User talk:StarfishCostume

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Gothemasticator 16:25, March 29, 2010 (UTC)

Dog Bowls
Dunno. But it's probably fine. Nitty Tok. 22:46, February 3, 2010 (UTC)

Dart Gun, "whilst"
As per policy, we favor American usage, since that is the language used in the game.--Gothemasticator 08:54, February 7, 2010 (UTC)

Images
The picture on John Bishop should be a good example of what we want. That size, all cropped, etc. All characters need a picture like that unless they're talking heads, which are already done. If there is only a sprite, it must be changed to the backgroud-including picture. Nitty Tok. 18:23, February 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, it doesn't have to be changed, but it's nice if it is. Sprites are generally OK as well. Ausir(talk) 13:57, February 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for uploading the character images. Just a little request: instead of adding your signature (which is not necessary since the file page preserves who uploaded the image and at which time anyway), could you add  (or   respectively) to the summary? Thanks in advance. -- Porter21 (talk) 17:52, February 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * There we go! Good work, Starfish. Nitty Tok. 19:10, February 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Aha, yeah, I'm fairly useless. Still learning.. StarfishCostume 19:12, February 14, 2010 (UTC)

Dialogue files
You can find all dialogue files in the game-specific subcategories of Category:Dialogue files. Usually they're named similar to the NPC they belong to, at least for FO1 (the FO2 ones have location or faction prefixes). For example, the one for Tolya is TOLYA.MSG, found in Category:Fallout dialogue files. -- Porter21 (talk) 15:07, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * It's HBETH.MSG. Ausir(talk) 22:17, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

Navigation Box
Sure. Generally navboxes can be made for any connected group of articles, and for the Khans it certainly makes sense. Regarding how to make one, the easiest way is to create a new template page (e.g. Template:Navbox Khans), copy the contents of an existing navbox (e.g. Navbox Enclave) and modify it as you need. Explanations on what the various parameters do can be found at the navbox template pages (e.g., which is the most widely used one). If you need help with that, let me know and I'll set up an empty navbox for you to fill out.

Regarding the guide, not sure. Directly copying contents of the guide to the wiki might get us into copyright troubles, but paraphrasing the contents and adding it to appropriate articles is certainly welcome. -- Porter21 (talk) 18:57, March 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've made a few small adjustments, otherwise it looks fine :) -- Porter21 (talk) 19:37, March 3, 2010 (UTC)

Welcome message has arrived
There you go, you big whiner! ;)

Welcome to The Vault! You're doing a great job here, and we hope you stay forever and make thousands and thousands of great edits!--Gothemasticator 16:25, March 29, 2010 (UTC)

Characters Project
Actually, all of those "not confirmed by canon" things should be removed. If the character was cut, then how could he/she be canon, after all. Also, most cut characters would have had very minor roles, and likely wouldn't be mentioned in canon anyway. Thanks! Ghouly89 (Talk)21:49, March 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Also, Regarding Images: if you didn't already know about it, there is a great mod out there that lets you play with the resolution of the games (Fallout and Fallout 2). In other words, you can increase the size of the screen, allowing you to see much more of the map. You can download it here. Fallout 2 has a separate one though, so get it here. P.S. don't make the resolution of the screen smaller than 640 x 480. That creates an application error. The same thing happens when you set a custom resolution. If you don't know what I'm talking about now, you will see once you have it downloaded. Yours Truly, Ghouly89 (Talk)22:29, March 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * You're right about the people that are hidden. But are you sure the mod you had was the one here? I haven't had any problems like a fuzzy screen with it. Ghouly89 (Talk)23:05, March 31, 2010 (UTC)

Avery
Ah, many characters that were put onto the wiki were only put there because their dialogue file was found in master.dat. Avery might just be a cut character, and if you can't find him, I'd bet on it. SO, just add the category to his page. There will be a lot of pages like that, I've already tried searching for a few and couldn't find them either. Thanks! Ghouly89 (Talk)20:57, April 2, 2010 (UTC)

Fallout 1 Pictures
Hey, I see the picture that you just uploaded to Anthony, and it's okay, but too bright. For all pictures like that, leave the brightness at the highest setting available in-game, don't make it any brighter in photoshop.


