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forum link: forum #200361 - Advanced Tag/Wiki discussion: Optics (Jul. 2016)

General macroforum for optical tags and metatags and their respective wiki entries

I'll update this OP with all the relevant links soon

If you know of any relevant optics forums, feel free to link them in here, thanks!

(Just the url is fine)

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Topics addressed so far:

Useful links:

• tag group:optics (WIP)

Links to other discussions:

• forum #150538 - Tag Alias: looking -> invalid_tag (Manually Created) (Jan. 2015)

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1 looking_* tags: standard format?

There are a few directional looking_* tags out there, should they have a standard format?

• looking_away
• looking_down
• looking_up

• looking_to_side

This mainly is about the last one,

should it be looking_aside or looking_sideways?

• looking_diagonally?

looking_to_side is the clearest of the 3, imo

• looking_to_side
• looking_left
• looking_right ?

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looking_left + looking_right are also options, but I suspect they don't currently exist because:

• there's no definite way to know left/right is from relative to the character, or the viewer's screen
• people hardly tag optics tags anyway

1b. There's also (TMK) no parent tag for the looking* subtags:

• looking
• looking_[direction]
• looking_up
• looking_down
• [..]
• looking_at_[something]
• looking_at_viewer
• looking_at_penis
• looking_at_pussy
• etc.

2. looking invalidation

IIRC, looking was invalidated because any character with eyes is presumably looking somewhere

Which makes a lot of sense when considering humanoid body types; however:

• eyeless
• headless

Not to mention all the various non-humanoid configurations and anatomy out there

Should it be un-invalidated?

3. Various aliases/standardizations of tags (not format)

Just cleaned out looking_between_legs and moved that -> looking_through_legs

Should there be an alias here?

looking_between_legs <- -> looking_through_legs

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Personally, 'between' sounds better to me, since 'through' could imply the leg is translucent-transparent
(if we're being pedants about semantics)

There's a looking_at_partner tag

post #680970

titanmelon said:

3. Various aliases/standardizations of tags (not format)

Just cleaned out looking_between_legs and moved that -> looking_through_legs

Should there be an alias here?

looking_between_legs <- -> looking_through_legs

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Personally, 'between' sounds better to me, since 'through' could imply the leg is translucent-transparent
(if we're being pedants about semantics)

I find through works fine, especially when used with plural, not so with singular, i.e. looking_through_leg. But either works.

titanmelon said:

• looking_to_side

This mainly is about the last one,

should it be looking_aside or looking_sideways?

• looking_diagonally?

looking_to_side is the clearest of the 3, imo

• looking_to_side
• looking_left
• looking_right ?

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looking_left + looking_right are also options, but I suspect they don't currently exist because:

• there's no definite way to know left/right is from relative to the character, or the viewer's screen
• people hardly tag optics tags anyway

I don't see any really good purpose of these, I find looking_away is plenty good. But if there is a need for it I guess I won't complain.

titanmelon said:

1b. There's also (TMK) no parent tag for the looking* subtags:

Again I see no purpose of this, an umbrella term just for the sake of having an umbrella term is a bit superfluous, I'm going hyperbole but let's get a tag to group all tags, let's call it tag (oops already in use).

titanmelon said:

2. looking invalidation

IIRC, looking was invalidated because any character with eyes is presumably looking somewhere

Which makes a lot of sense when considering humanoid body types; however:

• eyeless
• headless

Not to mention all the various non-humanoid configurations and anatomy out there

Should it be un-invalidated?

Why? Why do we need a looking tag just because a very few number of characters can't look in a traditional sense? It would be easier to implement a tag for "not looking", but we kind of already got those.

1a. looking_aside over looking_away because forum #212632. No need for left/right.

3. looking_between_legs is more accurate.

Shouldn't the various *_focus tags be in the tag group?

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GUI tags

There's a gui tag,

should we be doing anything with this?

For example, post #955271

Is gui the most specific (related) tag that's applicable to that post?

Was thinking such tags along the lines of phone_gui, and others
maybe vr_gui and ar_gui, but I can't really say much about the kind of posts on here that apply
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user_interface

That blends in somewhat with hud. Not exactly the same thing but visually similar.

Phone_gui seems fine, since that's recognizable as a phone interface. The tag itself sounds pointless though, dunno why anyone would search specifically for that.

I suppose camera_view could be applied to that particular one.

Genjar said:
Phone_gui seems fine, since that's recognizable as a phone interface. The tag itself sounds pointless though, dunno why anyone would search specifically for that.

Set it as someone's phone background to make them think their phone's playing up? I used to do that all the time with desktop wallpapers, saving icons onto it and watching some poor twat try to click on them.

I started using GUI for computing/gaming interface in the image (e.g. scrollbars, health bars dialogue boxes, undertale option boxes ...) and of course stuff like Pokemon go. I don't personally use it (or at least I don,t think I ought to XD) where recording or camera view alone will do the trick though.