Help:Images

This help page will provide instruction on how to add an image into an article.

Anti-aliasing
First, it would be better to choose the biggest resolution you can afford, and turn on the anti-aliasing. It can be found in the game advanced video options. It would look much better. Even if you computer can't follow, it does not really matter, since you are there to take pictures, not play seriously. Also, some graphic cars offer an override of the original game's resolution, which will look even better. For example, many sharp edges, such as the ones seen in trees or metal fences still look quite "ugly" without an override.

Do your best to provide screenshots where the related subject can clearly be identified. Don't crop too much, it is always better to clearly see the context surrounding the subject. Try to be as artistic as possible, it cannot kill this wiki to provide good-looking screenshots.

One more thing: if you want to provide screenshots for general settings without insisting on Gordon's presence, you can hide the HUD ("cl_drawhud 0"), the crosshair ("crosshair 0") and the weapons ("impulse 200") with the console. Use also "noclip" to have a better freedom of movement, "god" to be safe from possible crossfire or a great drop when you disable "noclip", and also "notarget", so that everyone (except perhaps Alyx) ignores you. That makes you practically invisible, you can take all the pictures you want without being bothered. See these examples of an empty screen: example 1, example 2. You can also use Hammer for that, but choosing the in-game way can be more flexible.

File formats
Prefer JPG for these files, especially if they are really big. The PNG quality for screenshots is uselessly too high.

Custom games
Also, do not take screenshots from customized/tweaked canon games, like FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod or FPS Banana offers. Prefer the original models and textures, the only canon render.

Models
In-game models are often better to help understanding how this NPC, weapon, technology device, etc. works. It does not really matter.

Covers
Unless you can find a better resolution, all covers are ok for now.

Logos
If you want to upload game logos from the game files or anywhere else, it would be better if they were in PNG. Also, if a SVG version is available, it is much better.

Uploading
All pictures should be uploaded to the Half-Life site by using this page, Special:Upload (You have to have an account and be logged in to upload an image.

'''Warning: do NOT upload images that do not have anything to do with this wiki, which is not an image repository; they will be deleted. However this does not apply to user images (to be used only on your userpage): however the information template is also mandatory for them.'''

After Uploading
After the upload, add under the picture the Template:Information. It is mandatory.

Simplest Form


Above is an image of Civil Protection. To put your own image into an article you just need to add this code:



Standard Image Format
However the above code offers no formating options and so all images should follow the Wiki image markup language. The wiki markup language will only work if no capital letters are used. Most images on Half-Life should follow this Wiki format:

This code will create the image to the right. Looking at the code above we can see that:


 * Logo.jpg is the image file name. When you upload a file a different name will be given to when you use this page to upload a file
 * thumb: Using "thumb" forces the creation of a thumbnail or smaller picture.
 * Location : 'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page.
 * Caption : The image should always have a short description which would replace the "Example image caption" text on your image

Advanced Image Formating
Options can be combined, and vertical bars ("|") are used to separate options from each other. The options can be put in any order. An unknown option is taken as the caption text, but this seems to appear only if thumb is specified. If there are two or more unknown options, the last one upstages the rest.

Here is the description of the options other than the caption text:


 * right : Pick up that can2.jpg image is right-aligned, and text floats to the left of the image:  Pick up that can2.jpg  (shown on the right).
 * left : Pick up that can2.jpg image is left aligned, and text floats to the right of the image:  Pick up that can2.jpg  (shown on the left).
 * center : The image is centered, and...Pick up that can2.jpg text following the image starts below it:  Pick up that can2.jpg  (shown above).
 * none : The image is put at the left, and...Pick up that can2.jpg text following does not float to the right (or to the left, obviously), and starts below it:  Pick up that can2.jpg </tt> (shown above).
 * sizepx</tt> : Pick up that can2.jpg option renders a version of the image that's [size] pixels wide (e.g.  [[Image:D-Halo.jpg|right|50px|]] </tt> shown on the right). Height is computed to keep aspect ratio (i.e. the shape of the image)

Last Vertical Bar Law
What is between the last vertical bar and the closing brackets ("]]"), void or not, is taken as the last option, and works as usual. For instance, when the last option is right</tt>, the image is right-aligned, and text floats to the left:  </tt> (shown on the right).

In particular, if the last option is the void text (that is, if there is nothing between the last vertical bar and the closing brackets), the caption is not displayed:  </tt> (shown on the left) and   </tt> (shown on the right).

Frame option
If you specify a "frame" option the image will not be scaled, and no size specifiers will be in the HTML. The image will be rendered at full size


 * frame</tt> : Pick up that can2.jpg this option, the embedded image is shown with its actual size enclosed by a frame, regardless of the "thumb" or "size" attribute, and the caption, if any, is visible in the frame. Without the options left</tt>, center</tt>, and none</tt>, the image is normally on the right:  Pick up that can2.jpg </tt>.

Inline Images
With none of the options other than sizepx</tt> and alternate (caption) text</tt>, an embedded image is rendered inline.

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Image with caption in the center
Use  

For example,   produces a caption in the center . However, this syntax is not recommended for long captions (for example, captions involving long, descriptive sentences running more than one line), for which the regular image syntax should be used. You can also specify the color of the border, like "border:solid grey".

Linking to the image description page
If you want to make a link to the description page for an image, use a leading colon before "image:" in an intra-wiki link, like this: STS-32 crew which yields: STS-32 crew

Image galleries
To make a gallery of Images you can use the following code:

Notice that there are no brackets except for links within captions. Captions are optional. Images are separated by new lines.

Categories
Please add the proper category below the image you upload. Most common categories can be found here. If it does not exist, create it, but be really sure it does not exist!