MUGEN Database:Character articles

(Psst, this page is pretty much an edit of the Pokémon Articles article)

This page's purpose is to show editors how to make a 'good looking' article on any character. For a direct tutorial on making Pokémon articles, see this article.

Layout
Articles have got to follow some form of layout, yes? Otherwise it's just text on a page. Here's the simple layout character articles should follow:

1. Infobox

2. First line of text

3. Second line of text

4. In M.U.G.E.N...

5. Gameplay section including stats, movelists and palette galleries

6. Videos

7. Categories

Character Infobox
First comes the infobox ( in this case). Image should .png unless it has to be .jpg. If resizing the image, remember to save as .png - it's small, and there's no quality loss. The caption beneath the image should say something like "Artwork from *insert media here*", "x as he appears in *insert media here*, "x's portrait", "x's idle animation", etc.

The rest is pretty straight forward (so straight forward, I'm going to put it as a list):
 * Creator(s) = who made it. Remember to use  between creator names of different versions of the character. If there is more than four creators, just put "Various".
 * Download = a link to where the character can be downloaded. If there are multiple versions of a character, the put them in the same order as the creators and separate them via the  tag. If there is one link, put the name of the website the link...links to (ie, Mediafire), but if there is more than one, put the creator's name and "Version" (ie, GarchompMatt's Version).
 * Origin = where the character originates from (don't be precise, such as the game/episode it appeared in, just do it as a whole series).

Here's an example of a character that's been made by one creator:



Here's an example of a character that's been made by more than one creator:



First line of text
The first line should start with the character's name, age, gender (if he/she/it has one), etc. Basic stuff just to introduce the reader to the article:



Second line of text
Now for a few lines of more in depth information such as powers, habitat (lol?), behaviour, etc. (REMEMBER this is NOT a direct Wiki about particular series, so don't go piling down information that goes too deep into the series!):



Third line of text
This line should include some form of description saying who made it for M.U.G.E.N. If there are two people that made different versions of the character, end it there and continue to 'Gameplay'. If there is only one version of the character, give a basic description on what the character looks like and how it attacks.

Here's an example of a character that's been made by one creator:



Here's an example of a character that's been made by more than one creator:



Here's an example of a character that's been made by various creators:



Gameplay
First off, if there are more than one different versions of the character, instead of putting gameplay, put that name of the creator followed by the name of the character (ie GarchompMatt's Rotom).

Underneath your gameplay heading, put the idle animation of the character and a "review" of sorts about the M.U.G.E.N character stating good/bad points about it (mainly about gameplay-effecting factors). Underneath that, put a sub-heading of 'Stats', which is pretty much self-explanatory.

This is a BIG section. Underneath the character's stats, put another sub-heading of 'Movelist'; this should consist of a key (which can be quickly imported in the article via ) and the animations of any specials/hypers the character has (when an attack has multiple animations for it (e.g. a startup animation), you use the animation that has a red/yellow hitbox somewhere in it); don't forget to put the activation method of the move and how much power it uses (when putting them into the article, put them in order, so that D (down) is first, then F (forward), then B (backwards) (if there is an attack the uses U (up), then that would come after B), next comes a, then b, then c, then x, then y and z). On a side note, dispite if you might think otherwise, you need to put the  exact  name of the move (that includes whether it be in full capitals or not, or have spelled incorrectly).

Overall, the gameplay section should like similar to this (excuse the old image):

Palette Gallery
This is again pretty self-explanatory. You need to create an image gallery and add the palettes of the character, you should also put some text underneath the images that tells the reader what the name (the  exact  name) of the pallete is, and (if any) a relation to the character, such as a palette being a Pokémon's 'shiny' colouration, or it being the colour scheme of say, Ryu. It should look something like this:

''' YOU'RE ALMOST DONE, BUT YOU WILL NEED TO REPEAT THE WHOLE GAMEPLAY SECTION IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE VERSION OF THE CHARACTER!!! '''

Videos
This is the final heading you will need to do (isn't that great!). All you need to do here is place a video into the article...simple! Keep in mind that if you only use one video, don't use a video gallery. If you use more than one video, then you use a video gallery. Maximum of four videos per article please.

Categories
ALWAYS use !!! The rest of the categories differ from article to article - take a gander at the subcategories of Category:Characters for a list of all of our character-related categories.

Congratulations, you've (hopefully) created a professional looking article about a character!