then the additional that I needed for it (hard drive, keyboard - that's also broke) would have been over 600. One thing I like about this keyboard is the fact that my baby girl, whom is two, won't be able to try to pull off a key quite so easily (when I'm busy with clothes or dinner or dishes). Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 20:13, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Haha, I bet that could be quite annoying. Sounds like a good deal.  My laptop would explode trying to run Guild Wars >.< ~Farlo Talk 21:06, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Hehe, gotta get the deals while you can. My last laptop though powerful as it was... I had to run 3d Analyzer and then the game to get it to play in areas like Rata Sum. I couldn't run texmod in with all of that. Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 22:55, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Aww, that sucks. I love Texmod, haha.  The Glazed UI is just amazing, and some of the other mods seem so visually essential.  I'd love to see ArenaNet implement say Clear Skills or different UI styles, it'd really give the game a lot more life visually I think.  I had this insane idea, and have had it for a while, of "high-ressing" the entire game, or at least the older areas.  It's just an insane amount of textures, but if there were a ton of people, it'd be an awesome community project. ~Farlo Talk 04:41, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * On my desktop and soon on here, I am going to and I do run the gui clear skin and the cartographer. It really helps a lot and I'm thankful for texmod to help me out. ^.^ I just wouldn't know how to work er do a texmod mod. Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 16:06, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It's really simple, and that's the next part of that page I'm going to try to redo if I get around to it. Basically, you get the texture you want, photoshop it, then have Texmod make the .tpf.  ~Farlo Talk 17:42, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, nice. I usually use Gimp, which is the next thing to download on the laptop. Ty for reminding me. ^.^ Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 18:34, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Kaisha! I just realized why the  tag made everything small for you. Is it because you're using the Vector skin?  In Moonbrook, the size doesn't change, and that's why I was confused as to what you were talking about >.< ~Farlo Talk 09:50, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Image
File:User:Farlo RunMod Tutorial.jpg That going to be uploaded or updated? Red kind of doesn't help the page at the moment, in my opinion. Kaisha  19:25, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I was going to get around to that a few days ago, but I got distracted from school. I actually have some free time now, so I think I'll tackle it.  Yay Photoshop! ~Farlo Talk 19:31, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * lol, tried gimp? It imo runs less resources, is free... and seems to do a bit better. I use to use photoshop, but I love gimp now, especially when it's easier to do transparency, etc. Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 19:40, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * No, I haven't tried that. I've gotten so used to CS5, lol.  Since I have both for free, I'm probably gonna stick with what I'm used to :P  Just uploaded the image, think it's alright? ~Farlo Talk 20:14, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It's one of the recommended products. Can say that I like it pretty good. it's on the tops with photoshop. :-) Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 20:44, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Image label template
Just out of curiosity, is that template from somewhere else? just wondering about attribution. --JonTheMon 19:44, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's all from Wikipedia. I didn't see a giant "STOP" button or any copyright stuff, and I assume most of the coding they used there is open to using?  If not, my bad.  I hope I didn't mess up anything too badly :P ~Farlo Talk 19:46, 17 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Double-check the public domain agreement when copying from one wiki to another; they aren't exactly the same. (e.g. GWiki and GWW use different licensing, so you can't copy/paste from one to the other.) In particular, GWW uses GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) 1.2 while wikipedia uses Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 and Guild Wiki uses Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share Alike 2.0.


 * In practical terms, that prevents some re-use, since you have to (a) attribute with appropriate links (something we don't do in main articles), (b) don't use it for commercial purposes (no worries), and (c) use the same licensing; the last point is the bottleneck for GWW/GWiki. I think for Wikipedia template → GWW template, it should be fine as long as the template's documentation includes the source. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 20:02, 17 May 2011 (UTC)


 * All that licensing stuff is insanely stupid... but alright.  Is there a template for attributing it to Wikipedia, or should I just slap a "I copied this from " sticker in there? ~Farlo Talk 20:05, 17 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't know of a template (there might be one), but slapping a link (to the original copyright) and pointing to the source should be fine.


