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**kobayashi** · February 19, 2007, 01:43

TO GET STARTED

1. Create the unit_icon.gif first by picking one of the units from your scenario and painting the background white. Crop the file until it is 61 x 48 pixels, which is one unit slot without the borders and then save it.

2. Create a login on the S-League site.

3. Using the upload button in the toolbox section on the left menu bar of the S-League site, Upload the unit_icon.gif

4. Jump to the Scenario page (navigation section on the left menu bar) and then move on to the page from the correct historical period. There is an edit button on the right side of the 'Scenario Pages' section header, click that to enter edit mode.

5.The scenario listings are arranged alphabetically by name. Scroll down the edit window until you find the correct position for scenario. Hit enter to make a blank space there. Copy and paste the code relating to the scenario above or below. It should look like this:

|-
| [[Image:TRON_icon.GIF|The Rape of Nations]]
| [[The Rape of Nations]] v1.1
| 1500
| [[:Category:kobayashi|kobayashi]]
| [[:Category:Age of Discovery Civ2 Scenarios|Age of Discovery]]
| [[:Category:Civ2 MGE Scenarios|Civ2 MGE]]

which is essentially the same as line 3 to 9 in the master template shown on the first post.

6. Edit accordingly, then use the 'preview' button at the bottom to check and if you are satisfied, click 'save'

7. Your Scenario Name should be visible as a green link to your scenario page (which doesn't exist yet). Click the green link to begin creating the actual scenario page, but before you get round to doing that....

**kobayashi** · February 19, 2007, 01:56

THE SCENARIO PAGE

1. upload your scenario zip and your sound zip the same way you did for the unit icon.

2. go to any existing scenario page, go into edit mode and copy the entire coding for that page. Exit edit mode without saving.

3. Create your own page by clicking the green link as described in the post above. It will automatically be in edit mode the first time. Paste the entire contents you copied and edit all the underlined items in the first post. Make sure you use the exact same text for each required item.

For the top section, the best way is to open a second window, go to the historical period page where you first created the green link and cut and paste from there.

Remember to update the cateory items which are te last three items at the bottom as these are used to define the categories your scenario belong to. Without those, you won't appear on the relevant category lists.

4. Use the 'preview' button to check and if you are satisfied, click 'save'. You are encouraged to keep previewing until you are reasonably satisfied as each round of saved changes is recorded as an audit trail.

5. For future editing, you can use the edit button at the right of each section header, or you can use the master edit button (required if you want to edit the stuff above the first section) in the wiki section of the left menu bar.

6. This is optional but you can go to your own Designer page and update that as well. If it is your first time uploading, (and this part is not optional) you'll need to click the green link with your name and paste this on the new page created:

==Scenarios==
{| class="downloaddesc"
! Thumb !! Name !! Misc !! Designer !! Genre !! Medium
|
|}

[[Categoryesigners]]

as with before, you can simply go to another designer's page and copy the formatting from there.

7. Finally update the list of new scenarios loaded on the top of the S-Leage home page. I suggest we keep a floating list of five, so delete off the first entry when you add yours to the end of the list. This list is not alphabetical so just add your entry to the back.

**kobayashi** · February 19, 2007, 01:57

FINE TUNING

It would be nice to individualize your pages, but remember to keep to the style guide by retaining the coding sections at the top and bottom (this will ensure the correct category designations as well) and retaining the description and downloads sections. Here are some of the things you can try:

1. You can insert additional sections by adding this:

==Section heading==

If you add two or more sections to the master format, a contents table will be automatically generated. I recommend against that as the scenario pages will be quite short and the contents table complicates the page uneccessarily.

Adding three equal signs on each side will give you sub sections which are quite useful if a contents table is generated. You probably won't need these unless you a doing a very very long page, such as a scenario tip article.

===Sub-Section heading===

2. for italics, use two single quotations marks like this:

''words in italics''

To bold text, use three single quotations marks like this:

'''words to be highlighted'''

3. To inset graphics, there are two ways I suggest. At the beginning of a paragraph, use the following commands:

[[Image:Name of graphic file|320 px|left|Description]]

or

[[Imagethumb|Description]]

The first inserts a picture and is ideal for decorative graphics while the second inserts a reduced framed icon which can be expanded into the full picture upon clicking. This is ideal for larger graphics which are meant to be examined in great detail.

