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Re: New Ranks

Postby Taycamgame » Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:46 am

Cedur wrote:
Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:53 am
Ok but why had the size to be decreased as well? The earlier small ranks (Goomba, Shyguy etc.) had a good size. This is so small that it's barely noticeable. (except for Fryguy, Wart, Reznor ... the other sprites should have their size as well)
What i find weird is that the Egg ranks have been left untouched, and are still at their usual size.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby Cedur » Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:45 pm

Yeah, the egg ranks should have the same size (I'm assuming they'll stay)

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Re: New Ranks

Postby Luna » Sat Jan 16, 2021 3:41 pm

I feel like the rank images should be a bit bigger.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby erkyp3rky » Sat Jan 16, 2021 5:20 pm

feels a bit primitive right now and im not a fan of the smaller icons, but i guess itll do

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Re: New Ranks

Postby PdizzleParker » Sun Jan 17, 2021 1:09 am

I'm gonna miss good ol' Mega Mole, but I like Spike too.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby Cedur » Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:09 am

thegameseum wrote:
Sun Jan 17, 2021 1:09 am
I'm gonna miss good ol' Mega Mole, but I like Spike too.

Monty Mole was pushed back to 125-150 :P

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Re: New Ranks

Postby krakin » Mon Jan 18, 2021 3:26 pm

Cedur wrote:
Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:53 am
Ok but why had the size to be decreased as well? The earlier small ranks (Goomba, Shyguy etc.) had a good size. This is so small that it's barely noticeable. (except for Fryguy, Wart, Reznor ... the other sprites should have their size as well)
Yeah, it's kinda hard to see the new ranks, gotta strain my eyes a bit. Making them a little bigger shouldn't be too much of a problem, unless you don't want to go through the trouble of spending all day resizing them

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Re: New Ranks

Postby aero » Mon Jan 18, 2021 5:42 pm

Ranks are decorations. They're not important. No need to strain your eyes.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby Cedur » Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:59 am

With that attitude you might as well drop them altogether. Several people are not 100% happy with the current change so you shouldn't dismiss their concern like that ...

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Re: New Ranks

Postby Marina » Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:24 am

We tried to reach a compromise between removing them entirely and having large images that bloat up the screen size. They're neat to have but shouldn't take up large portions of the screen.

Though, I don't mean to dismiss the straining eye argument, but I can't help but find it odd, considering the icons are now roughly the size of the text size on the forums (at least for me, may differ for other people) so if the icons are too small to make out, shouldn't that be the same case for the text?

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Re: New Ranks

Postby erkyp3rky » Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:21 am

would it be possible to make big/small icons togglable? if it was thatd be the best way to go because if you're compromising youd want to cater to both sides. either way im happy, just a suggestion.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby Luna » Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:26 am

Aristo wrote:
Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:24 am
We tried to reach a compromise between removing them entirely and having large images that bloat up the screen size. They're neat to have but shouldn't take up large portions of the screen.

Though I don't mean to dismiss the straining eye argument, I can't help but find it odd, considering the icons are now roughly the size of the text size on the forums (at least for me, may differ for other people) so if the icons are too small to make out, shouldn't that be the same case for the text?
It's just that I personally find that the images should be at ~1.5 times their current size.
The staff and egg ranks have the perfect size in my opinion.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby Marina » Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:48 am

DerEric wrote:
Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:26 am
It's just that I personally find that the images should be at ~1.5 times their current size.
The staff and egg ranks have the perfect size in my opinion.
Those are 2x2p though.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby Cedur » Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:21 am

chuckster's suggestion sounds perfect if it's implementable.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby aero » Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:17 pm

I got a PM detailing how a toggle for ranks would work similar to how the existing toggles for avatars and signatures. That could be implemented in a way to change rank sets, but I can't guarantee its implementation yet.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby The Great Yoshi » Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:39 pm

Aero beat me to it again, but yeah, it's not particularly hard to make a toggle button. It does involve editing the theme templates though, which only the site owner or people with ftp access can do.

Are you guys talking about keeping the old animated ranks or just making the new static ones bigger? Because I might have thought of another way to do the latter after I sent the PM.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby Luna » Wed Jan 20, 2021 5:34 am

The Great Yoshi wrote:
Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:39 pm
Aero beat me to it again, but yeah, it's not particularly hard to make a toggle button. It does involve editing the theme templates though, which only the site owner or people with ftp access can do.

Are you guys talking about keeping the old animated ranks or just making the new static ones bigger? Because I might have thought of another way to do the latter after I sent the PM.
I'm mostly talking about making the static ranks bigger (including the head only Bowser)

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Re: New Ranks

Postby Emral » Wed Jan 20, 2021 5:55 am

If you add a size toggle, can you also add a visibility toggle? Given the option I would use that over whatever the default ends up becoming.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby ben » Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:02 pm

I also liked the size of the icon ranking before the relaunch.

Of course, the SMBX team decides about the size of these icons.

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Re: New Ranks

Postby Cedur » Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:13 am

Enjl wrote:
Wed Jan 20, 2021 5:55 am
If you add a size toggle, can you also add a visibility toggle? Given the option I would use that over whatever the default ends up becoming.

yeah we should do that as well so the discussion of "are ranks pointless" finally ends in a good way


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