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New Full Board (Sprite Projects)
#1  August 18, 2013, 05:35:23 am
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With the advancements of all Guilds talented sprite artists and so many threads in Graphics Arts being so useful and deserving of being stickied I think it would be useful to create a child board in GA for the purpose of holding large project and theme threads.
This board would NOT be open to making new threads but threads can be volunteered for the board and/or moved there by mods.

Threads like the theme threads, the sprite expansion thread, maybe the color separation sticky, larger projects like Balthazar, Judas, Diepod, etc's can be moved there (if they desired it)

Ideas to build upon this? Hate the idea?
Last Edit: August 18, 2013, 07:18:08 pm by Just No Point

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Re: New Child Board (Sprite Projects)
#2  August 18, 2013, 05:49:55 am
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Hate the idea

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#3  August 18, 2013, 05:54:42 am
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Re: New Child Board (Sprite Projects)
#4  August 18, 2013, 05:56:23 am
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make it a full board, not a child board, preferably in the mugen section, that way it gains more visibility.
allow people to make threads.
the type of threads that should be there are:
color separation threads, preferably by character basis.
something something about maing new animations for existing characters (not sure in which format, something similar to the threads in projects)
full character editing thread, this is something that has been hanging for quite a while, some characters were supossed to get worked on by a few guys, by making  character sprite set topics that people can contribute to a good sprite pack can be reached.
The latest is similar to coloru separation, one person wants to make a sprite set (ideally open source, but that's not the point right now), so he gets started on ideas and posts some sample animations the other people in the thread can post more animations that fit the character, refine already existing animations, or contribute in other ways they can. That is kinda the way it was done with zamus and it worked so, so.
     Posted: August 18, 2013, 05:58:24 am
I ave worked on spritesets before, but making the for a full game means that no regular mugen version is available, Indon't mind having the stuff/sprites become open soruce so someone else can code them in mugen (samus actually was started like that but a lot of shit happened and the project shaped weirdly, people like dampir, reu, pots and felo all got involved at some point, and I am sure even more poeple were but I kinda forgot the specifics).

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Re: New Child Board (Sprite Projects)
#5  August 18, 2013, 05:02:50 pm
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The intent that people cannot make their own thread was simply to deter people that won't actually do much. But meh, guess that's not a huge issue really. Just didn't want users to confuse it with the GA section.

I just said child board cause we got so many boards. Got no issues with it being a full board in the MUGEN section. Just keep theme threads in GA where they are at with the one sticky?

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#6  August 18, 2013, 05:35:31 pm
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A full board or a child board? This is the question...

A full board could be divided into two child boards (sprite wip and colour separation wip), a single child board could host every topic (both sprite wip topics and CS wip topics) but it could get messy, but...
If we (we as "you admins, mods", sorry) make a full board it would be another "Graphics Art" board... while the child board could be inserted in the already existing Graphics Art board...

Hmmm, it's tough. I would go for the child board...
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Re: New Child Board (Sprite Projects)
#7  August 18, 2013, 06:32:01 pm
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Just No Point said, August 18, 2013, 05:02:50 pm
The intent that people cannot make their own thread was simply to deter people that won't actually do much. But meh, guess that's not a huge issue really. Just didn't want users to confuse it with the GA section.

I just said child board cause we got so many boards. Got no issues with it being a full board in the MUGEN section. Just keep theme threads in GA where they are at with the one sticky?
I get it, that's the beauty of projects, projects that are not getting worked on get dumped to old pages.

a child board would give it less visibility; also, why would you want theme threads in there ?(I understand having contribution animations separated by theme, to avoid over organization, but I don't get why the current theme threads would be in graphic projects section)

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#8  August 18, 2013, 06:45:01 pm
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The idea of the board came because I was trying to find a good compromise for the theme threads not still being stickied and for the sprite expansion thread.

Theme threads can stay in GA where they are with one master sticky linking them. They're nice to look at but not particularly  useful to MUGEN development like what this board has nicely evolved into.

