Alright... So, I've been getting into jcink skinning as you can tell by my gallery page. There's just one thing that stands in my way defiantly. The bleep bleep, bleeping html templates. I don't understand them. at all.

Do they just work like webpages, kinda sorta in the sense that like I can just make a thing in html and it'll do the thing all over the board once I mess with the css? How do I go about utilizing grid and the little <!--|thingies|-->? I've scoured the internet for some sort of guide that isn't from the jcink wiki and came up with bubkis, or if I did find something it was dated and not very helpful.

What I need is a bit of time 1 on 1 with someone who knows way more than me and is patient enough to walk me through what the hell I'm supposed to do with them. Or at least some basic explanations and open to some questions.

Halp please. I cry.

A Note

Worked on enough coding for it. And I'm attempting to skin for it anyways... So might as well test the waters here. Also also, apologies for this not being in a super pretty template. Proboards Templates are hard af yo.

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Oh the places you'll go
The site will have a main location known as the City of Resonance, a city built on top of an ancient Nexus point caused by the vibrational resonance between all of the realms and everything in between. Beyond that the site will have the Underworld; (Inferno), the Overworld (Paradisio), The human World (Purgatorio) each with their own locations within with plenty of things to do.

Things to do
Bounty Missions are in character missions that you're character can take on which involve some sort of task. Think of them like quests really. Typically they'll involve hunting a demon, laguna, or enemy of some kind which is run by staff. Complete the bounty to claim things like extra orbs, special items or weapons for your characters, etc.

Escape Limbo Limbo is a realm between the human and demon realm. It's unique because it is alive, prescient, and It has a very nasty habit in Resonance City of pulling people into it and slowly feeding off of their souls. Random event that will happen occasionally, one or more players and their characters will be randomly selected for a thread with the single win condition; Escape.

Multiple Storylines will be available in all three realms (Paradisio, Purgatorio, Inferno)

Mechanics
My Devil Trigger isn't going to have any kind of classical power systems or structures in place that are enforced. The games are all about stylishly kicking the crap out of your enemies, collecting points to unlock cool stuff, then using that stuff to kick the crap out of your enemies even more stylishly and we're very much going to try and follow that trend.

Items and Weapons
Players can collect in game items such as devil arms, angel weapons, accessories. While these weapons/items don't provide any quantified stats they do come with their own nifty abilities that can potentially be passed on to the characters. Example: A character possessing and wielding a fire based devil arm now having the ability to use fire based attacks in their posts.

Arsenal System
Based off of the weapon selection menu in the Devil May Cry games. The Arsenal System will be a very loose inventory system where a player choses any devil arms/weapons that their characters have collected before entering a thread and only using those selected weapons in the thread should the need arise. Typically Arsenal System mechanics will only be enforced during Bounty Missions and Escape RPs, otherwise it's an optional system that runs parallel with the site.

The Gates of Hell
The Gates of Hell is a bar in a pocket dimension upkept by the Ancient One, Rodin. It acts as a secondary site shop where you can trade in your orbs (points) for items and weapons. Specifically Devil Arms. But there's more, you can roleplay there and potentially find yourself taking on a contract or two from Rodin himself.

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When would this open? I'm currently skinning the site on my own and am still very much a noob with coding, let alone jcink skinning. I'm also juggling doing this while helping with another site, and also going through a move. So it might be a while unless none of you care about a barebones site or there are potentially people who want to help.

Do you want/need help? Desperately, like not so desperate that I'm begging, but there are definitely things that I'm completely at a loss for when it comes to coding (like light/dark mode and making the site and elements mobile friendly), and the jcink platform in general. If you want to lend a hand I'm cool with being randomly messaged on the discords or PM'ed on the site.

Is there a discord? Nope, at least not yet. Currently focused on getting the boards up first. So stay tuned I guess and once a discord does become a thing then I'll drop a link in this thread.

Is it going to be premium / 3-3-3? Not at first, currently moving and moving means getting a new job and while I'm currently employed now, money is t-i-g-h-t at the moment. It's one of the biggest reasons why I'm undertaking the skinning and coding by myself. But the plan is in fact to get to a point where the site is jcink premium. That being said the age limit is going to be 18+ regardless. We'll just have to make due with a 2-2-2 site rating for a while.

How does this even work? Because I've been curious about it for a while now. Being able to not have to spend a million years and just as many words on shit like history, appearance, and etc seems nice. But how do you go about judging if a character does or doesn't have the capability to completely take a dump on lore, or power levels etc?

side nav menu with dropdowns for a potential guidebook nav

Was working on a thing for the guidebook and thought the idea would be cool to have this on a site. So I followed a youtube tutorial and viola(or whatever).




If ya'll want it or can improve it then be my guest:

link to codepen

Also there's this mini profile thingy

link to miniprofile thingy

There is some sort of coding demon that people are secretly selling their souls to in order to understand how to skin a jcink forum and they're not hookin' a brother up and it makes me sad. 

I'll likely DM you eventually if that's cool. I'm still wishy washy on the idea and I'd at least rather have some things set up first like typing out lore information and stuff.



I may very well make a genuine interest check then, just to test the waters a little and not take away from this thread. But to answer your question, neither game really has level scaling in it, it's all about wracking up points and then buying abilities for weapons and styles you unlock throughout the game. So some sort of point shop with small things like Bounties and Secret Missions that award points. Then those points can be used to unlock stuff. Like skills, or styles, Devil arms, weapons, or other things. Would have to figure it all out and I would definitely make it more in line with the games.

My biggest hang up right now is the whole, what goes where in terms of html and have it all line up correctly with of all the <% thing %>'s and <!--|other things|-->

The longer it stays in my head, the more I want to make a combined Bayonetta x Devil May Cry site. I'd be 50% of the way there if I just knew how to transfer my random coding scribbles to an actual jcink forum.

Yeah, thankfully I have loads of experience running my fair share of devil may cry sites. (circa 2009, 2012, 2014) It's just a matter of this will not get out of my brain. Thank you for the feedback ^_^

should be working on things for the site I currently have, not coding things for an imaginary site just to see if I can...

So you ever been stricken by the urge to make something for sites but just don't have the time or want to waste the effort in building, advertising, and running a site?

That's where I'm at. Right now I've only got mock ups and designs, and some of the things I'm making in coding just to see what I can actually do and stuff. Though all of this is going to be screenshots. Feel free to leave comments or whatever.

site mock up for a devil my cry site: - light / dark mode


mobile mock up of skin


Posting template for imaginary site



header and nav bar for imaginary site - still needs more work tho. margins for the little diamonds need to be tweaked to fit better, would like to do a transparent gradient overlay on the picture in the big diamond. Just got to figure out how.



Board layout - specifically the getting started area. Essentially it would be a category, and the diamonds would be boards in that category. margins are wonky, haven't figured out how to fix yet.

Been fighting off the urge for a while to make a new Devil May Cry roleplay site. 

Edit: Making a mock up skin has not appeased the urge one bit.
album of the skin

If ya'll are still taking requests... Could it be possible to get icons for these characters?:

• Touji Fushiguro - Jujitsu Kaisen
• Himeko Murata - Honkai Impact / Honkai Star Rail
• Yoo Joonghyuk - Omniscient Reader's viewpoint
• Hizuru Minakata - Summertime Render