 * Also, to actually make the picture the size you want, when editing the page, the (pixel) line should look like:  |px=        200px . I keep finding little things like this on pages and it's a tedious job to fix them all. Thanks, Ghouly89 (Talk)22:24, April 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't mean actually change it to 200 pixels, just to add the px to the end of the line. Otherwise, it thinks 150 is the picture description. Oh, and I guess I'll change the size of most of the pictures now then/ Ghouly89 (Talk)22:53, April 2, 2010 (UTC)

Cindy
That inventory is complete bullshit.

How can she possibly have bottle caps?! Nitty Tok. 20:37, April 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * So where'd you get the info from? Nitty Tok. 20:43, April 3, 2010 (UTC)

Meet me halfway
Okay, some of your recent uploades of pictures for Fallout characters are way too bright. I know some of the ones I upload could be a little brighter, so you're not the only one at fault here. So, I will upload another character picture pretty soon here that both of us should use in the future for a brightness model. Is that okay with you? Ghouly89 (Talk)20:38, April 10, 2010 (UTC)

removed broken image link vs.

BTW, they are the same character, just different places. So, the one on the left is yours, and the right one mine. I did change the brightness some, but not too much, to keep the remeblance to the actual game play image.

Unless you or maybe Nitty have an objection to this (which I will ask him), then the right one should be the appropriate brightness. Ghouly89 (Talk)23:25, April 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, of course your pictures are good location wise! It's just the brightness is too much. From now on, do you think you could keep it a little lower? Other than that, you are being a big help with the pictures, I thought I was gonna have to take most of them myself XD Ghouly89 (Talk)09:33, April 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * And if I offended you, that is the last thing I meant to do. I'm not going to completely change all your pictures, just save a copy, and change the brightness. I was MUCH worse about pictures when I joined the Vault. I'm sorry for my comment on Nitty's page, so please don't take it personally. Ghouly89 (Talk)09:53, April 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok. Just making sure I didn't. Anyway, do you use photoshop to edit your pictures? Ghouly89 (Talk)20:55, April 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah. Wait, then how is the picture so bright to start with? The game itself doesn't go that high. Ghouly89 (Talk)21:45, April 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * You tell me, it's at the brightest in-game settings. However, it may have something to do with the resolution patch I mentioned. StarfishCostume 10:05, April 13, 2010 (UTC)

Picture brightness
That's really wierd that your in-game brightness is so high. Hmm. Well, currently, I just use a free trial version of Photoshop CS4 to crop images and change the brightness, and thats about it. Ghouly89 (Talk)04:17, April 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry to hear that. Believe me, I have had to do that numerous times as well, so I'm not gonna fuck with my game anymore with any mods or anything. Ghouly89 (Talk)19:37, April 18, 2010 (UTC)

Welcome Back!
Good to see you editing at the wiki! It's been a little while since I remember you here. I hope you stick around for a little while longer, and continue to make more great edits. Cheers -- Ghouly89 (Talk)19:04, June 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Honestly, the project is going very slowly, in fact, its just barely crawling. And I think it will continue to until I get back from my vacation, which I leave for tomorrow. Yeah, I think if you started helping again on the project, there would only be me and you working as consistent members :/ It just doesn't get enough attention. Ghouly89 (Talk)04:20, June 5, 2010 (UTC)

Common House
I didn't. I redirected it to the Common house. Tezzla Cannon 17:41, September 5, 2010 (UTC)

Fallout 1 and 2 characters project
Hello. I am just leaving a quick note to say that we need to get this project finished. Its been very slow for a long time now, and so this is just a quick note to ask for you to continue your contributions. It would be really good if we could finish this project, and if everyone does that little bit more work, I'm sure it won't be long. So please don't forget about it :). Thanks,.