EQ Item Window Mission

We Need User Help

Why we need a whole bunch of pics of items in the new item window...

 

The old item window was really cool (personally loved this UI for the look of it):

 

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However, we need a pile of submissions of items with the newer item window:

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Here's the why:

1. There was a big game update to items in 2008, user Oxgoad ran literally thousands of items through the item collector and basically everything I have checked so far means that Lucy entry from 2008 doesn't match all the data on the old item window. Example: races usable by, slots used in  --though the big change must have been something more mundane to impact that number of items. Also, the modern item window just shows more information.

 

2. Item collector has been down for some time. 6000 items recently had quest tag added to them. Getting these pics would make that known here (while the item collector is currently being worked on).

 

3. Most of the impacted items are junk in current era (and some were junk in Kunark and even classic era). So we are talking stuff that is rarely posted about, run through the item collector intentionally, or has pics submitted for. Except see #2...

 

Don't worry, if we have a pic in the old item window, we'll keep it too!

 

Also, we need pics of people wearing the equippable items that show for a lot of old items. There is an overlap in that we tend to need both kinds of pics for the same items (except most robes... we seem to have lots of those pics, usually for multiple races). Splintering Club was a "need both" until Drewinette took care of the item window part.

Lots of people could dabble in this in mission, if interested. Basically pick a zone from Luclin and prior content (though some PoP stuff I have peeked at might need this attention too) and kill/loot some stuff. Take some pics and submit them. Hopefully some are willing to give this a whirl.

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# Sep 27 2016 at 3:36 PM Rating: Good
GBATE!! Never saw it coming
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Starting aboot now I'll be uploading a bunch of item window stuff. Mostly boring stuff, but, hey...stuff.
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# Sep 17 2016 at 8:08 PM Rating: Decent
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I stopped contributing the moment I had to pay to conveniently access the very information that I helped provide. We're all aware of what a server costs, especially one that takes 20 seconds to serve every 3rd page. Now, If you're willing to pay us $5 for a picture, that's another story.
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# Sep 17 2016 at 8:39 PM Rating: Excellent
Stabulous wrote:
I stopped contributing the moment I had to pay to conveniently access the very information that I helped provide. We're all aware of what a server costs, especially one that takes 20 seconds to serve every 3rd page. Now, If you're willing to pay us $5 for a picture, that's another story.


We don't run the website. You'll need to talk to ZAM about that. All we do is add and remove content.
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we need to post better info on how to take these pics
# Sep 16 2016 at 8:46 AM Rating: Good
SIZE of a picture is one of the reasons some pics will not be appoved.

like what setting should they change their ScreenshotType= to submit a pic?


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-Screenshots will now save to a "Screenshot" folder in your EQ directory
-You can now change the format your screenshots are saved in by adding the "ScreenshotType=" line in your eqclient.ini file, which is in your EverQuest directory. To save in jpg format you would change or add the line to read "ScreenshotType=jpg". Supported formats are bmp, jpg, tga, dds and png. Screenshots will continue to save in bmp format unless this line is added.

we need to post better info on how to take these pics
# Sep 16 2016 at 10:38 PM Rating: Excellent
Larth wrote:
SIZE of a picture is one of the reasons some pics will not be appoved.

like what setting should they change their ScreenshotType= to submit a pic?


Screenshots
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-Screenshots will now save to a "Screenshot" folder in your EQ directory
-You can now change the format your screenshots are saved in by adding the "ScreenshotType=" line in your eqclient.ini file, which is in your EverQuest directory. To save in jpg format you would change or add the line to read "ScreenshotType=jpg". Supported formats are bmp, jpg, tga, dds and png. Screenshots will continue to save in bmp format unless this line is added.


Agreed we need a wiki on a HOWTO to edit pictures. bmp, jpg, png all work for the ScreenshotType=. Screenshots of just items usually requires editing the picture and cropping out everything but the item, this will drastically cut down on the size of the file. We won't approve a screenshot of lets say 1920X1080 of someone just showing off an item window. That will have to be cropped to just the item window first and then of course I usually shrink the image if it's too large after that point.
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we need to post better info on how to take these pics
# Sep 17 2016 at 5:40 AM Rating: Excellent
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Yeah, if my wording was unclear... we don't use full screenshot for pics (aside from the images of a zone under the zone listing).
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