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For the ease of everyone (hopefully), you can now use the following link to create a book to be used IG:

http://illarion.org/~abcfantasy/us_bookgen.php

If the javascript is not working, use the following: http://illarion.org/~abcfantasy/us_book ... ?no_opti=1 (thanks Merung)

- The page is for now in English only (may be translated in german too).
- All books need to be written in both english and german.
- Maximum of 250 pages per book.
- Maximum of 200 characters per page (it won't let you type any further).
- Once you click Generate Script, a new window will open with the code. PM the code to me, and in that PM, you may include any more information you wish (Ex. where you want the book to be, etc...).
- Any questions, ambiguities, confusion, bugs, etc... you can reply here, PM me or contact me via MSN.

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Now that it should be somewhat easier to write books, I wish to ask people to create books for each craft, describing what the craft is, what basic tools are needed, how to craft, etc... enough to get a new player get a basic idea of how it works. Carpentry, Lumberjacking and Fishing are done.

Can specific books be written for specific areas of Gobaith also? For instance one of the elves of Tol etc?

Yes, definitely.

<3 great stuff.

sehr hilfreich, super danke!


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GREAT

Finally the academy gets books : )

Looks great, thanks! The word wrap for graphical books ingame is done automatically?

PS: Add to the "Instructions" what to do with the script (PM to you etc.).

The word wrap is done automatically. But you can force a wrap in the way its descriped on that page.

Nitram wrote:But you can force a wrap in the way its descriped on that page.

I've read this . I was asking because in some available books the word wrap seems a bit wider that the graphical page, IMO.

Do we need to use scripting for the books?

Deinarious wrote:Do we need to use scripting for the books?

Read the first line of his first post. ffs.

How I scripted book?

Oh, I see what you did there...

-edit- Could I see an example please?

Deinarious wrote:Oh, I see what you did there...

-edit- Could I see an example please?

Yes you can, click on the link, write a book and click "make code" and there you have your example. It's not rocket science.

Bump, and perhaps someone stickify this?

This is long overdue, great idea.

If i put a monster name in the comment side, could i get a picture of that monster? Or does that only work for items?

Only for items, sadly. Then again, items include trees, walls, etc... (not just items you can pick up)

Sticky this.

Here's a treat for the one who stickied the post (finally):

Translation of the first post:

Zur allgemeinen Arbeitserleichterung (hoffentlich) derjenigen, die ein in-game Buch schreiben wollen, kann nun der folgende Link verwendet werden:

http://illarion.org/~abcfantasy/us_bookgen.php

- Die Seite ist (vorerst) nur auf Englisch verfügbar (spätere Übersetzung nicht ausgeschlossen)
- Alle Bücher müssen auf Englisch und Deutsch geschrieben werden.
- Maximal 250 Seiten pro Buch
- Maximal 200 Zeichen pro Seite
- Sobald man "Generate Script" anklickt, öffnet sich ein neues Fenster mit dem code des Buches. Schickt diesen als Nachricht über das Forum an mich (Abcfantasy). Fügt dieser Nachricht zusätzlich Informationen über das Buch bei (Wo ihr das Buch haben wollt, etc...)
- Bei auftretenden Fragen, Verwirrungen, Fehlern etc. könnt ihr euch hier melden, mir über das Forum als Nachricht schicken oder mich im MSN kontaktieren (Abcfantasy)

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Nun da es einigermaßen einfacher sein sollte Bücher zu verfassen, wünsche ich mir, dass Bücher für jedes Handwerk geschrieben werden,
schildernd, was das Handwerk ist, welches Werkzeug benötigt wird,
wie man es anwendet etc... genügend Informationen um einem neuen Spieler eine grobe Idee zu geben wie es funktioniert.
Schreinerei, Holzfällen und Fischen sind schon fertiggestellt.

Could you make the input box for your content a textarea, instead of one line only? I want to be able to see what I type.

EDIT

Even better, make a textarea, and let a script decide how many pages it should be.

Aye, that's a problem I've had with scripting books too. If it cut off at 200 immedeately, and began a new page, it'd be very helpful.

The problem is, that would not always be desired. What if users want to end the sentence at the end of the page, and not have an incomplete sentence (as most of the current books are)? Or they want to write only a few words and then start a new page (ex. titles/chapters/etc...)?

In addition to that, there might be a problem with the two languages, since they would have different lengths and thus different number of pages.

If you are bothered writing in a single text box because of text going "out" of the box (in which case you can still see the text by using normal scrolling keys such as left/right arrow keys, home, end, etc...), you can use a site such as http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/scr ... ount.shtml to write a page, making sure you don't skip the 200 character limit. Then copy the text and paste in the text box.

Would a book on the art of gobaith crime be acceptable?

Sundo Raca wrote:Would a book on the art of gobaith crime be acceptable?

Its not really something you'd put in a book is it?

Of course it's acceptable, why not? Anyone can write a book. There's no magical forces stopping you.

Now where the book would be stationed is another story.

Nalzaxx wrote:

Sundo Raca wrote:Would a book on the art of gobaith crime be acceptable?

Its not really something you'd put in a book is it?

This is a fantasy world.

maybe a 'secret' part of the library?

Does it even work?
I tried it now with Opera, Firefox and even *shiver* Internet explorer, no matter what buttons I click, it all stays the same, it generates no scripts, there is no comment box, it won't let me set any pagenumber, it stays with the first page only and the only thing that even seems to work is the reset button, so is it just me or has everyone these problems?

I can confirm these problems using Firefox.

http://illarion.org/~abcfantasy/us_book ... ?no_opti=1


This is the fixed version.