Editing Proposals (section)

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# [[Template Editor]]: This page has long lists of numbers. Could benefit from turning a lot of this info into a table (and maybe add a few pictures).
# Scrolling left-right on a page causes the left sidebar to overlay the page text. See [[Grail]] for an example (may need to make the browser window smaller to see the scrollbar).
#* I tried setting the table max-width to 100% in css. It allows tables to compress further. Images still prevent further compression of the table. So we should see this issue less often. –[[user_talk:imahero|imahero]] 21:16, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

== Template (advanced) ==
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# Content Switching errors:
## [[Template:Artifact sidebar]]: Odd behavior when disabling, then enabling content switches. Hota rows are shown when when should be suppressed.
##* As far as I can currently tell the only way to fix this is to double click every element with the class mw-customtoggle. I can manually (from the console) use javascript to click the header once and then again and it does in fact fix it. But when attempting to click it twice from a script that loops over all the elements in rapid succession it fails. I've tried adding delays but it didn't help. –[[user_talk:imahero|imahero]] 01:14, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

== File upload/editing ==
# Some of the creature dwelling pics are virtually identical to their upgraded version (e.g. [[Chapel of Stilled Voices]], [[Altar of Thought]]). Can we update these pics to show more of a difference?
# Change all [[Adventure map creature sprites]] shadows to be semi-transparent black
# Change all [[:Category:Artifact pictures (adventure map)]] shadows to be semi-transparent black
#* Standardise adventure map artifacts to 64x32
#* Standardise all artifacts to .png
# Let's rename the Proposals icon/page to something more welcoming. Maybe something like "Help Out!" --[[User:Legate|Legate]] ([[User talk:Legate|talk]])
# The campaign backgrounds are better, but not quite how they show in-game. Compare [[:File:Cback ab ab 8.png]] with [[:File:Cmap ab ab 8.png]]. I think using the slashes for background makes it more clear which is the current level.
#* If you want to get really fancy, you can use the unhighlighted color (not the slash color) to show when the player has a choice for which scenario to play (for example - [[Faerie Dragons]] and [[Rust Dragons]] can be played in either order). This is how it shows in game as well. --[[User:Legate|Legate]] ([[User talk:Legate|talk]]) 18:56, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
#* I'm not remaking them again, at least not for a while. I did the option you selected and I don't really want to do everything all over again for the sake of changing them to slashes right now. Perhaps in the future, but I have other things I need to update; this is fine for now. [[File:Hero Cosmos small.png|link=user:phasma|→ Phasma]] 19:09, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
#* Agreed. Thanks Phasma. --[[User:Legate|Legate]] ([[User talk:Legate|talk]]) 20:13, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
# The factory creatures on [[Adventure map creature sprites]] are missing their shadows.

== New Features (in progress) ==
=== Translation ===
# Templates do not handle translation well when transcluding them. See my post on Discord from 01/APRIL/2025 with a screenshot to see what I mean, but the "Other languages" area appears above each instance of the template and it takes up the width of the page each time, essentially having the <nowiki>{{clear}}</nowiki> element attached to it and pushing everything below it. This means that until we can somehow remove that from templates (at least when transcluded), we can't translate templates yet... which is a problem when we always use templates. [[File:Hero Cosmos small.png|link=user:phasma|→ Phasma]] 12:47, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
# I'm already finding that you cannot edit templates after translating them which is very annoying; the translated version saves as TemplateName/en, and when calling TemplateName, it displays TemplateName/en INSTEAD OF Template name. Unless I'm missing something (which I probably am), we should make sure to finalise templates before translating them; all of the new ones should be fine! [[File:Hero Cosmos small.png|link=user:phasma|→ Phasma]] 12:47, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
#* I'll update the standard artifact template some time to increase the size of the event text box. [[File:Hero Cosmos small.png|link=user:phasma|→ Phasma]] 16:04, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
# Add official translations where possible. I've got installs of all the languages available on GOG (English, Russian, Polish, French) and the unofficial German translation, but I don't think there's an easy way to add translations other than manually. Not sure what we can add for now that will avoid templates other than campaign texts - any ideas? [[File:Hero Cosmos small.png|link=user:phasma|→ Phasma]] 12:47, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
# Speaking of translations. There's some discrepancies I've noticed in russian. Looking at the TownType.txt file from H3Bitmap.lod from the various versions, I get these town names:
{|
! !! 🇺🇸 !!  🇫🇷 !!  🇵🇱 !! 🇷🇺
|-
| {{Town|noname=|Castle}} || Castle || Château || Zamek || Замок
|-
| {{Town|noname=|Rampart}} || Rampart || Rempart || Bastion || Бастион
|-
| {{Town|noname=|Tower}} || Tower || Tour || Forteca || Башня
|-
| {{Town|noname=|Inferno}} || Inferno || Hadès || Inferno || Инферно
|-
| {{Town|noname=|Necropolis}} || Necropolis || Nécropole || Nekropolis || Некрополь
|-
| {{Town|noname=|Dungeon}} || Dungeon || Donjon || Lochy || Подземелье
|-
| {{Town|noname=|Stronghold}} || Stronghold || Bastion || Twierdza || Цитадель
|-
| {{Town|noname=|Fortress}} || Fortress || Forteresse || Cytadela || Крепость
|-
| {{Town|noname=|Conflux}} || Conflux || Conflux || Wrota żywiołów || Колония
|}
However, the russian-language site heroes3towns.com has Rampart as "Оплот", not "Бастион", Dungeon as "Темница", not "Подземелье", and Conflux as "Сопряжение", not "Колония".
#* Interesting - I wonder if this is a regional difference, a release difference, or some other type of change in localisation? Perhaps stick with the official release info until we know more, though again, this stuff will all be in a template so we have no choice but to wait and resolve that issue first. [[File:Hero Cosmos small.png|link=user:phasma|→ Phasma]] 16:04, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
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