How does rep work?

[Nate]

By the way, if anyone wants to use their photoshop skills to come up with something slightly more Oddworldy than those green boxes, feel free. A while back I discussed the matter with Alcar and tried to shrink down the moolah coin images, but they looked kinda shitty.

[Havoc]

Actually it's 10000, but with nothing between that and 2000. So you're saying if we add higher reputation levels, the blocks will automatically configure to accommodate that?

We could stretch it a bit higher, but I don't think we need take it beyond 5000. Once we get as high as 5000, we're talking about fine tuning something that will only affect five members.

I'm not 100% sure how the blocks work, but I can't find an option to configure how much rep = one block either so I would assume they scale to size.

I'd just make increments between the 2000 and the 10000, with 10000 being the ceiling. I can't imagine anyone reaching that any time soon anyway.

[Nate]

Actually, now that I think about it, I think that Alcar once said that there was an internal script that works out how many boxes to show. It's similar to the OWI symbols under the username/title. He said he could tweak the maths of that script to change the display.

[JennyGenesis]

Thing is that is a ghastly colour scheme for a forum, because all Necrum colours are based on darkness and rot. It's a pain because I made the title bar already.

The Industrial theme is dark and that is my favourite.

[Manco]

By the way, if anyone wants to use their photoshop skills to come up with something slightly more Oddworldy than those green boxes, feel free. A while back I discussed the matter with Alcar and tried to shrink down the moolah coin images, but they looked kinda shitty.

Any restrictions on the dimensions, or is it just to be the same size as the current blocks?

e:

Perhaps the Wired and Angry mud faces for positive/negative blocks?

[Alcar]

Actually, now that I think about it, I think that Alcar once said that there was an internal script that works out how many boxes to show. It's similar to the OWI symbols under the username/title. He said he could tweak the maths of that script to change the display.

It's been a while since I've delved in to the vBulletin code, but if I recall correctly there is a hard-coded maximum number of bars that can be displayed. How many bars are displayed on a user's profile is based on this number and your current rep points.

Any restrictions on the dimensions, or is it just to be the same size as the current blocks? Perhaps the Wired and Angry mud faces for positive/negative blocks?

Oooo, those look good. I would prefer if the dimensions are kept around the same size, I don't want the images to be too noticeable / distracting. However, there are actually five or six different colours for the rep bars. I'll find them and post them sometime today.

Alcar...

[Manco]

Oooo, those look good. I would prefer if the dimensions are kept around the same size, I don't want the images to be too noticeable / distracting. However, there are actually five or six different colours for the rep bars. I'll find them and post them sometime today.

No problem - the stuff I posted are maybe a couple of pixels larger/smaller than the originals.

As for multiple colours, probably the easiest solution would be to use the Mudokon face and just Photoshop it into the different colours.

[Wil]

Off the top of my head, the five colours are:

• Positive
• Highly positive
• Balanced
• Negative
• Highly negative

From top to bottom I'd suggest replacing them with Happy, Wired, Neutral, and then either Sad and Angry, or Angry and Deceased.

[Ridg3]

Can we not replace the rep bars with the deceased face to mark out banned members?

[Manco]

Off the top of my head, the five colours are:

• Positive
• Highly positive
• Balanced
• Negative
• Highly negative

From top to bottom I'd suggest replacing them with Happy, Wired, Neutral, and then either Sad and Angry, or Angry and Deceased.

So here's some rough mockups. They're stacked in the same order you posted the default ones in - you can probably tell which icon is which face.

The dimensions of each face are 8px by 13px - 3px taller than the default rep icons.

Can we not replace the rep bars with the deceased face to mark out banned members?

Skull and crossbones doesn't scale down well. I wouldn't recommend it.

[enchilado]

Scaled-down ones looked too blurry to me so I drew these, but they're probably too big.

[Havoc]

As a side note on the banned member thing, can't we put a large skull and crossbones with the text BANNED as the default avatar for banned members? Should be a plugin floating around for that somewhere.

[Alcar]

So here's some rough mockups. They're stacked in the same order you posted the default ones in - you can probably tell which icon is which face.

The dimensions of each face are 8px by 13px - 3px taller than the default rep icons.

Skull and crossbones doesn't scale down well. I wouldn't recommend it.

Super awesome!

I'll probably swap around the Happy and Wired, as I think the Wired expression would suit the Highly Positive bar better.

The dimensions are fine, and I agree regarding the skull and crossbones. Would you be able to convert the icons into PNGs with transparent backgrounds where necessary (keep in mind that the background they will be displayed on could be very light - not just dark)?

Thank you heaps, hopefully I'm not asking too much of you - they'll look fab

Alcar...

[Manco]

Super awesome!

I'll probably swap around the Happy and Wired, as I think the Wired expression would suit the Highly Positive bar better.

The dimensions are fine, and I agree regarding the skull and crossbones. Would you be able to convert the icons into PNGs with transparent backgrounds where necessary (keep in mind that the background they will be displayed on could be very light - not just dark)?

Thank you heaps, hopefully I'm not asking too much of you - they'll look fab

Alcar...

Here's all the icons in an imgur album. Let em know if there's any problems. They all should be transparent PNGs, unless imgur decided to fuck with them.

As a side note on the banned member thing, can't we put a large skull and crossbones with the text BANNED as the default avatar for banned members? Should be a plugin floating around for that somewhere.

And just for fun:

e: fixed some shitty anti-aliasing.

[Alcar]

Cheers, there are two very slight problems:

• The Angry icon is one pixel too tall
• The Deceased icon is one pixel too short

Sorry for being a nag, I just don't want the reputation bar looking weird with different image heights

Alcar...

[Wil]

And just for fun:

You forgot the "Hobowned" one.

[Manco]

Cheers, there are two very slight problems:

• The Angry icon is one pixel too tall
• The Deceased icon is one pixel too short

Sorry for being a nag, I just don't want the reputation bar looking weird with different image heights

Alcar...

Sorry about that, here you go:

You forgot the "Hobowned" one.

[Alcar]

Thank you very much OddHunter, I've gone ahead and added these.

Alcar...

[enchilado]

They're too blurry.... I can't live with this... goodbye OWF...

[Havoc]

Goodbye my only friend...

[MeechMunchie]

Could we space them out with a couple of blank pixels on each?

[AlexFili]

Oddworld & Minecraft? Win win win!
(Necrum Minecraft)

[STM]

This is our chance to put tiny little OANSTs in the rep bar, every face leads you closer to damnation.

[Havoc]

Or... you know. Put this on the page banned users get to see.

[STM]

^ this.