Organizing the Graphics forum by GFX style

[underFlo]

So are you just going to like ignore Emral's thread? Imo it makes these subforums practically useless.

[aero]

So are you just going to like ignore Emral's thread? Imo it makes these subforums practically useless.

It's already stickied?

[Magician]

If you want to call yourself the leader of the SMBX community, don't look at SMBX in a negative way and actually do something for the community that would benefit it.

That's a bit unfair. Joey is not debating whether or not to do something to benefit SMBX users; rather we're debating on the means.

Joey, I assume it's possible to have the index take and post data directly from user submissions in the GFX forum? Or is that exactly what you're going for?

So are you just going to like ignore Emral's thread? Imo it makes these subforums practically useless.

On the other hand, that thread requires all the effort to be on the part of Emral to organize the submissions (not that Emral is doing a bad job), when a system that is easy for any user to update to would be inherently better in my opinion.

I use subforums for graphics on NSMBX because it's a forum, not an entire website like smbxgame.com is. As such, using subforums at NSMBX the easiest way for users to submit and look for content without as much effort as would be required by other means, and part of the reason I took such a barebones, low-maintenance approach is because of that depreciating interest in SMBX Joey mentioned, not in spite of it. That being said, a cataloguing system would be great for this site.

[underFlo]

So are you just going to like ignore Emral's thread? Imo it makes these subforums practically useless.

It's already stickied?

ik, I wasn't talking to the staff, I was talking to Tervantez especially since what he wanted to do is p much exactly what Emral already did.

[Emral]

On the other hand, that thread requires all the effort to be on the part of Emral to organize the submissions (not that Emral is doing a bad job), when a system that is easy for any user to update to would be inherently better in my opinion.

If there happens to be downtime on my end and I find myself unable to update the thread for a certain amount of time, I can contact a moderator if they're kind enough to take over for a bit (as moderators can edit any topic), or give editing permissions to someone who's willing to take over for that period of time. Importing all the currently available graphics will also not take longer than a week, so there's no reason to worry about that.

I can see your point though and what you bring up is a better system, also in my opinion, if it weren't for the existence of people who destroy the system, randomly delete entries or move them around, rename them, whatever. Most wiki entries I remember from 2013 ended up being edited to the point where they were nothing but absolute bullshit and dank memes. Some restriction in terms of editing permission has to be made.

[Magician]

Yeah, allowing anyone to edit/delete the content would definitely be bad. Posting and flagging bad posts would be limited to registered forum users and editing/deleting posts would be limited to staff. I should have been more specific.

[Wohlstand]

I think, we should to create a GFX catalogue system which will provide search by various things to have able find stuff more convenient. It is my old idea to implement this thing to allow find necessary graphics to get usage of them. Engine will be based on the database with tables: graphics and categories, styles. We will have able to search graphics by: title, style, category, color theme, etc.

This would be the best option. I could probably create it but it would take some time from me. Feel free to create something like this and I'll review it and add it to the graphics section of the site.

While I busy with diploma, I have some sketches and technical schemes of new system. This system will use Web-UI to have work with system via browser and JSON-API which allows a creation of side software to manage graphics stuff with more convenient way. When I will finish my diploma project, I will have more time to do works with a stuff.

[sleepy]

But by following that logic and mindset, if we created a forum dedicated to SMBX, we would end up removing it somewhere down the road.

Do you like creating pointless arguments?

Did you bother to read the rest of my post or are you just nitpicking reasons to call me out for something irrelevant?

Did 8bit seriously get banned by this post?

[aero]

Did 8bit seriously get banned by this post?

No, it's nobodies business anyway. Any future replies here about it will earn a warning. Back on topic please.

[Erik]

I think it should be like this then

SMB1
SMB2
SMB3
SMW
Custom
Misc.
GFX Packs

[Squishy Rex]

I personally think it would be a good idea to have more of light/dark/neutral tileset subforums based upon color and look. Hell, we could have gfx judges decide what theme it is! XD

See now I feel like we are digging way too deep into this. Organization usually makes things easier to find, but overcompensating can basically just change the look of the mess at hand without actually fixing the problem. Not too sure about GFX Judges either, LJs serve a good purpose, but judging graphics might be a bit pointless. Constructive criticism is enough to helping budding designers grow and existing designers further develop their work.

In my opinion, if we stuck by the default SMBX styles to begin with, it would sort out the most of the mess at hand. Miscellaneous graphics could be further sorted over time anyway. If one particular Misc style became popular or heavy developed they could be sanctioned their own sub-forum like SMB3 etc. Really for now all we simply need in the form of sub-forums would be:
SMB1
SMB2
SMB3
SMW
Metroid
Loz
Misc

[Mable]

If thats a joke Snifit... Damn.. *cough* nothing actually everything is fine.