This is fanatastic! Really nice militartistic and foreboding sound to it! It's really great, thanks much for sharing, especially with such an generous license!
Fine enough? He looks AWESOME!! Great work and good luck with the game, be sure to keep us updated on it!
Sunday, July 10, 2016 - 06:43
good to hear bart was on the site recently!
Gotcha about how the new title search works.
Really surprised to hear that button is for the solar search, I thought the solar search was strictly experimental and unfinished.
Not sure where that leaves us now, is there basically no hope for getting the search fixed?
Saturday, July 9, 2016 - 08:06
Yay! Thank you!! I agree, it'd been long enough!
And I agree, from the outside, it sounds like the big red button just does a one time rebuild/update of the search index and whatever the job is that constantly updates the index with new entries is either broken or just plain not running.
The title field is interesting, why does it side step the out of date search index issue? It's nice to have because the main search doesn't seem to actually look in the title field.
Taking my own submission 'Instant Dungeon! art pack' an example:
If I search 'instant dungeon' from the home page, I get nothing.
If I put 'instant dungeon' into the 'search' field on the search art page, I get a list of unrelated submissions, including Ikaros in which I used the words 'instant dungeon' in a comment. But not the actual 'Instant Dungeon art pack' submission.
If I put 'Instant Dungeon' into the 'title' field on the search page, I get a long list of submissions with 'dungeon' in their titles, including the submission 'Instant Dungeon Art Pack'
So just out of curio, is that title search an 'or' search by default, any way to tell it to do an 'and' or 'exact' search?
@chasersgaming: Just a note, bart is typically very vocal around the site, so I think the odds of him being off quietly working on it are probably low, much more likely that he is just busy with other things.
Friday, July 8, 2016 - 06:17
Any admins want to comment on pushing the big scary red button or posting an update of some kind to the front page?
These are great! They've got a great populous/powermonger feel to them!
Thanks for sharing!
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - 16:58
> "its Barts site" and they do not want to over step there boundarys
I totally get being anxious about doing things without bart's direct approval, but I would be amazed if he was upset by someone else posting an update to the front page or pressing the big red button to fix search. Yes the site is his baby, but I don't think he feels possesive of it in that way. By contrast, I think he might appreciate the help and moreover, be thrilled to find that the community he's put so much time and effort into creating here has been able to continue and flourish even through times in which he has not been able to directly care for it himself.
To put some scope on that, I think a dramatic re-write of the code base or overhaul of the site would be over stepping. But just trying some posts letting people know what was going on with the site or rebuilding the search index, I just can't see him being upset by that, especially if it was done by one of the long time admins that have themselves put alot of time and effort into the site over the years.
Regarding search and the big red button, here is clint.bellanger describing the button:
@chasersgaming: I don't know how to say this without sounding confrontational, so please just understand that I don't mean it to sound that way,! However, I do think it merits pointing out that even as an artist who just likes to post work the site is currently not working for you. Search is broken, everything you've posted since January is not showing up in search results (and I checked, you've posted alot of great stuff since then! ;) That means no one will find the work, if your intent is to share it with others, that stinks! :(
These are great! Thanks much for sharing! And yeah, reusing the same palette definitely helps, makes it much easier to use the different sets together in the same game.
@Joth: since the topic has been raised.... Don't forget to check into the OGA-BY license. It's basically CC-BY without the anti-DRM stuff so it could a good fit for you depending on what you are looking for in a license for your work.
Also, speaking of Kenny, one of his sets, can't recall which one off the top of my head, has a great example of a bunch of tunes that are all distinct styles but some how march up well enough to all exist in the same project. Only downside is they are all very short loops so they can get repetitive very quickly. Still worth looking into if you'd like an example.
This is fanatastic! Really nice militartistic and foreboding sound to it! It's really great, thanks much for sharing, especially with such an generous license!
Fine enough? He looks AWESOME!! Great work and good luck with the game, be sure to keep us updated on it!
good to hear bart was on the site recently!
Gotcha about how the new title search works.
Really surprised to hear that button is for the solar search, I thought the solar search was strictly experimental and unfinished.
Not sure where that leaves us now, is there basically no hope for getting the search fixed?
Yay! Thank you!! I agree, it'd been long enough!
And I agree, from the outside, it sounds like the big red button just does a one time rebuild/update of the search index and whatever the job is that constantly updates the index with new entries is either broken or just plain not running.
The title field is interesting, why does it side step the out of date search index issue? It's nice to have because the main search doesn't seem to actually look in the title field.
Taking my own submission 'Instant Dungeon! art pack' an example:
If I search 'instant dungeon' from the home page, I get nothing.
If I put 'instant dungeon' into the 'search' field on the search art page, I get a list of unrelated submissions, including Ikaros in which I used the words 'instant dungeon' in a comment. But not the actual 'Instant Dungeon art pack' submission.
If I put 'Instant Dungeon' into the 'title' field on the search page, I get a long list of submissions with 'dungeon' in their titles, including the submission 'Instant Dungeon Art Pack'
So just out of curio, is that title search an 'or' search by default, any way to tell it to do an 'and' or 'exact' search?
@chasersgaming: Just a note, bart is typically very vocal around the site, so I think the odds of him being off quietly working on it are probably low, much more likely that he is just busy with other things.
Any admins want to comment on pushing the big scary red button or posting an update of some kind to the front page?
These are great! They've got a great populous/powermonger feel to them!
Thanks for sharing!
> "its Barts site" and they do not want to over step there boundarys
I totally get being anxious about doing things without bart's direct approval, but I would be amazed if he was upset by someone else posting an update to the front page or pressing the big red button to fix search. Yes the site is his baby, but I don't think he feels possesive of it in that way. By contrast, I think he might appreciate the help and moreover, be thrilled to find that the community he's put so much time and effort into creating here has been able to continue and flourish even through times in which he has not been able to directly care for it himself.
To put some scope on that, I think a dramatic re-write of the code base or overhaul of the site would be over stepping. But just trying some posts letting people know what was going on with the site or rebuilding the search index, I just can't see him being upset by that, especially if it was done by one of the long time admins that have themselves put alot of time and effort into the site over the years.
Regarding search and the big red button, here is clint.bellanger describing the button:
http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/search-cannot-find-recent-art#comment-...
and bart confirming that he did indeed press the button to fix the search issue last time around:
http://opengameart.org/comment/42085#comment-42085
@chasersgaming: I don't know how to say this without sounding confrontational, so please just understand that I don't mean it to sound that way,! However, I do think it merits pointing out that even as an artist who just likes to post work the site is currently not working for you. Search is broken, everything you've posted since January is not showing up in search results (and I checked, you've posted alot of great stuff since then! ;) That means no one will find the work, if your intent is to share it with others, that stinks! :(
These are great! Thanks much for sharing! And yeah, reusing the same palette definitely helps, makes it much easier to use the different sets together in the same game.
'Lights are on but nobody's home'
Really well put, this sums it perfectly.
I second the idea of admins posting regularly to the front page.
Is bart the only one who can do that currently?
Even just a 'nothing new to report' post would be fine. Just a heartbeat and let people know site administration is still alive.
@Joth: since the topic has been raised.... Don't forget to check into the OGA-BY license. It's basically CC-BY without the anti-DRM stuff so it could a good fit for you depending on what you are looking for in a license for your work.
Also, speaking of Kenny, one of his sets, can't recall which one off the top of my head, has a great example of a bunch of tunes that are all distinct styles but some how march up well enough to all exist in the same project. Only downside is they are all very short loops so they can get repetitive very quickly. Still worth looking into if you'd like an example.
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