OC Tag Guide

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OC Tag The most powerful tag we have at our disposal, the OC tag is useful for identifying which character you're using during a roleplay! This tag is meant to be somewhat similar to how SL2 implements their character icons, albeit significantly simpler and cleaner. The internal implementation of this will be changed internally and controllable by every user, but the day for that isn't today.

So... How do you use it?

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Usage This part of the guide will show you how exactly to use the tag itself.

To begin with things, the syntax of the OC tag works like this:

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[oc={IMG-NUMBER}]{OC-NAME}[/oc]

The {OC-NAME} is combined with {IMG-NUMBER} to get the image. For example {OC-NAME]{IMG-NUMBER}.jpg

In use, it should look like this:

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[oc=1]Narmienne[/oc]

This code is saying to use Narmienne1.jpg

"It'll look like this in the forum itself. You can simply put your quoted text right after the OC tag since it'll automatically wrap to the image."




Here's how it looks in code:

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[oc=1]Narmienne[/oc] "It'll look like this in the forum itself. You can simply put your quoted text right after the OC tag since it'll automatically wrap to the image."

I heavily encourage using three of the linebreak tags (The "br" button near the "center" button up top) in combination with the OC tag. You'll want to use three linebreaks after your first character's dialogue and actions to prevent your other characters' image and text from wrapping onto the first OC image.

The best way to do this is to show it in code and in action.

With 3 Linebreaks (In Action)
"This is the first character's dialogue."




"This is the second character's dialogue and actions but with a linebreak after the first one!."

With 3 Linebreaks (Code)

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[oc=1]Narmienne[/oc] "This is the first character's dialogue."
[br][br][br]
[oc=1]Narmienne[/oc] "This is the second character's dialogue and actions but with a linebreak after the first one!."
[br][br][br][br]

To explain it simply, after I got finished typing out my character's dialogue / actions, I pressed enter so I could type in two BR tags below that dialouge. A single BR tag is equivalent to one press of the "enter" key, but sometimes linebreaking using just the enter key and without any BR tags isn't accepted by post formatting, it's weird.

tldr; keep using the BR tag until it looks right.

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Uploading Icons This is how you get icons to be usable.

I'll be frank: you can't directly manage the icons yourself without me as these files are stored internally in the server's storage itself. Because of this, I've come up with a system of how to upload things. Let's go about this step by step.

Step 1: Get your character images

• Of course, you'll need to make a character icon first before you can use it. Take a photo / any art of your character and crop a square icon for them. Make sure that their face is visible!

Step 2: Resizing and Formats

• OC Icons are displayed in 96x96 and are stored in .jpg files. I suggest uploading your images either in 96x96 (so it's exact) or in 256x256 (so it's scalable for the future). You can use sites like https://www.photopea.com/ or https://imageresizer.com/ to resize your images. This isn't strictly necessary, but it'd be good to do for the sake of organization and keeping things clean.

Step 3: File Naming

• Each of your icons should be named after an Character then Integer, for example: John1.jpg, John2.jpg, John3.jpg. This is because the {IMG-NUMBER} only accepts integers, so you can't make it any more descriptive unfortunately. You also can't just do John.jpg because

Step 4: Uploading

• Log into https://gallery.euphonia-mageia.com/ using the account details you've been provided, then upload the image. Make sure you did Step 3 correctly or else things might not work.

Of course, you can entirely bypass all of this and just have me make the icons for you, but I'm usually quite busy, so it'll either take me a really long time to do or I'll forget entirely. So please, follow the process if you can.