User talk:Verde Sal

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Images suggestion
Hi there Fancypantsguy,

I noticed that you've uploaded many player card images recently and replaced low-quality images. Well done fo the effort first of all! You're doing a great job :)

There is a little trick that i think might help you getting those more easily. This is your current penguin player card, and it's updated whenever you log off CP. So if you wear a certain item and then log out, this link would be updated as well. You can also use this link, which is identical, but with the background and pin removed. This way you can get a clear version with the shadow below the penguin and with clear edges of any item that you wear.

Hope this could help somehow :)

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  05:20, May 8, 2014 (UTC)
 * P.S. congratulations for almost reaching 300 edits! Penguin-Pal   (talk)  05:22, May 8, 2014 (UTC)

RE:Picture Help
Hi Fancypants,

When it comes to furniture items, there is a variety of ways for achiving this. The method that some users and i use for taking furniture items' images- whether it's a furniture icon or a furniture sprites: Note that when it comes for furniture sprites, this method doesn't always include the shadow of the sprite. To add it, but there are a couple of tricks to include it as well.
 * 1) The first step is to download the file. It can be done either by:
 * 2) Right click the link to the SWF file and choose to download.
 * 3) Go to the SWF file, click the URL bar and press Ctrl+S. Or, select 'download' in the toolbar menu.
 * 4) Open the file using a program, such as Trillix.
 * 5) Go to the "sprites" list on the right. Press the "+" sign on its left to expand the list.
 * 6) Search for the sprite that you'd like to export (you can press it to display what it looks like).
 * Now, if you're looking for a furniture sprites, follow the following sub-steps. If not, skip to step 6.
 * 1) On the sprites list, find the sprite that you want (e.g. Sprite 21, in the case of the Mossy Log).
 * 2) Press the "+" button next to it.
 * 3) You'll now see an expanded list of frames- each one represent a single arrow-key-changes image.
 * 4) Mark each one of them on the list on the right, and press the "Extract object" button on the top bar.
 * 5) A folder will appear. To view the frames, go to 701.swf Sprites  Sprite 21. On this case, 701.swf is the name of the file from which you extracted the sprites, and Sprite21 is the sprite from which the frames of the arrow-key-changes images were extracted.
 * 6) If you followed step 5, skip to step 7. Now, mark the sprite of the furniture icon, and click the "Extract object" button at the top. A folder will appear. Go to to the folder named after your file (e.g. 701.swf), go to Sprites, and search for a file named after your sprite (e.g. Sprite 48.swf).
 * 7) For an easier access, right click the extracted files, and cut them. Paste them in your desktop.
 * 8) Open each one of these files with SWiX, and follow the instruction here.

In addition, some furniture items have their own sprites, so all it takes is to extract the sprite without bothering with its smaller frames. I know that these instructions are long, but the entire process of doing all of it, especially with a bit of practice, can last no more than two minutes or so.

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  06:35, May 26, 2014 (UTC)

RE:RE: Picture Help
Hi Fancypants,

If the link already exists in the wiki, such as a catalog link or a clothing/furniture item's link, you can use them to download the file. If not, there are 2 main options for what you can do: Penguin-Pal  (talk)  13:58, May 26, 2014 (UTC)
 * If it's an item (clothing, furniture, etc.), search for the item's name in the clothing or furniture JSON files- they list all clothing/furniture items and their IDs. Once you've find the ID associated with a given item, copy it, get a SWF link to another item from an existing page in the wiki (like this one), and replace the number in the end with the ID, then hit enter. You'd then go to the SWF file of the item that you're looking for.
 * After seeing this item in CP (like opening a catalog, or viewing an item in your inventory), open a new tab, type in about:cache in the URL bar and hit enter. You'd then see a list of all recent files that were used in your browser, including SWF files from CP. If you use this method, it's recommended to do this in your igloo or another empty room (or server), if possible, as if you're in some crowded place, the list would also include clothing SWF files of other penguins' outfits.

Nice work
I see you've been adding needed images to articles recently, specifically those of an item on a player card. Thank you for doing this, and I hope you keep up the good work! :)

Kallie Jo  (talk)  16:35, June 4, 2014 (UTC)

RE:Background Photos
Hi Fancypants,

In most cases, these steps should work (the "Using Kurst SWF Renderer" section). Another option is to go to the SWF of the background paper in CP's website, zoom in, drag to the top and take a screenshot, then drag to the bottom and take a screenshot, and then combine the two screenshots in an image editor.

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  07:25, June 9, 2014 (UTC)

Hi
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ɐɾuıN uǝǝɹפ (talk) 19:42, June 20, 2014 (UTC)

RE:Current Player Card
Hi there, You might notice that I'm not P-P. I just saw your message and knew that P-P was offline and I could reply quicker. Anyways, in the User infobox, you have to replace  with. After, you would have to put your "Friends List ID" or your SWID. You can read more about how to get your SWID here. Anyways, I see that your penguin is Verde Sal; its SWID is. Replace whatever is in the |image= parameter with  to make it show your current player card. Hope my instructions weren't too hard to follow.

Kallie Jo  (talk)  20:40, June 22, 2014 (UTC)

RE:Signature Help
Hi Fancypants,

Here are a few sections that show how to set your password:

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  06:43, June 30, 2014 (UTC)

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Hey
Epic signature!

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  14:11, June 30, 2014 (UTC)

RE:Player Card Photos
Hi Fancypants,

You sure can :) On this blog by Sandorl, he posted a way to do exactly that. Check out his instructions (i can also give you instructions for making it transparent if needed, but i cannot stay for long but will be able to send them to ou later if you're interested).

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  14:15, July 2, 2014 (UTC)

RE:Error Message
Hi Fancypants,

I get the same error- it's mostly temporary though. I've uploaded a saved version that i keep to swfcabin, you can find it here for now (all IDs are set to 0, just change them).

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  15:23, July 2, 2014 (UTC)

RE:One More Question
Hi Fancypants,

See the discussion on [ this section] for more info about changing the color to black.

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  03:44, July 3, 2014 (UTC)

RE:In-Game SWF
Hi Fancypants,

There is a tutorial available, check out the parts of the following discussion: Penguin-Pal  (talk)  07:00, July 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) [ oldid 1411502]
 * 2) [ oldid 1410175] (though you can use a larger content scale).

RE:SWF Cabin
Hi Fancypants,

In the second file, rather than opening it in the browser and adding the ID to the URL, it's a modified version that is programmed to load swf files from the same folder. If you download it to your computer, download to the same folder the player card swf file, and call it item0.swf. Then, open the file that you downloaded from swfcabin using Kurst, and generate the player card PNG image (don't forget to set the  in Kurst to 5).

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  14:52, July 20, 2014 (UTC)

RE:Crop an Image?
Hi Fancypants,

There are many ways to crop an image. Each image editor has a crop tool (for instance, in GIMP you can access it from the toolbox or using the Shift+C shortcut), which allows you to draw a rectangle that will determine the edges of the image.

However, there are easier ways to crop an image. GIMP also has an autocrop tool, accessible from Image Autocrop Image, which will perfectly crop the image. If you're using Paint.NET, you can autocrop by selecting the transparent area of the background, inverting the selection, and then choosing Crop to Selection through the Image menu, or using the Ctrl + Shift + X shortcut.

Penguin-Pal  (talk)  05:11, July 25, 2014 (UTC)