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His favourite books are on birds, and he has a whole bookshelf dedicated to the birds of Sornieth. He prefers the illustrated versions. His latest fancy are those with moving images. They can only be captured by arcane dragons at present, but he imagine the technology will adapt quite quickly.

He arrived at the Windflower as a grown up, and was shocked at how many dragons lived there. From the air it did not look nearly as densely populated. The fleeting masses and thousands of stories intrigued him, and his thirst for more stories has never been satisfied. As more ancients showed up, he helped them settle in and created some sort of remembrance community torestore the old stories. Someone else has long since taken over this task, but he is greatly appreciated by the other ancients.

As biography styling took off, he started an apprenticeship at the library before landing his current editor job. He is very sensitive to new trends, and tries to embed these into his work. Classical and elegant setups are his absolute favourite, but sometimes the situations calls for simplicity or something funky.

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Codes for Creativity

When you create a private message, or writes or edits a forum post or dragon biography, you get a few text styling options. These codes are called BBCodes and are often the same across all forums. You don't need to remember them by heart.

Coding adds a personal touch. In forums, dragon biographies (bios for short) and private messages (PMs), a few coding options are available as shortcuts. However, there exist a lot more. In your user profile there are currently no shortcuts available, but the codes work there as well. If you want a fancy profile you must either do the coding yourself or use someone else's as a base.

In general, you write a command in brackets before the text or image you want to address, and end with a /command in brackets. For this guide I assume you want to learn to write the commands in themselves and know where to find them in the shortcuts. You can use small or capital letters in the codes and they should still work. If you write codes within codes, always end the first code last. And if you find this guide useful, please leave this dragon a like!








User codes

You can "ping" other users in the forum by typing @ before their username. Once posted, that user will get a notification that they can click to go to your post. This notification is called a ping, and the user got pinged. When posted, the name will become clickable. I can post the code here, but pings only work in the forums.

Previously, pinging a user twice in the same post gave a person 2 notifications. Luckily, this issue has been fixed. You can insert someone's avatar dragon, or profile picture, and it will be clickable. This will not give them a notification.

Dragon Codes

Now we are getting into FR specific image codes! On a dragon profile you can click the share button right under the star button, also called the like button, and over the sell button. Note that some users have the like button disabled. Copy the widget and you get what is commonly referred to as the dragon BBCode because that was its name before the dragon profile rewamp in 2020. It is basically your dragon with its link attached. This is what you usually post in the forums, dragon share treads, sales posts and so on because it not only lets you show off your dragon, but also lets others click it to visit and view the whole dragon profile.

You can also just right click your dragon and click "copy image address" and paste it with an img code. You will also have to insert ".png" if that is missing. This will display the image, but will not link to your dragon. This works for images and gifs outside of Flight Rising as well.

If you skip the entire img code and just post the image address for your dragon, it will display the link and it will be clickable. When clicked you will be taken to a page which displays your dragon image and nothing else. It doesn't matter if you add the .png or not. This works for images and gifs outside of Flight Rising as well.

Now we will use this image link as a base to get the other dragon image formats used around Flight Rising. Pay attention to the parts highlighted in blue:

https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/511689/51168808_350.png

Change 350 to avatars and delete _350. This displays your dragon in the small size you see on your lair pages.

Change 350 to portraits and _350 to p. This displays your dragon's headshot.

Change 350 to coliseum/battlesprites and delete _350. This displays the dragon in the size used in the coliseum in general. This is slightly bigger than in the lair pages. It is always facing right.

Change 350 to coliseum/portraits and delete _350. This displays the mini-banner used while in a coliseum battle.

Links


Copy the url address you want to link to. When you post a Flight Rising link you don't need any codes. They just work. I think Deviantart links also work because they are affiliated with Flight Rising (FR). When posting a non-FR link, you need the url code for it to be clickable.

You can envelop a letter, sentence or image with a link. This is very practical because it looks good and saves space.

Item codes

More Flight Rising specific codes! To display almost any item, simply write in brackets item=name. This code can be grabbed from the game database by clicking the share button and then copy the icon code. Previously this code didn't work correctly for skins, but now it does!

To get the miniature icon and full name, clickable and automatically linking to the game database entry copy the widget instead.

When you save a scry using the Predict Morphology function, or save an outfit in the Dressing Room you can click the share button and copy the Widget. When pasted this will give a preview of your scry/outfit. When click they will redirect you to that exact scry in the Scrying Workshop or outfir in the Dressing Room.

The last assets of this chapter are the emojis. Dragon faces appear in 2 sizes, while all others only exist in the small size. As there are so many, the easiest way to get them on your profile is to copy the code from a dragon bio etc.

Funfact: Previously, item codes for items with a name containing ' simply didn't work. For a time there was an extra code you could insert to make it work, but luckily they fixed it. Skin codes can be written in two ways, and both give the same result now. Previously only one could be clicked and gave you a preview on your dragons, while the other only let you preview the skin itelf. This is why we have two ways of writing the skin codes. As a side note, if several skins are named the same, the skin code with the skin's name in it will only show the oldest skin with that name.

Text


Our headers are in bold, but we can also make them italics, underlined or striketrough.

The size of your text makes it easier to distinguish between headers and flavour text. The sizes range from 1 to 7 and the default size is 3.

We also have the superscript and subscript commands. I never use them.

The spoiler command was disabled for some time due to misuse, but apparently the function is back. Mark the spoiler to highlight what it says.

Next we have something fancy: colours! Some colours are inlaid so you can spell them outright. For others you need the exact colour codes. You can also use an external page like https://www.color-hex.com to find any colour code. The colour "transparent" makes the text invisible and is great for distancing.

I have no idea how many different fonts currently exist and can be used on Flight Rising, so if you like a font not on this list you can try it in the code and hope it works. If it does, feel free to tell me so I can add it to the list below. Some fonts will appear bigger or smaller than the original, but they are still size 3. All the fonts below have been discovered by users of Flight Rising.

Webdings can be used without a code if you copy them.

Paragrahps


We will start with the easiest part: page alignment. Left aligned text is the standard, but it can also be centered or right aligned.

Example

Then we have lists. There are four types of lists, but only two of them have shortcuts. You can also make a list without using any of these codes, just by adding an emoji before each point/line.

The indent code lets you shift text one step inwards. If you use it twice, it will shift two steps inward.

My perhaps most used code is the columns code. You can make any number of columns, but I recommend using less than 6. When you have mastered this code, you will be able to understand most complex bio codes.

You can add a break line. It is the rule command or just - five times in a row. It will also work if you make more than five in a row.

In the forums, you can quote someone's posts by clicking the blue " button. This will make a quote of their post in the comment section. You can comment or edit their post and post it. However, the quote code can be used without quoting someone. You can add a heading as well, but if you do it will always say "your heading wrote" instead of just "quote". Quotes work well with other codes, like columns.

The last code is one you have seen a lot in this tread. The code code shows how a code or text is written without executing it. You can use it to explain a small code or a whole biography. There is one annoying thing about it: You can't display a code code in a code code. So I will show it here using parantheses () instead of brackets [].

A few codes have been disabled because they were misused. This includes the music track code and the hoover text codenamed acronym. I'm not sure if we have ever had collapseable text, but I would love to have them.

Formats


What, you are still here? Well, ok. You must be really into coding! Here is a last snacks for you, but it is only practical information and not codes. The maximum size of images you can use differs from dragon bios to forums and profiles, and it changes depending on if you need a scroll bar or not. This is just a compiled list of maximum sizes for images.