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Fires Clanbase 2.0 on 26-Jun-2014
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Please read first:
This is a tutorial i wrote a few years back years back on how to create a signature. It might not be fully up to date any more, but i think it might still help some people out here to make some awesome looking signatures
The sizes of the signatures used in this tutorial may be bigger than the max allowed size for signatures on the famcraft forums. At this point of writing, i am not sure what size is maximum allowed on the famcraft forums.


Before we start:
For this tutorial i use photoshop CS3. I assume any newer version of photoshop has all the same functions, thought they might be on some other places in the menu than in CS3.
And least but not last: Turn on some good music before you start! (how about that famcraft radio huh? )


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Tutorial
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One of the first thing you want to do, when starting to work on sigs is to download some Fonts and Brushes. At this time photoshop doesn't even need to be started yet.
2 very good sites to be looking for some fonts are http://www.dafont.com and http://www.1001fonts.com
Note the different copyright notices on the fonts (Free for commercial use / free for personal use / etcetera ) Just browse the fonts and download the ones you like. try to think in what style you want your sig to be, and make choices based on that.
After you downloaded the fonts, best place to put them will be in C:/windows/fonts (i dont know where you should put this on a mac)  but alternative you could also load them into C:/Program files/Common files/adobe/fonts
personally i would go for the first.

now for the brushes use this link: Deviantart Brushes
or go to Deviant website and go to the "Resources & Stock Images" => "Application Resources" => "Photoshop Brushes"
just browse the brushes here and again, download the ones you like.
you can find loads and loads of brushed here, so take your time to find a few you like and think would be nice for your signature.
after downloading, put the brushes in C:/programfiles/Adobe/Present/Brushes

Now its time to fire up photoshop, and load the brushes into the application. if done correct, the new fonts will also be loaded now.
To add the brushes, click on the normal brush in the left menu, after that click on the tittle black down arrow right from where you see the current selected brush. you will see a list of the brushes now that ware loaded into photoshop and you can select the one you want to use.
it should look a bit like this:



Now click on the little arrow on the top right that i pointed in red in the above image. after clicking on this little black arrow, click on "Load brushes" now browse to your brushes and load them into photoshop.

**alternative you can drag/drop the new downloaded brushes into photoshop application to load them**

If all went well, you now have  a nice collection of Fonts and Brushes to start working on your signature.

Ok lets start a new document.
Personally i prefer a wide but low height sig. In my opinion this fits best on forums without getting huge sigs.
So i will take for this example a signature with 500 with and 100 height.
The setting i use are set like this:



Now to start off with, we are going to render some clouds. so click in the top menu on "Filter" => "Render" => "Clouds" you will see some black and white clouds. (if you selected a colour by accident, press "D" on keyboard to reset colours back to black and white)
now you can press a few times on CTRL + F to repeat the clouds forming till you have a nice setting of clouds you want to use for your sig.

Now press CTRL + Shift + N to create a new layer. Don't change any of the settings on the layer.
To make it more easy to understand your own layers, you could rename them. For example rename the to Black1 / White1 or something like that.

Ff you haven't done yet, click again on "D" to reset your colours to black and white. colour will be added later on.

Now on this new layer, start brushing. only use the colours black and white.
For this example it doesn't matter if you use black and white on the same layer, just brush your image some and make use of the different brushes you got. Make sure you fill your image a bit.

Now make a second layer by pressing  CTRL + Shift + N again. Again you could rename the layer to make it more easy to identify. Now on this new layer, start brushing again like you also done on the previous layer.
You can add more layers if you want to, but for this tutorial i will stop at just these 2 layers to keep it easy.

My image will now look like this, depending on the brushes, you should have something similar to it:



Allright, time to make some colours. Click in the top menu on "Layer" => "New Adjustment Layer" => "Color balance" and click OK.
You will see a window looking like this:



For this tutorial, i will use this settings:

Midtones: +100, -50, -100
Shadows: +100, -50, -100

At this tutorial i don't use the Highlights because these have a pretty strong effect, using it in the wrong way will make your sig look bad. But feel free to experiment with it later on.
After setting the settings, click on OK to apply.

Now, in the right corner you see a little window looking like this:



Click on the Eye image to make that current layer invisible. use this now to make the colour balance layer you just make invisible.
we will make it back visible later on, so keep it invisible for now.

Now make a second colour balance layer above the first one, so again click on: "Layer" => "New Adjustment Layer" => "Color balance"
This time use these settings:

Midtones: 0, 0, -100
Shadows: 0, 0, -100

Again make the newly made layer invisible with the eye.
Now create a 3rd (and last) colour balance layer, and use these settings now:

Midtones: 100, -50, -100
Shadows: 100, 0, -100

Make all the colour layers back visible by clicking on the eye again.
The sig will look like this now:



With all those colour it looks pretty horrable now, i know. We will be fixing this by using selecting 1 of the colour balance layers and clicking "Filter" => "Render" => "Clouds"
By selecting the other layers 1 by 1 and pressing CTRL + F you will also apply the clouds effect on these layers too.
Keep on pressing the CTRL + F on the different layers till you see a effect you like.
My image will look like this now, and if done correct yours will have a similar effect.



