New images for docs?

[Huntkillaz]

should we ?


(yes wp will need new ..i will get some when i find out howto turn tga to an image)

[sPlOrYgOn]

a tga is an image..

[Huntkillaz]

wow i never knew that.....guess u learn something every day...

(massive files though 2mb+)

hmm so what u think of the new updated logo

need to fix around the gun make it white

[sPlOrYgOn]

well it looks kind of hippy like..

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

^^ I second this...

[Huntkillaz]

here's what i came up with so far this morning.. hope u guys like it

i was thinkin we link the old docs (this could be set put up as a webpage online as well)
and tell em what happen after CF's 2.5 in the intro of the new one...

note:forgot to add link for bot in menu

so basically intro faq n version history will be what they r..

The Bot: will be about the bot n bot's commands
wp basic == basics of wp101
wp advanced == Advanced techniques..tips n trick of the skilled master (includes scripts)

Cf's ones will also be included (may re do em for clarity) (ie seperate the bot n iwaypoints but keep em as the original)

will come as a metamod pack (statsme too?)



the side menu will neva go..and the top logo to...the main is the only place tha will change depending on what the user clicks...

so how about it guys?

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

you know... mspaint has a nice feature... it's called "write text"

</nag>

But overall I have no preferences. I suck at design.
Ask guys who master photoshop...

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

Well, we can always argue about the layout once the content is there - as long as the document structure is ok, it's no big deal to change the look of menu buttons and things like background / font colour.
And yes, we will need new screenshots- partly to demonstrate some of the new features, partly to show the new (visible) flags, and I'll also make some new ones for the "common errors" section because I might add one or two points there.
Huntkillaz, get ACDSee (you might be able to get an older version, like 2.xx or maybe even 3.xx, totally legal and for free - it's a great tool for viewing and archiving image collections, and you can easily read TGAs with it and convert them to JPG (adjustable settings). Once you've found a good setting, you can even easily batch convert a whole bunch of files, and there's also a very neat batch rename function.
However, IMHO Photoshop would be the best choice to create all necessary images - it allows for the best tweaking to ptimal size / quality / web compatibility. The logo, for example: I suppose it's a JPG right now - an 8-Bit PNG reduced to no more than those colours that are actually needed could result in a crisper but yet smaller image... The same applies if we want to make close-up screenshots of the bot menu or waypointing menu instead of writing that stuff down... whenever there's something written in an image, JPG is not the ideal choice - some GIF or PNG formats are usually better for that purpose.

[SoUlFaThEr]

i rule photoshop.........

what should i do
just gimme a list of graphics i should make and im all over it.

[Huntkillaz]

replace the old bot banner with a slighly more 21st century or beyond one..

i think 400(across)x150(down) pixels looks nice....
hi res images ..but max of 20 kb

oh. i tried doing one it seemed to dissapear ...???
hence why i'm handing the job to u