The Search settings page claims the site is 99% indexed, with only 3 items waiting to be indexed. (I don't believe it).
There is a "re-index site" button. Here's the warning it gives:
The search index is not cleared but systematically updated to reflect the new settings. Searching will continue to work but new content won't be indexed until all existing content has been re-indexed. This action cannot be undone.
I did not press the button (yet). I left a message for BartK on IRC to see what he thinks.
Some basic recommendations when making characters: the vertical lines are 2px wide. The bottom horizontal line is 2px wide, and higher horizontal lines are 1px. There is a black outline, and also a 1px drop shadow straight down. Feel free to increase the total font height to make accent marks and diacritics look correct.
When used, kerning should be "-1px", as in, neighboring letters should have overlapping black outlines.
All of Nikita's submissions, except his comments in this thread, have been unpublished per his request.
The mods can still see the posts and art he's submitted. Someone is looking through those to see if we want to go back to those original art sources for permission. A lot of those submissions have issues for various reasons.
There are things easily overlooked when submitting art made by others. Some of us mods have experience in different areas of game art. E.g. us mods that work with 3D art know to watch out for textures from non-free archives like cgtextures. The mods that deal with 2D sprite sheets can regcognize popular trace-overs like those from Fire Emblem or Advance Warfare.
On a large set of art, sometimes we won't recognize issues right away. E.g. in an icon set eventually someone might recognize that a few of the icons basically identical to some obscure game. That puts us in a tough situation -- we can remove those specific icons and repost the art. But now every icon in that set is suspicious -- that artist has a workflow problem where creating unauthorized derivative works is not an issue for them. Derivative works are a big deal for us as a site. We can't prove the remaining icons are original or borrowed, and don't know if that artist is a valid source for art at all.
Maybe art submitted that isn't original art should always go to a moderation queue? There are so many things that can be missed.
Legality is good, but injured feelings lead to being sued.
Even if it's a lawsuit our users or our website might win, being sued is expensive. Being sued could crush an indie team/project even if it's a lawsuit they could definitely win.
What happens to our reputation as a website if someone starts suing games that use their art, uploaded to OpenGameArt without their permission? Even if they are wrong, that would probably mean no one ever uses OpenGameArt again.
I have access to the Drupal admin pages.
The Search settings page claims the site is 99% indexed, with only 3 items waiting to be indexed. (I don't believe it).
There is a "re-index site" button. Here's the warning it gives:
I did not press the button (yet). I left a message for BartK on IRC to see what he thinks.
usr_share: I haven't tried that, but it sounds interesting! I'll keep that in mind if I ever polish up an app version of one of my games.
usr_share that is amazing! Thanks for doing it!
If anyone wants to help expand the coverage to more languages, I'd recommend using the characters described here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-15
Those characters would cover the languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Kurdish, Latin, Luxembourgish, Malay, Norwegian, Occitan, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Walloon.
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Some basic recommendations when making characters: the vertical lines are 2px wide. The bottom horizontal line is 2px wide, and higher horizontal lines are 1px. There is a black outline, and also a 1px drop shadow straight down. Feel free to increase the total font height to make accent marks and diacritics look correct.
When used, kerning should be "-1px", as in, neighboring letters should have overlapping black outlines.
I'm sure someone will create a TTF version (please do!).
Note though that the clever part of the font is kinda lost if you're doing vector font scaling. Fonts designed as vector first will turn out better.
@Optimus Banana
Yes, that's the best way to do it. Thanks for asking!
undesired, thanks! I corrected the authorship.
I'll have to make him a special guest character in one of our Flare games.
Nice work! You weren't kidding when you said you can't stop making bricks.
Now if someone would make an infinite Megaman level generator...
All of Nikita's submissions, except his comments in this thread, have been unpublished per his request.
The mods can still see the posts and art he's submitted. Someone is looking through those to see if we want to go back to those original art sources for permission. A lot of those submissions have issues for various reasons.
There are things easily overlooked when submitting art made by others. Some of us mods have experience in different areas of game art. E.g. us mods that work with 3D art know to watch out for textures from non-free archives like cgtextures. The mods that deal with 2D sprite sheets can regcognize popular trace-overs like those from Fire Emblem or Advance Warfare.
On a large set of art, sometimes we won't recognize issues right away. E.g. in an icon set eventually someone might recognize that a few of the icons basically identical to some obscure game. That puts us in a tough situation -- we can remove those specific icons and repost the art. But now every icon in that set is suspicious -- that artist has a workflow problem where creating unauthorized derivative works is not an issue for them. Derivative works are a big deal for us as a site. We can't prove the remaining icons are original or borrowed, and don't know if that artist is a valid source for art at all.
Maybe art submitted that isn't original art should always go to a moderation queue? There are so many things that can be missed.
Legality is good, but injured feelings lead to being sued.
Even if it's a lawsuit our users or our website might win, being sued is expensive. Being sued could crush an indie team/project even if it's a lawsuit they could definitely win.
What happens to our reputation as a website if someone starts suing games that use their art, uploaded to OpenGameArt without their permission? Even if they are wrong, that would probably mean no one ever uses OpenGameArt again.
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