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Sauerbraten Talk => General Chat => Topic started by: Origin on June 18, 2016, 01:47:08 AM

Title: Looking for Banner Designs
Post by: Origin on June 18, 2016, 01:47:08 AM

Hi everyone.

As you may have noticed, I recently added server, player, and clan banners to SauerTracker (https://sauertracker.net/banners (https://sauertracker.net/banners)). However, I am really bad at design, and I'm looking for some new themes to feature on the website. Here are some samples:

(http://i.imgur.com/ZY47Agz.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/BMJtJf6.png)

If you are interested, you can create a banner theme and make it available for everyone to use.

How to write themes?

You will find everything you need to know on https://github.com/AngrySnout/SauerTracker-banners/blob/master/README.md (https://github.com/AngrySnout/SauerTracker-banners/blob/master/README.md). If you need any help you can ask in this thread. If you have a cool design idea but can't get it to work, we can work together and make it happen.

Once you have written a theme on https://sauertracker.net/banners (https://sauertracker.net/banners), click Generate and post the image URL here, along with a name for your theme. If it looks good it will be added to the theme list.

You may also send me a pull request on GitHub.

What are the limitations?

Fonts: When previewing your theme, you can use any font installed on your system, but when rendering it on the server, some fonts won't work. If you need any custom fonts not available, mention so in your post.
Render time: Rendering uses a good amount of resources. For now, to keep server load down and prevent abuse, render time per banner is limited to 6 seconds with 2 concurrent jobs max (default themes take between 600ms and 2s).
Confusing API: There are some inconsistencies between the API at https://sauertracker.net/api (https://sauertracker.net/api) and the object provided to the banner template. I am working on improving the API, but for now you'll have to experiment.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Looking for Banner Designs
Post by: star on June 18, 2016, 01:58:27 AM

Although I was never the type to use those banners, anywhere... from a technical standpoint there is only one thing to say about this:

AWESOME!

Title: Re: Looking for Banner Designs
Post by: Origin on June 18, 2016, 04:07:12 PM

Thanks!

I'm not the banner user type either, but after seeing it on gametracker.com I thought it would be a cool addition to SauerTracker.

The main advantage though is that server owners can customize and place ordinary image banners on their website without having to use server side scripting or JS to access the tracker's API.