Oh yea! it starts to look like a real sig now.
Now you probably want a image into your signature.

In this tutorial a image is already provided. this image is already rendered, so there is no need for you to render one on your own.
Save the image to your computer to some place where you can find it again.
 

(or direct link: http://tinypic.com/evcqqc.png)

Open the image by pressing CTRL + O  (or in the top menu "File" => "Open" )

Now you have 2 windows opened at the same time, 1 with the signature in it, the other with the image.
At first, go to your signature and select the top brush layer. Now create a new layer here, so this new layer will be in between the top brush layer and the colour layers. This way, when we insert the image into the signature, it will be under the colour balance layers. Optionally you can create a new layer at the top of all layers and have this one selected, this way the image will be put on top (and will not have some colour overflow from the colour balance layers)

Go to the image window now can click on this tool:



Now just drag/drop the image into your signature. You will see the image is loaded into the signature now.
Click CTRL + T to get a selection box around the image so you can adjust the with and height.
In the top you also see this menu bar



when resizing the image, hold down SHIFT to make the with and height go in the same proportion (or click on the little chain in the menu bar)

for this tutorial i use these settings:
W:  55,0%
H:  55,0%

Just drag it to a nice spot in the signature. mine will look like this now:



Still having the image layer selected, press  CTRL  + J to make a copy of the image layer. now hide the newly created one (the one called copy) by clicking the little eye in front of the layer again.
Click on the original image layer again and in the top menu click on "Select" => "Load Selection". you will see the image is totally selected. now press CTRL + ALT + D you see a small window open where you can set a number. depending on the size of the image and the nr of detail in the image the nr must be bigger or smaller.
for this tutorial use the nr 7, and click OK.
You see the selection lines have been made smoother . After done this, go to the top menu and click on "Layer" => "Layer Mask" => "Reveal selection"
you will see the image more blending in with the signature now.

Click on layer where the copy of the image is in now, the one we have made invisible before, and make it back visible again.
After making it back visible, go in the top menu to "Filter" => "Blur" => "Gaussian blur" and make it some like 5 pixel radius, and hit OK.
you see the image get blurred. Now click with the right mouse button on the layer and select bleding options in the menu.



You will see a new window is getting opened. As i pointed out in red look at these settings, and set the "Blend mode" for this layer to "Soft light"



All the other functions in the left menu we wont be using for this layer. But again, feel free to experiment with them and see what it does to the signature. But we will get back to these settings later on.
The signature should be looking a bit like this now:



Ok, time to put in some text.
In this tutorial we will place the text underneath the colour balance layers, so select the last normal layer that's underneath the colour balance layers.
Click on the text tool button in the left menu.



Pick one of the fonts you like from the top menu. also the new fonts you have downloaded should be there too. (note, when you added a font after PS was started, you might need to restart PS to see it in the list)
Click somewhere in the image, and start writing the text you want. When the text is too big, choose a other font size, or resize the whole text the same way you resized the image.
you can also change the location of the text afterwards by using the movement tool you also used on placing the image.

Now its time to make the text look better than it already does. i'll just use some example on what is possible, but again, feel free to experiment on your own.

Fist select the text layer if it was not selected, and use the right mouse button on the layer again to goto the blending options.
You see the blending options window again, and this time in the left menu, click on the "inner shadow" you will see the options now that belong to the "inner shadow" the settings i use are shown in this image:



You will see the the looks of the text change.
Still in the blending options, click on the "outer glow" now. Again you see the settings that belong to this option. For this tutorial i will use these settings now:



Again the same i will do for the option "Bevel and emboss".
Here i just leave the settings alone, but when you are following this tutorial step by step (as you should be doing **wink** ) here are the settings so you can check if you have them the same:



Still in the Blending options menu, click on the option "Gradient Overlay" also here i wont change any of the settings, but you can check again according to this image



Now the text is done, so you can click the OK in the blending options to close the window and apply all the settings you just made.
The image will be looking like this now:



Done!

Dont forget to save the signature as psd file, and save it to a image type file too. for example .png

i hope this tutorial will help you in making signatures!
good luck!!

Wiki: Mobs that are named using the name tag will also not despawn in the world, similar to tamed mobs.[
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Name_Tag

I have had 3 mobs now that despawned in a place where they could not have been escaped.
Could it be this is not working in MP, or that this might be a new setting somewhere in the plugins as since 1.6.x ?

How to create ranks in your clan (needed to make clanbank work)

->Please note, the plugin is a bit buggy, so in come cases you cant delete a rank. Try not to use special characters or numbers in rank names or tags. Also avoid color codes! This will prevent any future problems.<-

When you look at your /clan roster
You will see everybody has the rank "none" so nobody has any rank.


