(07-10-2009, 04:44 PM)Cooltrainer♂ Tyvon Wrote:

(07-10-2009, 02:10 PM)TheLoreMaster01 Wrote: Yes, one suggestion...add a how to use guide, because I'm completely new and have no clue on how to get the sprites from the website to my computer!

How did you even find out how to sign up to a message board if you don't know how to save a file?

I'm new to game making and sprites so don't be a jerk.T_T

It's a really basic function that isn't even specific to sprites, though! Right click, Save As.

It's somewhat basic knowledge . In this day and age is hard to see somebody who don't knows about having your cursor over the image you like, right click and pick "Save As..."

My mum might not know. But she's only been using a computer actively for the last few months because of Uni.

Even then, she'd have the knowledge to go 'File > Save Page As...' or right-click to try and copy-paste it (which would show 'Save Image As...').

Here's a suggestion that would be real useful for some: splitting the site into Sprites, Backgrounds etc.. If I'm looking for a background that might fit a project, it takes even more time to find anything that has more than just say one sprite sheet ripped for it. This leads to clicking tons of games and takes forever, especially as backgrounds don't seem to get as much attention as sprites.

It would make finding backgrounds in particular easier anyway

(07-11-2009, 09:03 PM)arrogantfrenchsonic Wrote: Here's a suggestion that would be real useful for some: splitting the site into Sprites, Backgrounds etc.. If I'm looking for a background that might fit a project, it takes even more time to find anything that has more than just say one sprite sheet ripped for it. This leads to clicking tons of games and takes forever, especially as backgrounds don't seem to get as much attention as sprites.

It would make finding backgrounds in particular easier anyway

I don't think it's really necessary. At the front page there is a "search" box, just uncheck the "game" and check the "sheet" box, then you can write "Back", "Background", "Stage", "Level", "tiles" or stuff like that to search

Hmm, how often does the search database update? Is it instantaneously? for instance, do a search under "sheets" for Ryu. Not one sheet is of the character from Street Fighter. This seems a bit strange to me. Maybe there's some kind of bug in the search? Maybe I'm just an idiot?

(07-13-2009, 04:08 PM)Tonberry2k Wrote: Hmm, how often does the search database update? Is it instantaneously? for instance, do a search under "sheets" for Ryu. Not one sheet is of the character from Street Fighter. This seems a bit strange to me. Maybe there's some kind of bug in the search? Maybe I'm just an idiot?

I do find that strange myself, it also made my wonder how the website primarily functions. If I had to guess, it looks like some parts are PHP driven and others are solid HTML, seems a tad unusual to me, but then again I'm no professional webdesigner.

Some suggestions for the search function:
(also probably some errors, but I did not feel like making two posts, and the line may be thin)

- Do not reset the checkboxes. It's annoying when you have to remind yourself every time to change the checkboxes if your query has a typo or if you want to try something (slightly) different.

- Do not use an implicit wildcard at the end of a word. Now, entering [man] as the same as entering [man*] (or ['man*']), while I expected the results I get when entering ['man']. (which are also incomplete, as none are shown and games like 'Mega Man' should be there =/)

- Do not reset the search box when no results are found. It usually means you made a typo, and now you have the chance to make the same typo again.

- Also refill the search box when double quotes ("s) are used.

- Create a manual (or list of more complex examples) for what type of input results in what kind of search. ie: Only by trial and error I figured out a + in front of a word makes it mandatory. (and by an educated guess that $ seems to match with the end of a word) (^ does not seem to do anything, as all matches are always made from the start anyway)

(07-13-2009, 06:37 PM)Sky_Blue_Wiggler Wrote: Could you make it so you get less results when you look up, for example, "mario" and "bros" instead of more?

Do you mean you want the query to only return results in which both words are found, opposed to results in which either word is found?

Should be easy to do, just alittle bit of javascript to format the user input into a query statement. I can think of how to do it off the top of my head, but I can't think of the exact code off the top of my head.

Edit: Looking at it, it does everything people want, it just doesn't tell anyone how to use it the way they want to. It also appears that you can't make a phrase mandatory, which can be replaced by making each individual word mandatory, except it won't search for the exact order of the words desired.

I also noticed an inconsistency: searching for [+Super +Mario] should should make both words mandatory (and as such, get fewer results than [Super +Mario] or [+Super Mario]) it returns Mario Pinball Land, which lacks the word Super. Not sure why.

I don't know whether I'm being helpful or annoying, but thats my minor observation based on the previous two suggestions.

(07-13-2009, 07:22 PM)Dark Ultima Wrote: I also noticed an inconsistency: searching for [+Super +Mario] should should make both words mandatory (and as such, get fewer results than [Super +Mario] or [+Super Mario]) it returns Mario Pinball Land, which lacks the word Super. Not sure why.

The full title used in the search is 'Mario Pinball Land / Super Mario Ball', as can be seen when clicking on the icon. ;]

(07-13-2009, 04:08 PM)Tonberry2k Wrote: Hmm, how often does the search database update? Is it instantaneously? for instance, do a search under "sheets" for Ryu. Not one sheet is of the character from Street Fighter. This seems a bit strange to me. Maybe there's some kind of bug in the search? Maybe I'm just an idiot?

This does not seem to be a problem with the refresh rate of the search system. It's just that words with three letters or less are not indexed. (try searching for any character with a three-letter name (Cid/Ken/Max/Mew/Ryu/etc), and you will not find him/her)

Oh, that's interesting. I guess that's to filter out things like "the"?

If that's the case, directly filtering out 'and' and 'the' would be more sensible...

In the custom Mario section, do you think we should fuse the Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings subsections together into one? I thought it would be easier that way, since they both fit in the same category.