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Almost done.
When creating a new avatar (and cropping a larger image) just select the character from the list and click the checkbox named "This is the character portrait ". The new avatar (read: small image picturing the face of a character) will become the official portrait.

When editing an already uploaded image (and that image is cropped as avatar), you can click on "character avatar" found near the list of character(s) assigned to the image, to make it the official character portrait.

The characters pages are becoming more interesting now. :-)

note:I've done a lot of editings in many pages to handle all this, despite I'm testing it a lot, if you note something strange or missing, please report.

Yay for progress! \o/

Oh, BTW, maybe switch the order of the character type and gender? It makes more sense to have "female beast" than "beast female". For some other types this works either way, but it's more often correct when the gender appears first. The unknown type is an exception to this, it works best if gender comes second, but either way it makes little sense with gender present.

Edit: There should be a little more spacing between the characters and the view all link. It kinda gets lost in the list now.

I know, there are problems when cropping large images...

Something bad happens when a character has a very long name (or lots of AKAs), see European Comic characters - Gaston Lagaffe.

Plus, when you delete an avatar image from a game, if the avatar is set as "character protrait", the relation seems to be kept (see Obelix, European Comic again - I deleted the avatar because of the "cropping large images" bug).


By the way, the characters page looks great now that characters have their own portrait. Very good improvement again :)

-EDIT- : Well, I did not see the "remove character avatar"... I just removed a "character avatar" as I made a mistake on characters association (Kyle instead of Kenny - South Park characters), but now I can't set Kenny's avatar as a portrait (nothing happens when I click on "character avatar" - see Edit images - edit Kenny).

I can confirm this. Looking at the source, the problem seems to be the double quote in Kenny's name. So htmlspecialchars() function to use here again.

Fixed the "too long name" issue, the problem with name containing quotes when unlinking avatars, and Kenny.

I find difficult to fix Obelix as I should look all the Asterix games to find the correct image.
I should make this easier.

edit: We just added the Cammy avatar almost at the same moment, from the same image. Just removed mine. :-)

Maybe this could be a good think to add a facultative sub-class to characters. Not really important for humans or robots, but for Beast / animal (Lion, Dragon, etc...), Monster (Goblin, etc...), Undead (Zombi, etc...) and especially Other (Fairy, or game-specifics as Moogle, etc...). This sub-class would not be selected through a drop-down box, as it is for class, but through a text box, allowing users to add whatever.

Principally useful for "Others", so Tinker Bell (for example) would be "female fairy", not juste "female".

BTW, are Dragons beasts or monsters (or both) ?

-edit- : For Obelix, it's this game.

If we just could add tags to characters... :)

I think it depends on the world. Monsters in most cases, I think. E.g. in Ashan they belong to Other because they're Gods (at least the real dragons are, the Pao Kai aren't dragons :P - the dragons in HoMMV belong to monster group, though). Other or Monster in D&D games. They tend to be "magical" creatures and generally otherwise "unnatural" so beast is rarely the correct choice.

Or we could add Fae (faeries, some more traditional elves, traditional goblins), Elemental, God, and few others to complement what we have.

And human was supposed to be renamed to humanoid, so it should fit well with Goblins and the like, even if it isn't particularly descriptive. But we can't search for character types anyway, so I don't see much use for this (yet!)

Some avatars aren't showing in the X-Men character list. Rogue does have an avatar for one (I tried re-adding it to no avail).
Also the character pages are missing images, like Emma Frost doesn't appear to have any but she does have them (at least if you look in the games)

Edit: Similarly Bloom is missing the avatar in Winx club even though I just added it.

Fae has a blurry definition as it has been used historicly to refer to, or an alternate name or type of, amazons, angels, banshee, beings in purgatory, brownie, changelings, daemons, demons, elfs, elves, ethereal creatures, fallen angels, faeries, ghosts, giants, gnomes, goblins, hobgoblins, nymphs, ogres, pixies, pygmies, satyrs, sprites, will o' the wisp, an generically ans any fantasy or magical creature. This may be the definition you had in mind?

We don't have much anything better for any of those, except ghosts/banshees and demons which are obviously ndead and demons. I've never heard of [fallen] angels being categorized as Fae, but we have nothing better than "Other" for them either. Also the "any fantasy or magical creature" doesn't work particularly well. Most traditional fantasy creatures are Fae, but other than that it's case specific.

So is God. Popularly Gods are seen as omnipotent, all-seeing and all-knowing immortal entities, but if you look in non-Christian cultures, you'll see it varies much more greatly. D&D multiverse has a nice concept of Godhood since there it's more transient in some cases (Astral Plane being their graveyard and such).

Adding avatars
I tried to add lots of avatars for King of Fighters games, but I don't know if it's the good way... (I just added four of them for now)

I screenshot 32 times the character selection screen to have portraits of every character, but I have to add the image, avatar-crop it, then delete the image (as I think it's useless to have 32 character selection screenshots for the game)... That does not bother me much, but I just wanted to know if it's not a problem, as the avatar is taken from an image which will not be seen in the game's pictures gallery, and more, to tell you not to worry if you see on the what's up page :



Also to ask you if there's a better way to do this but I think there is not.

re: Adding avatars

Not really. I'd prefer the avatars were from character art (or game box art if they have good quality pics in them of the character), but that's difficult to find for some games. But tends to be the only way you can get decent quality pics (without pixel doubling) of some characters from older games.

You could reduce the number of image deletes by creating a collage which you upload and create avatars from, but that's probably too much work.

Agree. But avatars can be replaced later by better ones if needed.

Even if taken from screenshots, those KOF avatars are good quality and not pixelated, so it's not a problem to me.

No there isn't (beside the Sanguine idea, but it would be more work)

I've just added a popularity index beside every character (based on unique pageviews).

There isn't a way of uploading "pre-made" avatars currently, BTW, which would be the "better" way. The only thing this would need is that the upload script detects the image size and either rejects it if it isn't what was expected (48x48) or automatically resizes it to correct size (only shrinking, stretching is bad idea).