 * I don't find copyrights, even for public domain, at all stupid. In particular, Guild Wiki was setup specifically to avoid people profiting on knowledge sharing, while other sites only care about people getting credit for their work. That means that all three sites I mention can use some great icons/images for our user pages, but as players, we get two competing walkthroughs for each quest/mission. (I contribute to both wikis, but follow different approaches in each.)


 * It's less convenient than just grabbing stuff wherever we find it, but I think that's a minor price to pay. (Yes, I know there are tons of people on the internet who don't pay any attention, either because they are unaware of the rules or because they philosophically oppose copyright and/or intellectual property. I also know that there are people who would steal candy from a blind person.) — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 20:15, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Haha, this is very true, and you type really fast o.0  It is useful, it's just annoying when things conflict and whatnot, but I guess it is better than people stealing/profiting off open information.  Would pointing at the original template for each be enough or do I need to find who has the copyright for that template? ~Farlo Talk 20:19, 17 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Pointing is fine; you can use the link above (it's the same for anything posted on wikipedia ► you don't have to cite the original contributor; a nice feature of the licensing). Short version: the original source for this template was [link], which was contributed under [CC-by-SA 3.0]. (or something along those lines.


 * I don't think we do that enough that a template is needed, but we could have something like, e.g.  would do the same as above. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 20:24, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it'd be an easier sticker to use, but I doubt this wiki is going to change all that much in the near future to bother with it. About the actual project, how do you think it would look on the region article pages?  I'd like to have them big enough to use, but large images tend to make a page look bad unless they're used correctly.  Any ideas? ~Farlo Talk 20:29, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Copy vs move...
For next time... you can move articles from your home space to a project space. It's faster than copying/pasting (and the talk pages move automatically...unless you choose not to). Plus: saves you from remembering to delete pages and post move notices (the move puts up a redirect that can handle things until you update any lingering links).

There's nothing wrong with copying...unless you are lazy like me. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 18:08, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Haha, didn't know that, thanks very much. Are you going to be lending a hand with the project? :D ~Farlo Talk 18:10, 18 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I think will act as its loyal critic. (a) You seem to have things well in hand. (b) I know what good design looks like (and can describe it), but I suck at rendering and designing. (i.e. I'd probably do more harm than good). — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 18:26, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Haha, sounds good. Setting up the pages to get going is fine, but it's going to take a Loooonnggg time to get the actual maps made. That Ascalon one took me maybe 3 hours once I actually started working on it >.< Hopefully all my spamming the recent changes recently will stir up some support from whoever happens to still lurk here. ~Farlo Talk 18:29, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Check your spell check; it might have tPyo
Labeled, not labelled. :-) — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 02:18, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Well hot damn, time to go through all the articles again. So weird, Firefox says it's correct >.< ~Farlo Talk 02:19, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Just Google'd it, and that says both are correct, but two Ls is usually used in the UK. Close enough, or should I change them? ~Farlo Talk 02:21, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

(Edit conflict)
 * Labelled appears to be the preferred European/British spelling, but the wiki uses American conventions. So, perhaps it might be better to use something that avoids the issue, e.g. This is the interactive map (see also: map without labels). — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 02:22, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, here goes another round of edits! ~Farlo Talk 02:24, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

To answer your question
"Why do we have this complex template thing going? Why not just type out the landmarks like the rest of the lists?" - because the list is automatic utilizing the landmark category and region location categories. Otherwise it'd be done manually and often landmark pages are created every now and then - I can guarentee that some which didn't get the necessary categories via the infobox template (such as Healing Spring (object) and Mourning Veil Falls (landmark) did not get added onto the list until the categories were added to the article. It also helps with auto-alphabetizing. It's not a necessary thing, though. And there's still a good number of landmarks not listed yet (for instance Drakkar Lake is both an explorable and a landmark (akin to how the Frost Gate is both a mission and landmark, but there's no landmark for Drakkar Lake - though instead of the lake getting a landmark page, "Drakkar" does). -- Konig / talk 11:29, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, good idea :P. After seeing everything that was broken, it'd be a lot to maintain manually, haha. ~FarloUser Farlo Triad.png Talk 14:36, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

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