The Vault and Me

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

                <the wheel spins...>

'Bout time I posted a few things, I think.  Don't worry, nothing too tedious. <he hopes>

First, I'd like to officially welcome Vanya Mia to the Vault team. She's come on board to back me up with news and project admin (checking the "complete" box :-P ). If you need something and can't reach me, try PMing her. <she's a nicer person, too>
Hush.

The other thing I wanted to bring up was that the Hall of Fame tools on the Vault are, er... <fubar>
Yes. Definitely fouled up. So, if you come across (or own) a project that *should* be HoF and isn't, PM us with a link so we can fix it.

Which brings me to the third point. If you see something just *annoying* on the Vault, like the bioware downloads that now link to their front-page advertising... let us know. We don't bite <*she* doesn't>
Ok, enough, bird. <hardly>

And, while I'm not trying to spend *all* my time fixing things, I am, when I find them and have a moment, fixing things. Things that annoy *me* like the multi-meg hak uploaded as... a hak. No compression. Ouch? Or the portrait pack uploaded from some other project as an anonymous name (had to hex edit it just to find out it was a .7z file) 280+ megs...

So if you find loose gremlins running around, let us know. I'm starting to be able to tell them apart, now :-/

<...the door opens>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Rolo one thing that bugs me are the number modules that are uploaded without being compressed. The reason why this bugs me is that I often end up having to download them twice because the .mod extension is also used by some kind of audio file and media player will try to play them if you just click on the link. Which can be a total pain.

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

               <trying to look...>

Well, when you find them, write down the project number (in the url) and email me a list. That's exactly the kind of thing I want to massage, time permitting.

<...like a stricter, less-kind santa claus>
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 19 novembre 2012 - 04:28 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Lightfoot8]

               

Tarot Redhand wrote...

Rolo one thing that bugs me are the number modules that are uploaded without being compressed. The reason why this bugs me is that I often end up having to download them twice because the .mod extension is also used by some kind of audio file and media player will try to play them if you just click on the link. Which can be a total pain.

TR

Simple solution from the users end. 

Goto your module's folder and right click on one of your modules and select the 'Open With...' -> 'Choose Program'  option.

'Browse...'  To the toolset.exe  or nwMain.exe, Select it to open the file. 
Make sure the "Always use this program to open this kind of file." option is checked.\\
Click ok.   

The file extention will now be  associated with the porgram you selected, and will no longer try to run as a movie.  

You will also now have the benifit of being able to open modules with the toolset by simply double clicking on the module.      

EDIT:  You can also remove the association with it being a MPEGVideo with msconfig, RegEdit or at the CommandLine(CMD).   I just find it simpler to do it the way I gave above.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Lightfoot8, 29 octobre 2012 - 08:43 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_OldTimeRadio]

               Thank you VM for stepping up to help and thank you Rolo for continuing to herd all the data cats for us!

'>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_-Paganini-]

               You rock Rolo!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

               <looking as bright as basalt...>

*enraptured by the Metallica S&M version of "Ecstasy of Gold"*
Amazing what a little help from friends (like the entire San Francisco Symphony) can do =)

<...and sharp as a marble>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               I can't let you get away with that Rolo, here's a couple of tracks - one you probably no and one you probably don't.

The first is either a friend or a relation of the second. The second is originally from 1972, but you can buy a car via guitar hero 2.

First  - you prably won't know this one.

Second - you may know this (just not this video).

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

               <as usual, the wizard is...>

On the first: Cool :-)

On the second:


<...not quite getting it>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Try this one them Rolo, Boring vid but then you're not after a ford car that you can dive through! 

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

               <shakes his head sadly...>

Ditto. Salright. You'll just have to let me get away with it ;-)

<...and shrugs>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_henesua]

                How about this, one of my nspirations for Arnheim.