To make a new rank:
/rank create PriorityNumer Tag Name
The priority number is just a fictional number that does nothing yet in the plugin. A good thing is to just pick a number between 1 and 10 where 1 is the highest rank and 10 lowest.
so for example to create a rank called member:
/rank create 10 member member

In most cases you just want to keep the rank tag and rank name the same.

So now you have made the rank, you can assign it.
To assign the rank to a player:
/rank assign Playername Rank

so for example: /rank assign 1869_Flame member


Alright!  you now know how to make ranks and how to assign them.

Clan bank
All clan members can deposit to the clan bank, and see the balance of it.
To let a clan member deposit to the clan bank, the player must write: /bank deposit Number
Where the number is the amount of money the player want to donate to the clan bank.
To check the balance of the clan bank, the player can write /bank balance

To be able to withdraw money from the bank, you will need to get your ranks set up. Even if you are the clan leader, you still need to set up a rank for yourself to be able to withdraw from the clan bank.

Assuming you made a rank called Member (see above on how to make ranks), you need to set the permission for that rank.
Only for the bank withdraw permission, there is a small bug with the plugin.
So this is how it works:
First you add the permission to that rank like this:
/rank setperm member bank.withdraw
When a member tests the withdraw now, it still says he does not have permission to use this withdraw command.
So, to get it working, just remove the permission again like this:
/rank removeperm member bank.withdraw


And this is where strange magic happens, when you removed it again from that rank, it actually works now.
Funny thing is, if you actually add the permission to the rank again, it prevents that rank again from using it.
Best to test your ranks before assigning them to a player.

It seems i cant see the full list at /clan roster.
Also i tried /clan roster <tag> <pagenr>  but it always shows page 1.

Im i doing it wrong? or is there a small bug here ?

~Fires~

Fires clan is recruiting new players, but we dont just take any players, please read below.

What skills are we looking for?
- Social and loyal player
- Good builder
- Fair and honest
- Willing to share ingame money with clan (No im not asking to share it all, just contribute to the clan some,and no, you dont get a refund if you leave the clan)

What are we not looking for?
- Clanhoppers (leaving the clan again within a month)
- Players only taking out of clan storage and not putting in
- Players that grief or steal
- Players that do not want to donate ingame money to the clan


So you think you are still subject of joining after reading this above ? Well read on..
What can we offer in the Fires clan?
Within this clan we are all free to build and work around the clan base. You are free to build your homes there and make any eyecandy around the clan base (normal server rules apply). All together we work on making the clan base bigger and turning it into a town, and from a town into a city (and so on).
Recources:
Clan storage:
There is a clan storage room that you are free to use. You are free to take stuff from the chests to use in your builds. Do note: Fair Use Policy applies here! So if you take stuff out, atleast be social and fair to be also putting stuff in, its all about taking and giving.
There is also a personal chests section here, as you might want to store enchanted stuff and diamonds for own use.
Spawners (Survival world):
-Iron golems - For iron (currently 16 spawners as that is the server limit, 250k for access, clan members only)
Connected to this iron golem farm, are also 8 natural spawing cells with villagers, for just a little extra kick in iron production.
-Creepers - This is the big exp farm, currently holds 8 creeper spawners that can take you from 0 to lvl 30 within aprox 5 minutes or less.
- Endermen farm in the nether currently has about 4 or 6 spawn rings. Could be more, but gets good spawn rates
- Blaze farm - 4 blaze spawners, and a button that uses some complex redstone to get them down to 1 or 2 hit kills.
- Natural pigmen farm/spawner - This spawner uses the natural spawning of the pigmen, and therefore will give you the exp for the netherworker job. Spawnrates are getting better, but needs more work to make it bigger.
- Natural ghast farm
- Slimespawner - Shared spawner with TCG clan, good for slimeballs.
- Cowspawner - Single cow spawner for food. might need an extra one for faster spawn rates
- Wither Skele farm. Just 2 skele spawners in the nether near the pigmen and ghast farms
- Normal skele farm, just for drops (doesnt give exp) has 3 spawners.


Wasteland world:
- We just started out with a base, so nothing much yet here
- 1 single spawner skele farm.


Beside that we offer farm grounds, animals, etc.
As you can see there is also still a lot of room for improvement and making stuff better.
After reading this all, and you think you will fit in this clan? Make an application in this topic
Do not make an application if you did not read all of the above, or you did not agree to it [/left]

it seems all my redstone keeps locking up on the server... it seems that it happens with every redstone (dust/repeaters/etc)
Is there any solution for this, as its breaking all my RS builds? 

Here an example of my mushroom farm that i trigger with a daytime sensor, with a small signal extender i let them get triggered for just a few sec and than let them already retract. But within just a few MC days, its all locked up again :/