PS3 Battlefield Sig

Both of these are totally just prototype graphics.




I first tested putting the username as part of the SNR logo. I now don't feel this is that pretty so will stick to my original name on the dogtag as with the second example. I'm also going to include both rank, country of origin and fav kit on the primary dog tag. The secondary dogtag will include the text like on battle log (so many blah blahs). Both dogtags will be taken from your profile as of last synchronisation. Both signatures may also include "top medal" as shown but I'll have to come up with a blank medal for those still working towards their first.

Stats wise the intention is to inlude the following :
hours played
score per minute
kill/death
win/loss
number of headshots
longest headshot
(maybe longest handheld headshot)
(maybe global accuracy)
number of service stars
number of medals

The right will keep the top 3 weapons and top sidearm details similar to my prior signature but also include the number of service stars received for that weapon.

Personally I prefer the second one as I feel it's more visually appealing with the logo resting on the left 3rd and it has the ability to include more stats in a nicer format. The top one with the logo in the centre feels a bit discordant and unbalanced which isn't the impression I'd like to give for a signature that is going to be used as clan advertising around the net.

Abs

EDIT : In fact, yeah I'm gonna go with the second one but do please comment with regards stats to include exclude xx

EDIT EDIT : May need a slight redesign as rotating a dogtag forces the system to ignore it's set dimensions. Please hold caller.

EDIT EDIT EDIT : I maybe doing the first one, waiting on more comments.

 

Suicides isn't a stat that's available and the dogtag count is completely bugged and has been since the title launched and it would seem they've no intention of fixing it. I was trying to include global information rather than weapon specific stuff like number of C4 kills.

Font size is an issue as space is limited to begin with. It's a fight with imparting information and allowed signature sizes across the net. 'we're and others are 550x125 @ 100Kb but the official Sony forums are 600 x don't take the piss @ <75Kb!

More testing makes the logo based name something that's being relegated to a second sig as it snarls the logo up and requires a bit of work to rebuild the logo so that it expands and contracts dependant upon the username.

I'll be including the count next to the medal and the service stars. A short name maybe achievable over the medal I'll look into it.

Further testing has also pulled up a snag for certain. I cannot scale the tags if they are rotated so they're slightly bigger than originally designed for. So here's the above prototypes tweaked and a third moving the logo to the far left. Tweaks include a smaller logo on the centred one to make room for the extra size of the dogtags.





Why the tags? I like the idea of being able to have your own personalised tags as part of a custom signature and makes the signature a bit more unique than the generic stats sigs that abound the net.

 

Do you mean all info on left, logo biased right with the tags hanging off the logo's right hand side? E.g. a shuffle round of #3 above?

EDIT :

 

My reason for trying to keep it as one sig is that it'll climb the ranks on the bfstats site which should help to generate hits to the site for us rather than us all having our individual versions which detracts from each others rank and not gaining us the free advertising.

What tickles me is that as I was one of the first to get to grips with the BF3stats code from BFBC2stats I see bits of the code that I used on that OAP sig all over the place. Variable naming nuances and specific ways that I laid sections out. One of the things I did was to unify the layout of the sections using a reference x,y and I see my variable names of the base co-ords used all over.

It seems we all want different things and I've had an idea. We could have a base sig but modify the code based on the username. So Ace doesn't want handgun and wants C4. Col will likely want top weapon, top vehicle, top medal. So let's get settled on a layout scheme we like.

JK, If we put the tags behind the stats then they may as well not be there as it'll just generate visual noise and make the stats harder to read. I did toy with that idea though using the advanced tags image as an overall background base for the sig, huge like.

Finally, this is a full list of exactly what we have available to us. Pulling top vehicle, top air, top gun, etc is relatively easy to do on an individual basis the problem is the formatting of the output data. Ace's C4 is an easy replacement to the handgun but replacing the 3 guns with top air vehicle, top ground vehicle will require more coding as it's a layout change from 3 to 2.

EDIT : nice idea Herm, looks nice as well as the stats will be in a gold frame and we could partially obscure the tags under the right edge. I'll get on it later.

EDIT EDIT : Missed this link to the full available stats : http://api.bf3stats.com/ps3/player/?player=HaloJ&output=sig

 

Herman's suggestion



Which from a multi user formatting perspective works rather well as we've got one finite area for data rather than two either side of the logo.