Subject: About the flash patch images on the wiki...
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Posted on: 2015-12-11 22:49:00 UTC
Most of them don't look like actual patches, while some do. Does anyone want me to fix this? It'd be pretty easy, and I don't really have anything better to do. I just wasn't sure if it was intentional or not, and if it was, I didn't want to mess it up.
A few years back, a guy showed up, and then pretty much dove in/announced he wanted to make "better" flashpatches, proceeded to do a bunch in the realm of what he thought was better, uploaded those and replaced many of old ones, and then promptly disappeared.
-July, who liked the older/original ones much better, actually
The ones with the cloth texture, or the untextured ones?
Lots of the untextured ones were made by me, actually. I've tried to aim for a unified "clipart" style, with simple colors and such that would make for easily recognizable insignia. But, lots were also made by various people for their own departments/divisions (hence the variance in style), and I haven't wanted to mess with those, out of respect for others' contributions and historical value.
That said, we could always include historical patches in addition to modern, unified-style ones... It'd be kind of nice to have them all looking sharp and clean, and the same size. I use circles of 300x300 px, for reference.
~Neshomeh
Oh, do you mean in the infoboxes? Yeah, I could probably set that up. Kinda clutters the top of the infobox, though, IMO.
~Neshomeh
Those tabs have a lot of utility. You could use them on a Time Lord agent's page to distinguish different regenerations, perhaps.
So, on the subject of the patches, I'm assuming you guys don't want me to change anything yet. I would support a modern, unified style, though, in case we end up doing something like that.
We'd need a Canon Character infobox first, though. A Continuum one wouldn't go amiss, either, perhaps. Dunno what information we'd want in those, though, other than the creator(s)'s name(s) and date of publication in the case of the latter.
It would be nice to hear more opinions on the subject of flash patches before anyone takes any drastic action.
~Neshomeh
At least it'll give me more time to mess around with Gimp and figure out the best way to edit/create the patches. I also could use a better cloth texture. The one I'm using came from a sheet of denim, so this'll give me a chance to find a good texture.
Is to show a few examples of what you are proposing, just so we can get a better feel for it. Though I would be in favor of creating a uniform system.
You can use them to distinguish different additions of the flash patch