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  ChainsawXIV

  in Tags are Broken January 2016

  Heh. Working on other people's code is such a pain. I don't doubt it. I just asked Andrew about it, and he's already on it.
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  ChainsawXIV

  in FEEDBACK - Forum upgrades? January 2016

  Don't know about the tags issue, but the email thing is related to the mass mail about the outage, as I understand it. I guess emailing every OP user ever, twice, hit the cap on emails, and it hasn't reset yet. I gather that will correct itself in t…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Server maintenance / OP going offline...for a bit. January 2016

  If I understand the process with the maps correctly, that limitation may be less about the storage space and more about the server processing required to convert the map into the proper setup for the google maps system. Not sure though.
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  ChainsawXIV

  in FEEDBACK - Forum upgrades? January 2016

  All those would be useful plugins I think. As I recall, there are also options available for WYSIWYG editing, which might make the forums a little more approachable for less technical folks and improve participation. I agree with Killervp that th…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in FEEDBACK - Textile help January 2016

  The reason target="_blank" doesn't work on the wiki is because the wiki has strict limitations on what parameters an HTML tag may contain. If you inspect the code of your link when it's rendered in the browser, you'll actually see that the server ha…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in DST Newb. Halp! December 2015

  Heh, it used to be a drop down, but there are a butt load of game systems so it was kind of unwieldy. I expect that's why they changed it. Usually though it will suggest options from the supported list as you type - if that's not working now for you…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in DST Newb. Halp! December 2015

  To use an existing DST, you don't need to work with any code. In your campaign settings, set your campaign to the appropriate system. Having done that, when you edit a character page there will be a drop down menu at the top with options for any tem…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Spoiler-style hidden box text November 2015

  You'd need to build a custom sheet to do this properly, as Kallak suggests. There are some simple CSS tricks that you can use as a work-around for this kind of thing, but most of them don't work in this context for one reason or another. Your …
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  ChainsawXIV

  in time function error November 2015

  Alex posted about this "on the blog":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/update-on-issues-nov-9/, since apparently he's not able to post here at the moment. Not a fix, obviously, but at least they're aware of the issue.
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Formatting Wiki Page w/Columns November 2015 edited November 2015

  For columns that work themselves out (where you don't have to manually place the column break), you'll want the "css column properties":http://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_multiple_columns.asp. Unfortunately, there are still some layout issues with th…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Remove the dragon head, line, and white campaign name November 2015

  For anyone else who happens along, a great way to approach this type of question is to right click on the element in your browser, and choose the inspect option (or your browser's equivalent). In all modern browsers this will bring up a screen where…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in What's your geek cred? September 2015 edited September 2015

  If you want to spray paint your styrofoam work, you can usually make it work by starting with a very thorough coat of acrylic primer from the hardware store (though you're better off with a paint sprayer or airbrush if you can get your hands on one)…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in GURPS Dynamic Character Sheet September 2015

  To use any dynamic character sheet, set your campaign to the corresponding game system, create a new character, and select the sheet you want from the drop-down near the top of the page.
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Width percentage issue in CSS September 2015

  Happy to help. As a note, you may want to use an HTML image tag directly, rather than a textile image reference to insert your spacer image - using textile automatically gives the tag a title value the same as the file name, which is why you seed…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Width percentage issue in CSS August 2015 edited August 2015

  This is actually a tricky one to solve, because keeping things height-width proportional with dynamic sizing is something CSS is kind of terrible at in general. That said, there's a pretty easy way to make this work for you and give you full scaling…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Width percentage issue in CSS August 2015

  Without seeing this in the context of the page where it's used, it's tough to guess what the problem is. If you can link to a page where you're trying to use this, that would make it much easier to figure out for you. Particularly, it's important wh…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in [Announcement] Obsidian Portal - management team update (Aug 2015) August 2015

  Looks like I'm a couple of days late the party here, but I'll just put in that KillerVP captured my reaction here pretty well. I've got great respect for Jerry and all the old guard here, and I'm sad to see them go, but I'm happy to see all the rene…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in GURPS Dynamic Character Sheet August 2015

  Updates have been approved (for whatever reason, I didn't get the usual email about the submission...).
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Mouseover or text highlight July 2015 edited July 2015

  This is a snap to do by using the :hover selector in your campaign's CSS. If you've got a big block of links, the easiest way is to create a container _span_ tag to put your links in, give it a class, and then add the appropriate selectors to you…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Posting new dynamic character sheet, question June 2015

  The ideal course of action is to put it in the system, but not submit it until you're reasonably sure it works. It won't be usable by your group, but as its author, you'll be able to take it for a test drive just as if it were a fully fledged sheet.…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in What's your geek cred? June 2015

  Cheers! (No, really. Cheers. Gaming with a tasty beverage is wonderful...)
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  ChainsawXIV

  in What's your geek cred? June 2015

  Sure, why not... - I'm 36 years old, and have been playing pen and paper RPGs since the 4th grade. - I've run dozens of games and played in dozens more, from one-shots to campaigns in many systems. - My longest run as a player is 6 years an…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Chose DST for campaign June 2015

  The other three are unfinished projects that people started but never completed or submitted for use. Sorry there's not one that fits your needs better. :(
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Chrome vs Firefox issue April 2015

  The forums don't respect HTML. To get a code block you need to use _bc._ (with a space after) at the start of the first line of your block. The block will end at the first blank line.
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Chrome vs Firefox issue April 2015 edited April 2015

  Doing a little bit of reading, _content_ was originally supposed to be used only with :before and :after selectors, and support for using it in a normal class like that is a CSS3 feature that's not yet supported in Firefox. It's not ideal in terms o…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Animated SVG Images April 2015

  Looking good! Multiple layers moving at different speeds can be a great way to produce a sense of depth through parallax. In the first image above, for example, there are three moving layers - clouds in the background moving left to right, and th…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Animated SVG Images April 2015

  Yeah, masking takes a little getting used to. As you can see from my examples above, whether you go black and white or shades of gray depends on the effect you're going for. Basically what you're painting there is how transparent you want the image …
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Animated SVG Images April 2015 edited April 2015

  Nice! One tip I'll offer is that you've got a little timing glitch that's easy to fix - you'll notice that every 90s the scrolling of your clouds resets visibly. If you make the scrolling distance in the animate tag equal to the width of the clou…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Animated SVG Images April 2015 edited April 2015

  My bad - I should have said. To use this, you need to put all that code into a file with a .svg extension, and then use that file as an image - in an img tag or as a background image for example. And to do that you'll need to host the image file som…
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  ChainsawXIV

  in Animated SVG Images April 2015 edited April 2015

  Thanks guys. :) Incidentally, you can also use custom CSS to override your campaign banner to an SVG, which I've also done for the new campaign. Now I'm tempted to do the background image as well... but at some point it's just too much.