Welcome to the latest CryWiki status update! With the Wars SDK and Patch 1.4 just out earlier this evening, and over a year of work making the CryWiki a better modding documentation resource, we've finally gone live with our latest work. To inform you of what we've changed to the Wiki, today we've got a detailed changelog of what can now be done with the Wiki, and how we've improved the interface, style, features and organisation of the content.
New Style
In an effort to create a new, modern and aesthetically pleasing style for the CryWiki, wiki team member
Watbe has spent weeks honing some design ideas to create what you see now. With new fonts, layouts, background templates and designs, the Wiki will now be a much more attractive site to peruse for documentation.
Official Documentation
In an effort to unify where all documentation for Crysis modding is located, we've ported the official documentation from doc.crymod.com to the CryWiki, and formatted it to fit our brand new Wiki design. Currently, we just have the Sandbox2 official documentation there; by next week the asset creation guides will also be available on the site to allow you guys to access all the documents with ease.
Improved Sidebar
We decided during development that our old sidebar was a bit too clogged up with not very useful links, and we wanted to change that so that everything you really want to navigate to in the Wiki is on that sidebar. To improve this, we have reworked the sidebar as follows.
Navigation- Main Page
- Official Docs
- Community Docs
- Code Samples
- Useful Links
Support- Editor Information
- Editor Help Forums
- Mod SDK Information
- Mod SDK Help Forums
- CryWiki FAQ
New Features
When we were re-designing the CryWiki, we wanted to add a number of new features to make adding articles, browsing content and viewing content easier to do. As such, we've added a few coded extensions to the Wiki to improve the sites usability. We've listed the main ones below; a few more will be added in the near future.
- Video Embedding
Video tutorials are a large feature of modding documentation. Guides and references can often be easier to follow when watching someone else talk you through the process, so as such we've implemented the feature to embed videos in to your Wiki articles. This can be done using the following code in your page;
Code:
--YOUTUBE--
VideoID = The ID characters at the end of a YouTube URL e.g "o5dsjurA--0"
Embed Normal Quality = <youtube>VideoID</youtube>
Embed High Quality = <youtube quality="hq">VideoID</youtube>
Embed HD Quality = <youtube width="640" height="360" quality="hd">VideoID</youtube>
Code:
--VEOH--
VideoID = The ID characters at the end of a Veoh URL e.g "v11345824zNpN5A3d"
Embed = <veoh>VideoID</veoh>
Code:
--VIMEO--
VideoID = The ID characters at the end of a Vimeo URL e.g "1331574"
Embed = <vimeo>VideoID</vimeo>
- Flowgraph Viewer
Flowgraph samples are one of the more popupar code samples found on the Wiki. Due to this popularity, we decided to add a nifty little feature (courtesy of Jameszhao00 and Ins) that allows you to manipulate flowgraphs via a flash object on the page. This means that instead of an image, you can drag around nodes, zoom in, and pan around the flowgraph in order to gain a better understanding of a flowgraph.
- External Image Embedding
Due to the fact that uploading extensive images on the Wiki public server is not always practical, we've also enabled embedding of an external image into your article. With this, you can embed images from popular image hosts such as Imageshack and Photobucket, or even from your own FTP. The Wiki markup for this is simple; just paste the URL of the image link into the page (without any tags around it) and the image will automatically embed itself into your article.
That's it for today's news! Head over to the CryWiki now and see what we've done with the place! Make sure you add your own content whilst you're there over the next few weeks, and take advantage of the content we already have. Also take this opportunity to thank the Wiki Team, led by
Ins, for the hard work they've put in over the past few months in order to get the Wiki to what it is now.
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