Ship Database Created! | Improved 24th July

Post by **th15** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:43 pm

With the sheer amount of custom ship submissions, I've created a way for users to upload your own ships right here on wyrdysm.com.

You can go here: http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... upload.htm

to upload your .shp and .sbl files.

However, due to server constraints, I can't provide hosting for screenshots so you'll have to host screenshots somewhere else.

If you wish to share your custom ships here, you should take a screenshot, put it on imageshack (or any other imagehost), upload the .sbl and .shp files to this website then post the screenshot and file links in a topic in this forum.

Relos · Post by **Relos** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:13 pm

I'll be sure to use this. Thanks th15.

Post by **th15** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:22 am

Tidied up the html for the ship database a fair bit, it fits with the rest of the site now.

Post by **th15** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:39 pm

Improved the Ship Database again. It now gives you the exact link to your uploaded file instead of making you hunt through the whole database for it.

derekiv · Post by **derekiv** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:21 am

a more user friendly database would be much appreiciated.

Boba Fettuccini · Post by **Boba Fettuccini** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:14 am

...you'd have to be a total n00b for this not to be user friendly, dude.

Post by **Arcalane** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:47 am

Actually, it's not entirely userfriendly. Finding ships in the database, for example, is quite a chore.

I believe th15 is planning a makeover for the database though.

Winged Cat · Post by **Winged Cat** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 12:05 pm

If you have the ship's name, go to the list then hit Ctrl+F in your browser to search by name.

...okay, yeah, there's room for improvement, but it's not THAT bad yet.

Post by **Arcalane** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 12:11 pm

Well no, but there are a lot of things that could be done to make it a lot more useful; like a ship "tagging" system. The author could upload their ship, link to a screenshot off their image hosting site of choice, and add a short description and several "tags". The tags would act like categories, and be stuff like "light", "assault", "defense", "destroyer", "battleship", etcetera. - clicking a tag would bring up all ships tagged the same, and you could sort by author or view a kind of gallery of all of their ships. You'd need some kind of login/registration system for managing ships as well.

That's just what I'd like to see, mind - not what'll happen.

Boba Fettuccini · Post by **Boba Fettuccini** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:15 am

a Heavengames style upload system would be cool...

KhirsahEthereal · Post by **KhirsahEthereal** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:21 am

Just press Ctrl+F and search the ship you want....

BigFattyPlus · Post by **BigFattyPlus** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:46 am

How does one go about uploading a whole fleet? Do I just load all the ships into a .rar and upload it? Is do I have to upload the ships one at a time?

Latooni · Post by **Latooni** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:53 am

BigFattyPlus wrote:How does one go about uploading a whole fleet? Do I just load all the ships into a .rar and upload it?

That would probably be best, yes.

2500kgm3 · Post by **2500kgm3** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:45 am

Can we get an ETA of when will this uploading tool will work again? are you working on it?

TheBlueEcho · Post by **TheBlueEcho** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:59 am

2500kgm3 wrote:Can we get an ETA of when will this uploading tool will work again? are you working on it?

Probably not. He left to the IGF in san fran. unless he has a Laptop/Notebook.