Forum update and submissions

1. Any portrait love? or is that considered under custom gfx?

I'll add the portrait option. I had forgot about them

2. I know Graphics Gale lets you save palettes. Any chance we can get a palette upload portion?

No direct upload on our server. However, FF3se (characters sprite editor) let you export/import palettes in binary format. The sprite sheet URL could be a link to a zip file containing the sheet, portrait, .bin palette file and a .txt readme, not only an image link. That could be an option. I'll try to find a way to be more clear on that.

Palettes files in other format are a bit unnecessary as FF3usME import directly the palette from the image [assuming you respect the palette color order, I think... :~/]

3. Is there any way that the display page for the sprites can have a different color, other than the blue that's in game?

The default them blue is #284078 while the (dark) blue Locke wears is #213963. That IS close, good point. I could put the sprite sheet in a white filled frame, though a lot of sprites uses white but all of them have a black outline... One thing is sure I'm not going for something like a flashy pink frame like you see as the bg color of some ripped sprites.

on that note, is there an option to change the Forum colors around? like maybe have a preset number of forum 'themes' that members could choose from their user cp?

Until the update, there's a grey and FFIV DS theme (look in UserCP -> Edit Options). After the update, I'll bring back the grey theme and could easily add other colors combinations. The changes needed to do so are relatively minimal for each new theme, assuming I keep the same layout. The FFIV DS them is dying with the update, as it is not really good looking.

Like a "view style" type of thing that changes the backgounds and maybe fonts. (would be neat to have the option of the different window skins from base!game. Just a thought, don't know how practical that is.)

Changes of Fonts that have same size letters (on same font-size) could work, but otherwise some component (like an image next of a link) are sometimes set to the pixel. I guess I could experiment with some other font maybe a font changing option for the whole forum (excluding header/titles in specific fonts) would be possible.

Right now the whole forum is in Verdana (except code block and a few minor exceptions). I tried Open-Sans and Roboto, and opted for the first once. There's also some headers and text in ChronoType and (modern) Chicago.

Different windows skins could work, though I'm not font of all vanilla FF6 windows skins. I would probably rather add a few nice RPG themes, like one from CT. But this means having image borders for all skins that have not straight (or rounded corners) outline because it can't really be mimicked in CSS. I was able to remove the image borders in the update because the default theme consist of rounded corner grey-shaded lines. Image borders suck.

Weirdly enough, I didn't watch The Neverending Story as a kid, only when I was 15+ years old.

That does count, Gi Nattak watched it for the first time a few months ago and had no idea the movie existed prior to that.