Difference between revisions of "Talk:Dean MacArthur"

Revision as of 06:28, 4 May 2010

Female/Male/Both Formatting

I broke each mission up a bit, just to make it more clear for people that wanted to find gender specific dialog. Basically, I just made each briefing, debriefing, and mission itself sub categories within each mission, in case you want to undo it. Felderburg 21:49, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

If the dialogs only differ in one word, I think it's easier to just use a slash to show that that word is gender specific. See the guard dialog in the first mission (who cares? Shoot him/her!). Felderburg 23:54, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Nice idea, but it bulks out the article a bit too much. From what I can tell in the initial contact, for example, the green parts are all the same, so we could use divboxes perhaps in that section. But I'll need to gather a bit more data before attempting it.  :3 Sera404 05:09, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure I explained it clearly enough. Take the outleveled dialog, for example:

This

FEMALE

What's up babe? Look, me, I'm not a guy who splits hairs, but I gotta in this situation...

MALE

What's up bro! Look, me, I'm not a guy who splits hairs, but I gotta in this situation...

Versus:

What's up bro/babe! Look...

I do like the use of boxes, I did that for some of his dialog in Leonard's arc

I do agree, the big issue is making the article not too dang long, which I think the him/her style might work better for some dialogs. But yeah, more data. I only have the female side, myself, and since I only have one villain high enough for the arcs, that's all I'm gonna get for a while... Felderburg 05:23, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

The outleveled dialogue is small enough that two boxes is OK. However, I used the {{hidden}} template on the initial contact dialogue trees, for an example of what can be done with longer texts.

Additionally, I moved the sandbox from "Dialog Tree" to Dean MacArthur/Dialogue Tree.

~ AGGE talk/cons 06:12, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I used the hidden for some of his stuff in Leonard's arc... sorry about the dialog thing, I wasn't sure where to put it. I put a post on the forums about dialog trees, and what people should do with them, since I think they'll be a major component of future missions. Felderburg 06:19, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Had a go at converting the first mission with divboxes. Would be better if I could get some alternative boxes where I don't have to put the "MALE" and "FEMALE" part so the boxes can be slimmer to cut down on room a bit more though. I'd think anyone could follow the pattern easily without the words being there. But I'm horrible on making templates.  :D Ideally, I just want a box which is:

{{whatever|red|what's up babe?}}

Which would make a thinner box.  :D Sera404 06:22, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Switched the {{divbox}} to {{hidden}}, which creates a much smaller footprint and looks much cleaner, as well. Yes/no? ~ AGGE talk/cons 06:28, 4 May 2010 (UTC)