What's New on Defiance Data - January Week #3

We started keeping track of all of our changes in December 2014 in our What's New. We want to inform you weekly about the changes we made to Defiance Data, featuring some of our bigger tasks in a week.

This week our biggest changes have been:

• New Layout of the front page
• Model Viewer updates
• Article about Game Changes to Defiance in 2015
• A lot of more changes

New Layout of the Front Page

 

Etaew has been working a lot on a new layout this week. What did he change in particular?

• We added Icons to the Nav Bar
• Section summaries with quick links to most visited pages
• Cut down activity feed to three activities
• News Feed now features Dev Posts alongside published News Articles
• We're experimenting with a new tall banner to the right of the site
• We moved the main wide ad banner above the nav bar, and moved a condensed version of the donations box alongside it.

These changes are not yet finished as we're experimenting with some of these changes.

Updates to the Model Viewer

 

 The Model Viewer has undergone a lot of changes again.

• We changed the layout of the Model Viewer to now list three entries per row
• Model Viewer now shows where is used on (if available)
• There's also a warning if no texture exists
• "Other usages" button links to other races/genders using the same model
• Outfits and Headgear now appear with default head based on race and gender

Game Changes to Defiance in 2015

An article we're maintaining featuring new features, bug fixes and game changes made to Defiance throughout 2015. This article is growing with every new patch, so check back periodically to catch up with what's changed.

Rest of Week #3

• Tooltips now are unaffected by their owners element styles, they also now follow the mouse movement and will intelligently reposition if they reach the end of a page. They will also no longer show on the navigation bar.
• Fixed an issue where pages couldn't be searched by titles and only by contents
• Adjusted the design again to include the main ad banner to be the navigation bar, moved the donation prompt to be alongside it. Cut down the recent activity to 3 entries and experimenting with a ad banner with a greater height.
• Added variation of Ego Grid with perk icons and names the browser search can find
• Added Devil's Carnival Filter on Outfits and Headgear DB
• The Stats Page now lists monthly stat summaries going back to March 2014
• Model Viewer (NPCs) now tries to find an appropriate preview image.
• Patches now lists 25 results up from 10 as well as displaying short summaries
• Improved speed of dev tracker, Morgana, Rashere, Kiwibird and Phantasie are now checked at a minimum every 5 minutes each, so 20 minutes for a full cycle of the main posters
• Marked Cronkhite Post Mod Vendor to not be in-game anymore
• Sorting Vendors for Factions will now show all available faction vendors
• Tarr Traxx Map Markers now use the Tarr Symbol as Icon
• Added Map for Tarr Traxx Crates (work in progress)
• Search results now have a pagination section at the bottom of the table as well
• Fixed an issue with the search results duplicating the previous last result as the first result on the next page
• Updated Tarr Family Vendor Items
• Faction Bribes have been added to Lockboxes DB
• Made changes to the Nano Effects guide (again) pulling information out of the condensed table into a full article format.
• Silicon Valley Invasions Guide has been published and added to the Nav bar Guides->Encounters
• Added 148 Models to Models DB of various world and ground objects
• Shields DB now generates tooltips
• Chimera Claw, EXL Brief Candle and EXL Darkest Hour added to Shields DB
• Individual Locations now list the conflict site that is located at them. Example
• Pursuits Index Page got a better navigation and an updated layout
• APS Courier has been added to our Weapon DB
• Added Special Delivery Filter in Appearance DB
• Models can be saved as images by right-clicking on them