Steel Rat's blog

My Gallery Stuff

Submitted by Steel Rat on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 9:15pm

For you old-timers here, you know that I add a lot of modern military items to the Objects section. I also add a lot of civilian vehicles, and ordinary modern objects. I deal less with fantasy objects, but did quite a few in the early days of the site. Most fantasy stuff is well-represented on other sites and here by other folks, so I feel less obliged to worry about that.

I've also done a fair number of character sets, mostly generic modern and fantasy stuff for map fillers (adding pedestrians to a map, barflys to your taverns, etc.)

In the last year or so my activities have been severely curtailed, due to having been laid off from my IT job, and having to get a real job where I'm not at a computer all day with lots of free time. Now I build and repair wheelchairs for a locally-owned company here in Western Washington State. It's a pretty cool job, actually, but the pay isn't the greatest.

Anyway, I do this stuff for fun, and get enjoyment out of seeing people use my stuff in their maps. So if you've used something of mine and it isn't posted here, POST IT! Just kidding, though I'd obviously like to see anything posted here, but am just more interested in what people come up with. Some very talented folks have taken different objects and created some truly awesome monstrosities.

Banner Ads

Submitted by Steel Rat on Wed, 07/26/2006 - 1:21pm

Hello All,

As you may have noticed, I've added banner ads to the content area. So if anyone out there has an interest in adding a banner, please make sure it is 468x60 in dimensions, and prefereably less than 50k in filesize. Attach it to a private message to me with pertinant link info, and I'll put it in.

Yet another new feature

Submitted by Steel Rat on Mon, 06/26/2006 - 2:29pm

 

I also added the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor, which allows Rich Text editing of topics, comments etc, though only to comments within the Drupal framework, not within the Gallery2 framework.

So if you're adding a comment to a gallery item, you won't see the TinyMCE editor.

The editor is easily disabled for those who may not care for it, by simply clicking the disable rich text link directly below the editor.

There are some neat features, such as:

 

  • Laughing Smilies
  • Tables
  • Search and replace
  • Date/Time insert
  • Image insert
  • Fullscreen mode
  • Much more...

 

New Features Added

Submitted by Steel Rat on Mon, 06/26/2006 - 12:27pm

Added a couple new features:

[list][*]BBCode - Let's you use BBCode for message formatting, like you can with most popular forum packages. See the Inpout Format item when composing a post for more information.
[*]Private Messaging - You can now send and receive provate messages with other registered site users. When viewing a comment, use the Write To Author link to send that person a private message. Otherwise, use the User List link on the left nav bar and select a user, you can then send them a private message.
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Usage field added

Submitted by Steel Rat on Sun, 06/25/2006 - 8:27am

I added a custom field for Gallery Items, called Usage. The field has two pre-set values: Personal Only, and Personal and Commercial. The Usage field is under the Custom Fields tab when editing your gallery item.

Those who have already uploaded images will need to go in and change the value to whichever is appropriate. If no value is selected, Personal and Commercial will be assumed.

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