If you have a few screenshots, you might want to use the gallery command, which works like this:

the less than and greater than signs conflict with the parsing algorithm of this forum so in the following
(LTS) = <
(GTS) = >

*Screenshots
(LTS)gallery(GTS)
Image:Name of graphic file 1|Description
Image:Name of graphic file 2|Description
Image:Name of graphic file 3 |Description
.....any number of additional entries....
(LTS)/gallery(GTS)

4. to indent use either

* item one
* item two
which will be un-numbered or

# item one
# item two
which will be numbered

5. to insert external links:

Link Description [Web Address]

or

[[Web Address Link Description]

6. to create internal links

[[Page Name]]

or

[[Page Name|Link Appears As]]

7. the default colour is red, to change the text colour to black for highlighted quotes and stuff

the less than and greater than signs conflict with the parsing algorithm of this forum so in the following
(LTS) = <
(GTS) = >

(LTS)font color="black"(GTS)black text(LTS)/font(GTS)

or even

(LTS)font color="black"(GTS)...black bold text...(LTS)/font(GTS)

**Eivind IV** · February 19, 2007, 04:19

Maybe this will allow all the dumbasses (

) in here to upload their scens to SL! Great job, kobay!

**kobayashi** · February 19, 2007, 06:15

i was a dumbass too until someone pointed out the master edit button to me

**McMonkey** · February 19, 2007, 10:43

I must confess to being a dummy too until I was pointed to the edit button in the bottom left bar (after logging in!) and after that it was a pretty simple cut and paste / alter text job!

The point is if I can do it anyone can!

A quick question. Would it be acceptable to put classic scenarios from designers that no longer frequent the world of CivII if you use the original description text (say from CFC downloads collection?)?

I would suggest Hellas by John Ellis and Wars of the Mediterranean by Paul Mutica. I could not see why they would object. What do you think guys?

It would also have the advantage of missing out all the clutter on that particular site!

**Boco** · February 19, 2007, 11:20

Me was dumb, too. May still be! I'll bet the site is littered with a few of my discarded draft pages.

HT or CS, when you have the time, can you please make a link to this very useful thread in the first post of the SL GL permanent thread?

**curtsibling** · February 19, 2007, 11:30

We will do that ASAP!

**Eivind IV** · February 19, 2007, 12:14

It's a open source Wiki, hosting user made scenarios, and I can't see any possible reason we shouldn't upload classic scenarios. In fact, I encourage everyone to upload any scenario to the site.

I would preferably see a more structured site though, having scenarios archived into different era's, and having an independent section for MGE and TOT scenarios. I've thought about doing it myself for a long time, but always gave up once started.

Btw, curt, you should edit 'your' section to include every scenario upload you make as well: http://sleague.apolyton.net/index.ph...ry:Curtsibling

**fairline** · February 19, 2007, 12:34

Extremely useful guide

No excuse to not upload the gfx files to the wiki I said I would a year or so ago now..

**Arthedain** · February 19, 2007, 15:04

Originally posted by fairline
Extremely useful guide

No excuse to not upload the gfx files to the wiki I said I would a year or so ago now..

We're still waiting for that ultimate Fairline collection

**McMonkey** · February 19, 2007, 15:48

Cool

I will upload some of my all time favorite scenarios first.

Different era sections would be amazing if there are going to be a lot of scenarions uploaded to the page. I am an organization freak too Eivind

The beauty of the page is being able to ammend it so quickly as easily so I am sure that reorganizing the scenarios would be worth the effort. If I knew how I would do it myself!

The ultimate Fairline collection sounds like a solid gold plan! I have a fair few stashed away already but I am always looking to collect more for far future scenario ideas!

**curtsibling** · February 19, 2007, 16:51

After some trial and error, I got Bitterfrost III up on the wiki.

It's a cool system, I look forward to upload my collection to the pages...

PS
One question, just how much capacity does the SL wiki have???

**Mercator** · February 19, 2007, 17:06

I would think that that's only limited by how much space Apolyton has given to the SLeague site, or the size of the entire server if there aren't any specific restrictions. The admins should know.

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