Category talk:FGD

Links on FGD Pages?

would it be a good idea to try and linkify relevant things in FGD pages? entity names are obvious ones, but there might be other things, such as variables. Kestrelguy (talk) 09:27, 25 May 2022 (PDT)

Visual style of FGD pages

I think the light grey background with black text is easier to read than grey text on black background.

E. g. Portal2.fgd is what I would prefer over HalfLife2.fgd as it is currently.

The first one makes use of the pre tag while the second uses {{codeblock}}.

However, P2's fgd is an outlier here. It seems most other pages use codeblock and the black background.

Rather than mass changing them, I'd like to see the opinions. Cvoxalury (talk) 14:07, 10 September 2024 (PDT)

The wiki is in dark mode; the big off-white block of text is too much of a flashbang, making it harder to read.
— SirYodaJedi (talk) 15:55, 10 September 2024 (PDT)

It's not nearly bright enough to call it a flashbang, though? To me it's harder to read the blacker tone than the background with grey text on it. It loses definition. Cvoxalury (talk) 00:28, 11 September 2024 (PDT)

This may be good solution. Made Template:FGD which adds (light text) link. See use Left_4_Dead_2.fgd. The fgd text itself is moved to 'Template:FGD/Left 4 Dead.fgd' and transcluded to the fgd page. Also makes it easier to edit the fgd page without the big text in the way --Nescius (talk) 03:11, 11 September 2024 (PDT)

That looks like a reasonable solution.
— SirYodaJedi (talk) 09:42, 11 September 2024 (PDT)

There's a big issue with using that template: it doesn't support scrolling by pressing the mouse wheel then moving the mouse. It only enables horizontal scroll (pretty useless) but not vertical scroll.

The regular old page supported that "pressed" scroll just fine.

Overall I don't think nesting FGDs inside templates is that good... brings back the awful memories of multipage in a way. Isn't it just simpler to have text on pages? Cvoxalury (talk) 05:25, 14 September 2024 (PDT)