A new feature has arrived to reduce the amount of clicking required to publish your work:
Project Templates!
Templates vary between art, audio, movies and games but include common values like Category, Rating, Creative Commons License and other project-specific details.
There are two ways you can set up a template:
- On an existing project details form, once you have edited values on the form you will see a prompt at the bottom of the page that says “Would you like to create a template from this project?” Click the “Create Template” button, review the settings, give it a name and click “Save Template.” You can also check a box to make it your default template.
- Via your Account Settings page, under Projects, click Project Templates. This page will have options for Art, Audio, Game and Movie. Clicking one of these categories will show a list of your existing templates, or go to the New Template form if none exist.
On the New Project form, you’ll see a template selection dropdown at the top, if templates exist.
If you’ve set a template as your default, the form will default to that template. The template dropdown will go away once you begin editing the form, so choose a template before doing anything else. This might be updated later to allow you to apply a template at any time, even if it overwrites your current form data.
This update also fixes the issue in the Art Portal where if you filled out your CC license and clicked “Preview” instead of “Publish”, it lost your CC license data because the form wasn’t auto-saving every detail. Every item on the form should now auto-save when edited.
Everyone thank @PsychoGoldfish for this update!
Additionally, @liljim fixed a bug with scheduled publishing, if you ever received that “Suitability error” message when your art project tried to publish.
Update: Another fix went live today to address pixel art that didn't allow you to zoom in extra close in fullscreen mode.
We have an ongoing bug where image uploads via the text editor often fail to work properly. We’re still working towards the fix for this one. If you are having issues with this, try uploading the image via the in-page author commentary editor, via this pencil button here:
Thank you as always to our Supporters, who make this ongoing work possible! More Supporters would be a big help as we move into 2024 and costs continue to climb.
If you experience any project system bugs, PM me and explain what is going wrong, with steps to recreate the issue if possible. Please include your browser and OS information.
Other News
NG Meetup: January 5th is the NG Meetup at Anime Los Angeles, hosted by @QueenBoo and @Xeno-Cowboy!
Secret Santa registration is now closed.
November 30th is the BBS Awards Nomination deadline.
December 6th is the Music Secret Santa registration deadline.
December 8th is the Gogo’s Crazy Bones Collab deadline.
December 11th is The Sweet Sixteen Comic Contest deadline, with $1k in prizes!
December 20th is the NGTV Christmas Collab deadline.
January 15th is the Break It Up Collab breakbeat audio deadline.
January 30th is the Kamen Rider Collab deadline.
February 28th is the LISA Campfire Collab and Transformers Collab deadline.
Slushydojo is organizing a Nickelodeon Collab.
Most of the slots are filled but we're still taking applications for our Drawing Tablet giveaway.
