Sharûne Item "Database" - Current News

December 19th, 2011 - Item Converter Update / Relaxation of Parenting Pages and Maintaining Raw Color Codes

I just finished updating the item to wiki converter to be more streamlined for ease of use, there is now much less copy/pasting and clicking of links after conversion than there was before. Plug in the mob name, type, and item lore info with color codes, then convert and paste the converted codes into the new page and save. Also, when doing multiple items for the same mob, there is no need to alter their input fields.

I've decided that page creation is easy enough now that raw color codes aren't necessary to maintain until someone has the time to go through converting all of them and double checking to make sure they are all there. This means that if the color codes, mob name and a minute of your time are available, simply create the page and call it good. If you don't have the time, wait until you do, or make sure someone else can get the information, as it would probably take longer now to find where the color code even goes.

This brings me to the relaxation of parenting pages I mentioned. This is a side effect of a nice module I found the other day, ListPages, which can be used for sorting pages by all sorts of criteria, but the one I'm most interested in is tags. This means it is much easier to dynamically create equipment lists, simply from the tags that have been assigned to them. I'll give you two examples below, the first for all level 18 equipment that is worn on hands, and let's restrict it to chain armor. The second example will be all equipment carried by a salesman dressed in red from Dawn's Bridge. Oh right, the parenting pages, that was done so you could find the mob an item belonged to, therein finding it's location, tagging during page creation will be easier than going into the submenus to update parents, and again, dynamically created equipment lists.

Example 1

Object 'a pair of chainmail gauntlets', Item type: ARMOR
Item is 1: NOBITS
Item is 2: NOBITS
Value: 100, Item Level: 18
Racial size: all sizes
ARMOR: [108] chain
Can affect you as :
Affects: STR By 18
Affects: AGI By 9
Affects: DAM By 9


Example 2

Object 'a piece of sweet maple sugar candy', Item type: FOOD
Wear location: TAKE HOLD (1h)
Item is 1: NOBITS
Item is 2: ALL_RESET_LOAD
Value: 100, Item Level: 1
Racial size: all sizes


Object 'a snowglobe', Item type: OTHER
Wear location: TAKE HOLD (1h)
Item is 1: NOBITS
Item is 2: NOBITS
Value: 100, Item Level: 1
Racial size: all sizes


Object 'a festive hat with a bell', Item type: ARMOR
Wear location: TAKE HEAD
Item is 1: NOBITS
Item is 2: NOBITS
Value: 100, Item Level: 5
Racial size: all sizes
ARMOR: [15 ] cloth


I'll be extending the rewards on the sidebar to simply updating the tags of pages to include the boss/quest/shop tags along with mob name, or updating old lore info to include the Wear location: line. Just try to keep track of what you update and let me know.

~Ceradel

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