From Pca Central

I will admit that I haven't been all that terribly helpful with creating a means to make the whole profile template thing easier to use. So what I'll do is make a fully-wikified and piccified FAQ for you nice people to make use of. The task is just too huge for one or even a few people, but if you all can update your own info and add as needed, it'll make things much, much easier.

DECISION ONE: Student or Team?

The big thing to note is whether or not you're doing just one kid or laying out an entire team since, well... different templates.

Student!

1) Cool. Okay, what grade? Keep this in mind, because a PC generally has 4 moves per school year, and this ties into how the templates work.

We're going to assume that you only need one line per grade.

Freshman!

This is where I break shit down. The template for 1-line profiles is PCA_PC1.

• headerlast: This is the last name, and JUST the last name.

• headerfirst: This is the first name and any middle and nicknames. For Example, Wrex has Rex "Wrex" in this spot.

• fullname: The full name.

• teamname: If the PC is on a team, this is where the teamname goes. Place the name inside the ( ) bits to make it italicised! If they're an indie, just leave this totally blank.

• pcpicture: The PC's picture! You can put whatever picserver link there. The general proportions for pictures is 120x150. If you don't have a picture, put the following in that spot instead: http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p84/darkheartone/placeholder.jpg

• teamlogo: Team logo! Same dimensions as for the PC pic, please. No teampic, or you're an indy? Use: http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p84/darkheartone/placeholder.jpg

• gender: Full word for gender, please.

• species: Obvious. Capitalize, please.

• height: Put in x' y" format (or if you're a screwy European, metric is fine). If you dunno or don't care, just use n/a or ???.

• age: Oh come on. This is easy.

• weight: Use pounds if you can, silly kilos if you must. n/a and ??? works as per height.

• schoolyear: Just place a number for how many years they've 'been around'. Even for newbies, 1 is alright. With how time works in the PCA, this basically how many grades they've been in the school for. Or something.

• likes: This is where the likes go. Try not to overdo it.

• hates: Dislikes here. Again, no overdoing it.

• ability: The mon's ability name.

• abilitydesc: The description of the ability.

Okay, this is the crunchy parts come up. Pay close attention.

• tag1: This is the number that shows up on the left-hand side of the movelist row, covering the first four moves. For pretty much all profiles, this should be 1.

• move1: The name of the first move. Simple enough.

• m1type1: This is the URL for the element gif image. It's pretty simple stuff, as the URL is http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p84/darkheartone/(element).gif. Like, for instance, grass attacks should be http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p84/darkheartone/grass.gif. Should the move in question be Curse, use http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p84/darkheartone/curse.gif

• m1type2: This is the URL for the gif that denotes if the move is physical, special or other. The URL is http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p84/darkheartone/PCA_(type).gif. Replace (type) with physical, special or other accordingly.

From this point on out, you fill out the remaining three in like manner, instead using gradually progressing the numbers until you're up to move4, m4type1 and m4type2. It basically works like this for the others, only the number extends to 16 (or potentially 20).

• pcinfo: This is where you can place character bios and such. With how templates work, if you need to do more than one paragraph, insert <br><br> between the end of the first paragraph and the start of the next. If you don't have anything, just leave it blank.

• relations: This is where your relationship-type peoples go. Family and all that.

Anyway, the above picture produces...

	Bork (Team Bork)
	Sex:	Bork	Species:	Bork
	Height:	Bork	Age:	Bork
	Weight:	Bork	School Year:	Bork
	Likes:	Bork	Hates:	Bork
Bork - Bork.
MOVES 1 Bork Bork Bork Bork
Relations: Bork