Teleport/Greater Teleport Updates

[ArkoHighStar]

Gol's Death taxi now offically endorsed by Turbine

[MysticTheurge]

I know. Q and I have poked around on this numerous times. It's apparently not an easy fix, and we're having to have someone look into it. When things are easy, we just "do" them... if we don't just do them, then it means there's something more complicated preventing us from doing it

Um... actually. It is pretty easy.

If you give me the graphic (I might even be able to pull it from an old bookmark) and FTP access, I'll do it for you in the next five minutes.

[Tolero]

Um... actually. It is pretty easy.

If you give me the graphic (I might even be able to pull it from an old bookmark) and FTP access, I'll do it for you in the next five minutes.

Well I'm not a complete nub ^^ as I said, if it were easy, we would have done it already... heck we got the LOTRO one working, so when the DDO one started pitching a fit we had to dig around and found something out of our hands lol. So now we're poking the hands who can do something about it, just takes time.

[MysticTheurge]

Well I'm not a complete nub ^^ as I said, if it were easy, we would have done it already... heck we got the LOTRO one working, so when the DDO one started pitching a fit we had to dig around and found something out of our hands lol. So now we're poking the hands who can do something about it, just takes time.

I know. I figured this was the case.

It's just, I may not know anything about coding video games or what it takes to do something in DDO, but I sure as heck know what it takes to put a favicon.ico file in the right directory.

[DaveyCrockett]

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Thank you for a long-awaited response to this thread! There are many of us who appreciate knowing that GT/T haven't been forgotten.

[Aspenor]

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Got something to tell us, Davey?

[MysticTheurge]

Got something to tell us, Davey?

I think maybe, just maybe, that he Hearts Tolero.

[SqtYork]

I think the biggest problem with allowing for binding locations is that it opens up a whole new avenue for altering the difficultly for quest instances. you bind near the end of a quest. Then pop out get all your SPs back, then come back in to finish. Or you finish the quest, restart it and go right to the end. You could skip all the intervening non required fights and have a series of wizards that each had the spots bound. I can see the advantage of binding non quest stuff. Binding the near the entrance to the Orchard, and other long runs from res locations would be nice, it would cut the release and return time, but I'm not sure how much that really benefits folks. I remember wizards made a lot of gold porting folks from point to point in EQ before the gates opened up on the moon.

[MysticTheurge]

I think the biggest problem with allowing for binding locations is that it opens up a whole new avenue for altering the difficultly for quest instances.

Not if you only allow binding in public instances.

(Or maybe public instances and explorer zones.)

[Ustice]

I know. Q and I have poked around on this numerous times. It's apparently not an easy fix, and we're having to have someone look into it. When things are easy, we just "do" them... if we don't just do them, then it means there's something more complicated preventing us from doing it

Um Tolero... Copy the file from http://www.ddo.com/favicon.ico to the location on the server for http://forums.ddo.com/favicon.ico. If you don't have access, someone does, and can do it in less than 30 seconds. No new art is needed. Ctrl(Cmd on Apple)-C, click, Ctrl(Cmd)-V. done...


Please?

Btw, Favicons support an alpha channel so we don't have that white halo.

Speaking of which... The same can be said of the smilies.

<-- Hard to see.

[Tolero]

Um Tolero... Copy the file from http://www.ddo.com/favicon.ico to the location on the server for http://forums.ddo.com/favicon.ico. If you don't have access, someone does, and can do it in less than 30 seconds. No new art is needed. Ctrl(Cmd on Apple)-C, click, Ctrl(Cmd)-V. done...


Please?

Btw, Favicons support an alpha channel so we don't have that white halo.

Speaking of which... The same can be said of the smilies.

<-- Hard to see.

Yes the white halo smilies drive me nuts... some apparently missed the last fix, so I'll poke on that ... (cool and smile and question mark off the top of my head.)

I'll see what I can do on the favicon again...I find bribes of pizza and booze work best to expedite my requests hehehe. Personally it drives me nuts because I provide some support on the lotro side as well, and I much prefer having the quick visual of the ddo icon vs the ring icon.

[Lifespawn]

I know. Q and I have poked around on this numerous times. It's apparently not an easy fix, and we're having to have someone look into it. When things are easy, we just "do" them... if we don't just do them, then it means there's something more complicated preventing us from doing it

just using the dev tracker i had to comment.

Don't know if it's been suggested yet but a quick "fix" would be to add a door like we have in all the seperate houses to meridia and while your add it can we get one to the harbor?

[Ustice]

I'll see what I can do on the favicon again...I find bribes of pizza and booze work best to expedite my requests hehehe. Personally it drives me nuts because I provide some support on the lotro side as well, and I much prefer having the quick visual of the ddo icon vs the ring icon.

I appreciate it, since I use faviconize tabs with Firefox, it makes it a lot easier to see.

[MysticTheurge]

Btw, Favicons support an alpha channel so we don't have that white halo.

Speaking of which... The same can be said of the smilies.

<-- Hard to see.

The alpha channel doesn't help, you still have to anti-alias the graphic, because the alpha can still only work on a pixel by pixel basis.

The original vector graphics need to be anti-aliased against the dark grey of the forum background and then have the alpha channel added.

The favicon (for the record) should be anti-aliased against white, since that's what it's most often going to be set against... when people aren'y quoting it on the forums.

[Hence]

I know. I figured this was the case.

It's just, I may not know anything about coding video games or what it takes to do something in DDO, but I sure as heck know what it takes to put a favicon.ico file in the right directory.

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/favicon.ico">

Put the icon in your root directory! *giggle*

[Ustice]

The alpha channel doesn't help, you still have to anti-alias the graphic, because the alpha can still only work on a pixel by pixel basis.

The original vector graphics need to be anti-aliased against the dark grey of the forum background and then have the alpha channel added.

The favicon (for the record) should be anti-aliased against white, since that's what it's most often going to be set against... when people aren'y quoting it on the forums.

It does if you create it as a PNG file (256 levels of transparency) and it is a part of the file. It is like the current favicon. If you look above, it looks just fine against the dark background of the forums, and the light background of the address bar.

That being said...

I agree that the smilies need to be re-created from their original to remove that halo effect. You can't just pull it off.

On an unrelated note, MT (Chris, I now know) congrats on co-hosting ddocast.

[ArkoHighStar]

He's just a last minute thing related to some Live Event action (of which I cannot speak of further on pain of...bad...stuff... for spoiling birthday surprises). If it were as simple as just "doing" it, we'd do it. As soon as I, or one of the others, has more information, we'll let you all know. I've had numerous talks about a few different features, all of which have to be balanced against other things to be worked on. But I understand that teleport is high on player radar atm, especially due to Meridia, hence why we're trying to shuffle it further up the chain. But until that shuffling gets done, I at least wanted to provide some alternatives.

I sure hope the anniversary is noint just a bunch of live events, while I am sure this will make the RPer's happy I have no desire for more live events unless it is Stormreach under attack and casters can use all their spells in town. I justhave no desire to run around looking for stuff so I can get some useless trinket

[MysticTheurge]

It does if you create it as a PNG file (256 levels of transparency) and it is a part of the file. It is like the current favicon. If you look above, it looks just fine against the dark background of the forums, and the light background of the address bar.

That's because it's relatively square and requires very little anti-aliasing.

[Ustice]

Relatively so, but not completely, plus the inner angles would still show otherwise.

[Yaga_Nub]

Usti and MT,

S*FU (said jokingly ) and go make your own thread about graphics!