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diafero wrote:Thanks, I'll add them to the ages on the Shard. (Not sure if this warrants a UAM re-release...)

Btw, Argosy does not seem to have an image either, so if you feel like it...

Sure, here it is

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diafero wrote:Oh wow! So far I usually was of the opinion that age writers should pick the covers for their books, so I am not sure how I feel about just putting one in for them.

I was playing with the convert Bash command, so it only took a few seconds

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declare -a StringArray=("Abysos" "Adrael" "Aerie" ...)
for AGENAME in "${StringArray[@]}" ; do
  convert -font Argos-Regular -fill "#FED700" -pointsize 24 -draw "text 160,469 '$AGENAME'" CoverImage_xxxx.png "CoverImage_$AGENAME.png"
  convert -rotate "90" "CoverImage_$AGENAME.png" "CoverImage_$AGENAME.jpg"
  rm "CoverImage_$AGENAME.png"
done

CoverImage_xxxx.png is just the blank cover rotated by 90°.

But yeah, the intended use is as an addon for offline Uru, so one can tell Ages apart on a custom shelf. I’ll post a link to a zip archive in another post.

I installed the new Shelf on the Shard.

I did some small changes to the "puzzle book" texts, to make it more clear how the title and subtitles are to be interpreted. Please let me know what you think.

Also I was a bit surprised to see Tiam listed as a "big" age, when even the description says that the age is "small". But maybe the age is bigger than it presents itself as?

And finally, Yinfara seems to not have a linking panel, which does not look great in the shelf. Korovev, if you could make one for that as well, that would be great.

Ah, what is of course also missing are the covers for the puzzle books. Korovev, did you post those already? I could only find book I so far.

Here's one for Yinfara, I haven't got around making panels for the latest ones yet

Thanks. I added this to the Shard.

Please let me know what you think of the last changes I made to the shelf (see above). A new release of the Offline KI needs to happen to support Tiam, and since the Shelf is part of that, would be good to get that settled for the release.

I misread your other post, here are the covers: Book1, Book2, Book3, Book4 just in case. I did forgot to upload them


Maybe we could drop the “big” and just have “Ages with a lot of hidden extras”
Tiam is not big, but it does have hidden extras, and it’s one of the firsts made with Korman (not from Doobes), so I thought it was nice to showcase it somewhere. But I think Ametist is planning more updates, so it could also be on the autofill section for a while.


At some point (maybe after it drops out of the autofill section) Alabaster Depth should be added to the Puzzles 1 book, but I’m not sure if after Alabaster or after Alabaster3.

Thanks for the covers, I will add them shortly.

Maybe we could drop the “big” and just have “Ages with a lot of hidden extras”

That sounds like a good idea actually, I will do that.

Tiam is not big, but it does have hidden extras, and it’s one of the firsts made with Korman (not from Doobes), so I thought it was nice to showcase it somewhere. But I think Ametist is planning more updates, so it could also be on the autofill section for a while.

Fair, no objection to keeping it.

At some point (maybe after it drops out of the autofill section) Alabaster Depth should be added to the Puzzles 1 book, but I’m not sure if after Alabaster or after Alabaster3.

We should ask Dulcamara. But she has some fixes/updates planned anyway.

I just realised that Tsoidahl Prad is in the Nexus now (it used to be the prize for the Zefora puzzle), so I'd suggest swapping Zefora for Tsoidahl, which has links to Zefora and Shinelight Manor:

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[Book]
cover:PuzzleAges3
text:Puzzle Ages III,These ages have chains of puzzles from easy to impossible. Be ready to take plenty of notes!
age:Tovaht
age:Cathedral
age:RoshanhninKorvahkhn
age:Ashream
age:Ahrkane
age:oolbahnneea
age:Sonavio
age:TaklaMakan

...

[Book]
cover:CityLocations
text:City Locations,These ages have in common that they all reside in the age of D'ni and show a part of the caverns that were once inhabited by that people.\nVothol Gallery; Fehnir House; Sholek's Temple; Tsoidahl Prad; Age Maps Gallery were part of the 2010 DLC contest.
age:vothol
age:FehnirHouse
age:Tosholek
age:TsoidahlPrad
age:AgeMapsGallery
age:Terahgrahm
age:Zahlto
age:Tomahn
age:kaelispuboffice
age:WNiche

Sounds good, I did that. Now I'll make a new Offline KI release.