Charas2 Work in Progress

[GhostClown]

Yeah, I can't seem to get into anything either..
One question; Will this Genterator be faster or slower than the old?

[VahnGrave]

I'm hoping faster dude. And it would be cool if it would produce full character sheets.

[Alex]

About how fast it may be, i still don't know.
It's a test, and the itention is to create a "global generator", so speed optimization will came at the end (on database side).

And about testing it while Charas is down (btw, great that someone still remember the alex.ombra.net thing!), the new gen cannot be used with main Charas down, due to absolute link names....

EDIT:
With the temp solution i've written in homepage too, the new gen is temporary available here:
http://alex.ombra.net/charas/charas2/

[Alex]

Back with some test news!
Again on http://charas-project.net/charas2/

I inserted 2 new sets in test:
Overweight Torso (by Gary)
Isometric (by The Brave)

The first one was an old thing now came in reality.
The isometric thing is an experiment (the face is buggy), but i feel it may be REEEEEALY interesting, expecially for other game engines that may create isometric views

[Osmose]

The fat one looks like it's good, no problems there. But the Isometric one needs work. The body is wierd, and the head and hair don't line up properly. But the concept of making isometric charasets is awesome. This could really help with people using us for systems like RPG Toolkit 3.

Also, wwhen you select a new body part or move to a different section, the parts don't go away. I don't know if that was on purpose or not, but it's kinda annoying when you want to add something else and take away the original.

So I'm assuming there will be other sections in the other generators being added too? *cough*

[Araloth]

i think that is bcuz you may want a body from one set, and a hair from an other. but still i gree it should.

[GaryCXJk]

Originally posted by Osmose
The fat one looks like it's good, no problems there.

The only problem I see is the fact that it doesn't have all 89 resources. Oh well, that means just manually uploading.

Oh, and special thanks to RUGORROHURTON for the naked body resource.

EDIT: I HAD A GREAT IDEA! A LIST OF PENDING RESOURCES!

But then again, it's not that great.

EDIT2: I think the Share your Resources thingy is kind of anoying. When trying to share multiple resources, it returns you to the delete sprite thing. It should return you to the share thing, since you choose to share your resources.

[GhostClown]

No, no. That pending resource idea may be kind of cool.

[Alex]

I'm not dead yet!!!
I'm going on with the new gen, and in these days i added some new cool things.

Main spots are:

- Flash Preview with selectable zoom and animation speed
- gz exporter finally working WELL
- custom resourcing upgraded
- resource sharing upgraded (but i still have something to do, here)
- Admin panel to easily test/accept/refuse/delete shared resources

But you have to consider that i plan to create a global generator here, so there are some new features we will not use in Charas but possible with the engine:

- anonymous custom resources (without need of being registered somewhere)
- can work in RPG or Truecolor images
- a full admin panel to easily add/edit/etc every aspect of the generator
- It's now possible to "write" within the image custom texts!!!
- You may choose truetype fonts for custom texts
- You may choose fontwidth and color for custom texts
- You may choose rotation angle for custom texts

And many other little thing.

So: i still don't know WHEN, but the upgrade to the new system is surely near!
For who'd like to test it:
http://charas-project.net/charas2/

[WarxePB]

Well, it was a little slow when it was loading, and a few of the images were broken, but it looks awesome thus far. That Flash preview is a good idea.

So, how about that "Report a bad resource" link? I do realize that you have the new Admin panel to delete resources, but it would still be a good idea, because you won't be able to catch all of them.

EDIT:

Alex
Tip: if you have troubles with IE, try the gzipped PNG

That's going to save some newbs from posting threads about "My Charas resource does not work!!". Good idea

[Alex]

Originally posted by Warxe_PhoenixBlade
Well, it was a little slow when it was loading, and a few of the images were broken, but it looks awesome thus far. That Flash preview is a good idea.

I still have to optimize the DB loading thing.
It's using binary data from the DB now, insted of real image files.
But the procedure that handles them is a module, so it will be easy to fix it in the future.

Originally posted by Warxe_PhoenixBlade
So, how about that "Report a bad resource" link? I do realize that you have the new Admin panel to delete resources, but it would still be a good idea, because you won't be able to catch all of them.

All the ideas said in this thread are still valid.
I will implement the "Report a bad resource" shortly

[Alex]

BTW: I'm not sure (it reallly depends on how busy the server is), but i made a little modification about speed.
Warxe, do you feel it a bit faster, now?

[WarxePB]

Yes, it is running much faster now.

[AsakuraHao2004]

Wow, charas2 is really coming along nicely. I really like the flash preview thing. I wouldnt be able to tell you about speed because I have bad computer anyways, everythings slow,lol!

[blaze_shinigami]

It's really fast on my cpu.  but I have nothing to compare it to. I like the flash too.