Signature limits

[Shahed]

Hmmm maybe there will be a smiley that points to its left/right holding a sign "click me" ?

Errr...You'll have to explain that one to me, I'm afraid.
You want me to make a smiley with a sign that says "Click Me!" ?

[FactionHeir]

Errr...You'll have to explain that one to me, I'm afraid.
You want me to make a smiley with a sign that says "Click Me!" ?

Pretty much, though I didn't quite point at you in specific. Was more a suggestion as to additional smileys that can be used/implemented

Thanks for the replies all, I hope this topic will be useful for other people who got sig probs too

[FactionHeir]

Err well I just amended my sig again. Anyone care to check whether it displays fine for them?

Would be good to know how many lines are approx the max. The FAQ says 11, I had people tell me they didn't see past 6 and Tosa sees even less. Its 8 right now, was 7 when you guys had a look

[sapi]

Works fine.

Want gunpowder, mongols and timurids to appear when YOU do? Playing on a different timescale and never get to see the new world?
Click here for the solution
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I'd still strongly suggest that you change to this, though:

Want gunpowder, mongols and timurids to appear when YOU do? Playing on a different timescale and never get to see the new world?
Click here for the solution

In need of VnV/ancillary fixes for 1.02? This file has all you need

Annoyed at laggy battles? Check this thread out for all your performance needs!

Got laggy siege battles in particular? Then this tutorial is for you

[FactionHeir]

Well, it won't let me put "Want gunpowder, mongols and timurids to appear when YOU do? Playing on a different timescale and never get to see the new world?" in one row. It auto splits it into 2.
So overall it didn't quite look at nice
Did put the other stuff into the same row though.

Which one do you prefer?

[sapi]

Well, it won't let me put "Want gunpowder, mongols and timurids to appear when YOU do? Playing on a different timescale and never get to see the new world?" in one row. It auto splits it into 2.
So overall it didn't quite look at nice
Did put the other stuff into the same row though.

Which one do you prefer?

I like it.

I actually intended to suggest things the way they are, and due to the way the quick reply box wrapped the text I did think that I'd posted that in two rows

[TosaInu]

This is what I see now

Want gunpowder, mongols and timurids to appear when YOU do? Playing on a different timescale and never get to see the new world?
Click here for the solution
In need of VnV/ancillary fixes for 1.02? This file has all you need
Annoyed at laggy battles?
Check this thread out for all your performance needs!
Got laggy siege battles in particular?

From head: it's a box limited to 150 pixels high. Depending on the used fontsize, that's good for ~10 lines of text. Obviously, it's not just how you set it, but it also depends on the browsersetting of the reader.

[TosaInu]

FactionHeir,

Could you please wait a bit with updating it?

This is the problem: the box had to be limited. Not only in height but also width. The idea is (at least back then) that some people still work in 800*600 resolution. Wide sigs make posts stretch out and that means that people have to scroll now only up and down, but also left to right. That's a tiring business. A width of 500 was found to be ok.

I don't see a trick yet to make it scale properly. 650 pixels are required to display the lines like you want. That makes scrolling necessary. Looking at experimental skin for a tweak, will then add it to the other skins (if something is found).

[TosaInu]

630 pixels seems to work, not 100% perfect for .. hmm.

Grinding..

[Shahed]

Err well I just amended my sig again. Anyone care to check whether it displays fine for them?

Would be good to know how many lines are approx the max. The FAQ says 11, I had people tell me they didn't see past 6 and Tosa sees even less. Its 8 right now, was 7 when you guys had a look

Hey FH it looks much better. But as I mentioned, IMHO it can do with less text, the less the better, more impact. It does look great though. To improve it further I'd cut it to links only and add the smiley.

Hi Tosa,

Do you have a smiley that says "Click me!" ?

Ja mata.

EDIT: and BTW your signature is working. It's quite freaky actually it has the alphabet in correct sequence * 5 (!).

[FactionHeir]

OK I just did some final amends to the sig now that Tosa has finished his much appreciated tweaking.

Quite nifty this scaling signature. Was playing with my window width and could see all kinds of combinations till I decided to make it uniform. The increased width limit is very welcome!

Sinan I was thinking of making it only clickable links but it was looking a bit odd especially for the first one with timescales, so I decided for a more uniform format. Also, Tosa's sig has the alphabet 5 times but added 2 letters to some of the next ones. Maybe some kind of code that wants to be deciphered? :D

[TosaInu]

Something like


Sinan?

[FactionHeir]

I was thinking along the lines of the smiley but with one hand pointed to either left or right and holding a sign in the other hand that reads "click me".
The smiley itself could also have this animation:
Actually best if the smiley was holding the sign not like in the example but like holding a card in the direction it is not pointing (like without the stick, and thus hand on card). That way it won't stretch the height and will use the width.