Talk: BarracudaATA

I'd just like to issue you my personal thanks for your work on the wiki. Great Job. ReubenHung 06:00, 9 November 2010 (CST)

Thank you! --Barracuda 12:03, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to thank you also. Thanks for compressing all those images! -F1racer101 10:46, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Hehe, that's just a matter of minutes thanks to some command line tools ;-) --Barracuda 10:52, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to thank you on creating that template! I had no idea how to. great job!--Kizzycocoa 17:15, 22 December 2010 (CST)

No problem, even though the template was really fiddly work. It could be done easier and more elegant with CSS, but that requires edits in the MediaWiki:Common.css stylesheet. --Barracuda 17:24, 22 December 2010 (CST)

Sprites

What are we gonna do about block sprites within the inventory? (the isometric ones) -- Eric304 16:34, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Add them later, I can write a script to combine those images into one sheet. For now, we need to finish blocks and items first. --Barracuda 16:41, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

I've come to inform you that part of fence image on the block template is behind the text, and for the pumpkin, I can only see the side of the pumpkin. Drenay

I've improved the fence already, you probably need to refresh your browser's cache. But what's the problem with the pumpkin? There's only the side and top sprite that can be displayed for it. --Barracuda 19:06, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Some links on the template are red. Drenay 19:16, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

ALERT

We are under attack by a spammer. He deletes content. He goes by the name Hftutyuhioygo and Krftufjikkyuolu; as in he has multiple aliases. Please find someone to IP-BAN him. And finally Monty251; he won't stop posting about his crafting app everywhere. Drenay 19:33, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

That's not my matter, I can't ban people. Ask User:Kizzycocoa. --Barracuda 22:16, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

I would like to thank you for taking such an active role in setting up the sprites for the nav boxes. Resolving the server issues they were causing while still providing the images is a wonderful thing. -- Wynthyst talk 14:17, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

It was a lot of work, but it was worth it. Now the icons look better, cause less server load and are quite intuitive to use. Some templates still are a bit messy and redundant, though, but I'm sure it will be improved sooner or later :) --Barracuda 15:58, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Help!

We are having some issues getting the items template using the sprites working on the Dutch page. [1] it seems to only want to display the first sprite. Any chance you could take a look at it and help? Thanks Barracuda! -- Wynthyst talk 22:31, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Meh... nvm. I figured out what we were doing wrong :D -- Wynthyst talk 22:50, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Oh, ok. What was the problem? :o --Barracuda 09:20, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Forgot the sprite/pos template :P -- Wynthyst talk 09:53, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

About that, why do repeaters have ladders? Drenay 03:44, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Uh, where? I updated the image and replaced an duplicate ladder sprite, but I updated the template as well. Or is the Dutch wiki using the image from the English one? --Barracuda 17:07, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

New request for help

Hi Barracuda! I'm trying to figure out how to make this sprite system work on other wikis, and running into difficulties cuz I don't really understand it. Would you be willing to help me? Please email me, using the Email this user link from my userpage. Thanks! -- Wynthyst talk 23:53, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I'll help you out tomorrow :) --Barracuda 03:51, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Link templates broken

I don't know what you've done, or why, but the link templates don't work now.
Originally you had {{ItemLink|id=id|link|name}} now it just ignores the last one, so the link uses the link as its name, which as you can see on Template:Items looks terrible. –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 06:42, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Right, I forgot to implement the third parameter correctly in Template:SpriteLink. It's working again now. --Barracuda 07:05, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Nope, the image links to the text, instead of the actual link (look at the sun image on Template:SpriteLink for example). –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 07:36, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. Note to self: need to set up an experimental MediaWiki server for template testing... --Barracuda 07:48, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

You could just do what I do and test it under your userspace. I even have a project area to contain anything that has a lot of pages (like the sprite templates), you just need to make sure to write down all the sub pages on the project page so you can easily get around and not get lost/confused. –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 07:56, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Ok, but there's still the "problem" that all changes on user pages appear on the recent changes page. I think a local, private server gives more room for silly testing :) --Barracuda 08:44, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

You can always use my wiki as a test zone... a few of us do WynWiki and all the sprite stuff is already there :P -- Wynthyst talk 10:59, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

ItemCSS.png

Doesn't have a sprite for when one doesn't exist (like in the case of map). –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 08:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

I've noticed that, too. Which is really strange, because I'm 100% sure there was an icon for unknown sprites in the sheet before. But it's in none of the previous revisions... --Barracuda 14:42, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

map/map-item:What's the difference?

Seriously? What?--Yours truly, Ajc_1254 21:30, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

There is none; they both do the exact same thing. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 22:45, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Then why is it there?Yours truly, Ajc_1254 23:23, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Both were added by Barracuda; you'd have to ask them why they added both. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 23:33, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm going to put this on his talk page.From Moi,Ajc_1254! 23:39, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

IIRC, I did that because of Map vs Map (Item). It's just an alias and it might actually be used, so I wouldn't bother to change it. --Barracuda 10:22, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

I just wanted to know. Well, thanks!--From Moi,Ajc_1254! 19:55, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Music Discs

Before you go uploading all of them, look at my contribs and scroll down a bit, I've uploaded them all. --Wizjany 17:15, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Meh. Thanks, the recent changes page is currently a bit hard to track... --Barracuda 17:18, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Renderings

I just wanted to say that your Isometric renderings are BEAUTIFUL! Good job! ☁ Shockman25 ☂ Talk ☁ 06:23, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you! Still, there are some reverts here and there for strange reasons... maybe they're not good enough yet. :> --Barracuda 06:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Well you're using ambient occlusion and no shading. Not very minecrafty.

I don't have so much of a problem with ambient occlusion (although it'd be better without it, plus it'd be a lot faster to render), but the shading is certainly necessary. –ultradude25 ^(T|C) at 07:43, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

You're right. I previously had some troubles to make the shading look good, but I think I've got the correct settings now and will redo the renderings with shading. And I think AO looks really great on some models, like the Silverfish, for example. --Barracuda 07:58, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Ambient on Mobs?

How do mobs have ambient... that makes no since. I mean, ya it's the wiki, but it's to help show what mobs look like not what they look like with all this added shadows and stuff. –The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wall142 ^{(Talk|Contribs)} Please sign your posts with ~~~~

There's currently no way to create isometric images of the mobs that look exactly like in the game (it would be possible with mods, but it's pretty hard to create one for that, even with the Minecraft Coder Pack). I'm just taking advantage of the possibilities of using an offline renderer. Minecraft blocks are already using ambient occlusion, so why not the models, too? --Barracuda 08:31, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Barracuda your renders are fine and they've pretty much become the standard. Please file a formal complaint if Wall142 continues his regressive edits. --Ecksearoh 18:56, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm thinking about that, but it's not just Wall142. User:Calinou also likes edit-wars. I've the impression that the images need to be protected again... --Barracuda 20:06, 16 October 2011 (UTC)