Organization Sandbox for images in comments

@EL797 - credit goes to you! Very clever of you to notice that attachments to forum messages result in having their own dedicated URLs.

In other words, if a picture is attached here and subsequently clicked on, then the URL to that picture can be used with the Image button to attach it now to a Level comment. No more need for external accounts (like Imgur).

 

An edit of Hidden Places 2 for use in my level creation help thread...

Spoiler: Image

Picture of accidental brawl in La Resistance for comment

Spoiler: Image

 

The point of this thread is to use it as an alternative to Imgur (and Google Drive that I don't think works in any case).

 

You actually can embed Google Drive images; you need to get the direct link to the image itself. There's probably a way to get it yourself, but one way is to use a site like https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/.

Spoiler: Example

 

Figured it out; you can get the ID from the link and use the format https://drive.google.com/uc?id=YOUR-ID. Essentially, replace `/file/d` with `uc?id=` and remove the parts after the ID.

Spoiler: Before

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10tapf39ig3jD-tBVJ1tdHPEYIsQ-Wc56/view?usp=drivesdk

Spoiler: After

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=10tapf39ig3jD-tBVJ1tdHPEYIsQ-Wc56

(You may need to add export=view to the query string if you're embedding it on one of your websites or something, but this seems to work fine on the forum)

 

There is an "Upload a File" button next to "Post Reply" which you can use to upload an image. I'm not sure what you mean about generating BB code; if you want to embed it on a forum post, you can simply upload it there directly and press "Full Image".

If you want to use it on a comment in the Levels subforum, you can upload it here then get the link and embed it just like you tried to embed your Google Drive link.

 

Yes, but if you want to embed an image, you can simply press the image icon next to the smiley face in the editor and enter the URL. If you really want to use BBCode manually, I think the format is:

Code:

[IMG]https://drive.google.com/uc?id=10tapf39ig3jD-tBVJ1tdHPEYIsQ-Wc56[/IMG]

Spoiler: Test

By the way, please hide big images in spoilers or simply don't embed the full image (as you did with your latest comment) so it doesn't take up so much viewing space.

Yes, that's the point of this thread; you can upload an image here, then get the link and embed it in level comments.

 

You did not hide the screenshot of the LinkPicture app in this thread; will you edit it to put it in a spoiler or shall I?

Generally, you would not use Google Drive; the whole point of this thread is to avoid using external image hosts such as Google Drive.

If you really do want to use Google Drive, just get the regular link and follow my instructions above. But again, you generally would not want to do this. If you continue to have problems with it and need further help, please let me know why exactly you want to use it over this thread.

 

I have deleted many uploads, but as far as I can tell, you just do not have permission to view the levels.

Although there is one interesting case where I deleted the album but the media itself isn't marked as deleted as well, but other levels are marked as both. I don't remember if I just manually deleted the other levels separately as well as the album.