So Full Board in the MUGEN section under the PROJECTS Boards
For Sprite expansion (as you said there can become theme threads for these there)
Color separation
Edits, conversions, fully sprited characters, etc

For larger projects for the most part.

That sound about right?

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Re: New Child Board (Sprite Projects)
#9  August 18, 2013, 06:50:53 pm
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A full board could be divided into two child boards (sprite wip and colour separation wip)
Now that's just way overkill.
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Yes, maybe... but see it this way.

Colour separating already made sprites is different from making other new sprites.
With colour separating you're updating a spritesheet/sprite work in general. They already exist though.
Adding/creating new sprites can be more new... I don't know how to say it. Basically differentiate one work from another, making it easy for others/everyone to search. That was my idea.
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#11  August 18, 2013, 07:15:58 pm
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I don't feel we are quite to the point were we're producing so much from those 2 types of projects that they can't coexist.  This type of thing is increasing but it's still just a handful of people that do them.

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#12  August 18, 2013, 07:23:40 pm
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Re: New Child Board (Sprite Projects)
#13  August 18, 2013, 07:42:55 pm
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Agreed on there not being enough material for te split, hopefully we will reach a point where splitting is necessary.

Just No Point said, August 18, 2013, 06:45:01 pm
The idea of the board came because I was trying to find a good compromise for the theme threads not still being stickied and for the sprite expansion thread.

Theme threads can stay in GA where they are with one master sticky linking them. They're nice to look at but not particularly  useful to MUGEN development like what this board has nicely evolved into.

So Full Board in the MUGEN section under the PROJECTS Boards
For Sprite expansion (as you said there can become theme threads for these there)
Color separation
Edits, conversions, fully sprited characters, etc

For larger projects for the most part.

That sound about right?
yeah, sounds great.
now to find ways to share sprites in a very efficient manner , something like photobucket (an image host that supports browse-able folders ) might be enough and we can figure out more on the go.

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Re: New Full Board (Sprite Projects)
#14  August 18, 2013, 07:44:22 pm
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Can we make open dropboxes?

EDIT: @Iced: Do you have permission to allow uploading attachments for boards on Guild? Could that solve this?


EDIT: @DKDC: I tried all these options. They work here but not in the staff thread :P (DKDC made a post telling me what I did wrong with the P)
Code: 
 @[user id=7976]Iced[/user]:  @[user id=7976]Iced[/user]:  
 @[user id=49512]Caddie[/user]: @[user id=49512]Caddie[/user]:
Sometimes it's just buggy
'nother edit: yet here it was so powerful it busted through the code tag and added the id numbers lol
Last Edit: August 18, 2013, 07:54:08 pm by Just No Point

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Re: New Full Board (Sprite Projects)
#15  August 18, 2013, 07:58:56 pm
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I have no such permissions.

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Just No Point said, August 18, 2013, 07:15:58 pm
I don't feel we are quite to the point were we're producing so much from those 2 types of projects that they can't coexist.  This type of thing is increasing but it's still just a handful of people that do them.
DKDC said, August 18, 2013, 07:23:40 pm
Compare with the existing Projects board and think about whether this new board deserves more than that one. Plus what JNP said, there's not enough material to fill 2 boards.
I already got it when JustNoPoint replied to me, but it's okay. I understood.
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Re: New Full Board (Sprite Projects)
#17  August 21, 2013, 05:14:45 pm
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Got the O-K from the powers that be for this board. What should the description read?

"For all your large project spriting WIPs. Post full characters from scratch or edits  and Color Separation WIPs.
Not for single sprites. For progress on a characters coding please post in Projects. "

Too long? Would that be better for the "Guidelines sticky" that'll be inside.

Something shorter like "For your larger sprite projects"?

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#18  August 21, 2013, 05:19:33 pm
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"Large sprite project only. Not for single sprites (for this you can create a topic in the Graphics board)" or something along these lines.
I don't think it's too long, the Development Resources and Requests boards have descriptions this long.
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#19  August 21, 2013, 05:22:07 pm
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#20  August 21, 2013, 05:25:43 pm
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I like the idea and would love to see a slightly bigger focus about sprite art here on MFG.

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