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Post by _ on Sept 16, 2016 15:09:25 GMT
so a while ago (2 months ago), I found out that this site exists. And OBVIOUSLY the first thought that crossed my mind was- "I want to make a fan-adventure too". so after spending the next two months planing out everything (art,ideas,stuff involving words,etc,etc), i have decided exactly what i want to do. only problem is that I have no idea how you are supposed to do anything on this site, and google is definitely not helping me in this scenario. anyways I would appreciate it if someone would explain the basics of this site, but i know that thats too big of a request so i composed a list of stuff i would like (need) to know about. (* = high priority ~ = lower priority) 1- what does mirror/mirroring mean?* 2- any tips on making a suggestion based comic? 3- whats the difference between the cradle and adventures?* 4- does anyone know why it seems like every time i click on random adventure/cradle half of the comics are blank or missing a worrying amount of panels?* 5- is 1920X1080 a good resolution or should i change it?~ i have infinitely more questions to ask but these are the most important of them. and hopefully a godlike figure will come to this post and answer all these questions ... anyways, ill be waiting. (im not that great at English btw) (also im probably posting this in the wrong place)
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Post by Piono on Sept 16, 2016 16:04:38 GMT
1. Mirroring means you upload your fanventure in multiple places for more people to see and so that you have a backup in case one site goes odwn.
2. Plan ahead at least a little bit, and don't always take every suggestion. If one of the suggestions will ruin everything, go ahead and ignore it. As for having a plan, it doesn't necessarily need to be detailed, but you need to know somewhat of what's going to happen regardless of what actions the suggestions take, although I would also recommend changing that plan if the suggestions send you far enough off track.
3. The Cradle is where new adventures go. An adventure can only leave the Cradle once it has a certain number of updates (basically, it's shown that whoever is updating it will actually KEEP updating it.)
4. Umm... on the official mspfa site? Something about the code really screws with the image hosting sites people use, usually refreshing once or twice fixes it, and if it isn't, it might be that the images are no longer there to be found, which is entirely possible for at least some of them.
5. That seems a bit big for images, you can do it at that size if you want, but it will probably mess with some people.
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Post by _ on Sept 16, 2016 16:18:41 GMT
wow, thanks for answering so quickly!
about number five though, do you think 1280x720 will work better?
i already made the introduction panel so i want to know if i need to redraw it.
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Post by Piono on Sept 16, 2016 16:32:40 GMT
I actually just remembered the mspfa automatically resizes images unless you screw with the CSS for the page, and as I've sadly never uploaded an adventure there, I do not know what size it prefers, somebody else will have to answer that.
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Post by Blaperile on Sept 16, 2016 17:25:39 GMT
pionoplayer already did a great explanation there, there's just a few things I want to add: The Cradle's the place where you can create your Fan Adventure! Just go over here, click the "Create thread" button (on the upper right) and you're ready to go! Once your adventure has had 10 decent updates, that show you have put enough effort in your adventure and actually want to keep working on it, you can make a post in this thread, to ask for your Fan Adventure to be moved from the Cradle to the main Forum Adventures section, which is over here. As pionoplayer mentioned, mirroring means uploading your adventure elsewhere as well, as a sort of backup in case something happens to the forums. Which is basically what happened to the old MSPA Forums, which are gone and now people have lost access to their adventures unless they mirrored them. Mspfanventures is the best place I personally know of for mirroring purposes, it emulates the MSPA feel very well. In case you have any questions about that particular site, its creator has an official thread over here. As for resolution, if you want to resemble MSPA's panels, most of those have a 650x450 resolution. 650x650 is also pretty common, and of course there are some other variations on it, though almost all of them are 650 pixels in width. Feel free to use any resolution you like, but like pionoplayer said, having too big of a resolution might not be that pleasant for some readers (likewise for too small of a resolution), but the decision is up to you. In any case, good luck on your adventure and feel free to ask more questions if something's still unclear!
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Post by _ on Sept 16, 2016 18:44:08 GMT
pionoplayer already did a great explanation there, there's just a few things I want to add: The Cradle's the place where you can create your Fan Adventure! Just go over here, click the "Create thread" button (on the upper right) and you're ready to go! Once your adventure has had 10 decent updates, that show you have put enough effort in your adventure and actually want to keep working on it, you can make a post in this thread, to ask for your Fan Adventure to be moved from the Cradle to the main Forum Adventures section, which is over here. As pionoplayer mentioned, mirroring means uploading your adventure elsewhere as well, as a sort of backup in case something happens to the forums. Which is basically what happened to the old MSPA Forums, which are gone and now people have lost access to their adventures unless they mirrored them. Mspfanventures is the best place I personally know of for mirroring purposes, it emulates the MSPA feel very well. In case you have any questions about that particular site, its creator has an official thread over here. As for resolution, if you want to resemble MSPA's panels, most of those have a 650x450 resolution. 650x650 is also pretty common, and of course there are some other variations on it, though almost all of them are 650 pixels in width. Feel free to use any resolution you like, but like pionoplayer said, having too big of a resolution might not be that pleasant for some readers (likewise for too small of a resolution), but the decision is up to you. In any case, good luck on your adventure and feel free to ask more questions if something's still unclear! oh, didint expect to see you post here. anyways i got my stuff ready, and im planing to start sometime tomorow. lets hope i wont mess it up... also i still feel like using 1280X720 due to me going crazy when i dont have alot of space.
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Post by Sharkalien on Sept 16, 2016 22:11:43 GMT
oh, didint expect to see you post here. anyways i got my stuff ready, and im planing to start sometime tomorow. lets hope i wont mess it up... also i still feel like using 1280X720 due to me going crazy when i dont have alot of space. You could always scale down your panels after making them, like maybe around 50%
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Post by _ on Sept 17, 2016 11:15:30 GMT
ok.. its up now and it seems like everything is working...
hopefuly i wont screw this up.
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