Tom Chapman

Share images: player profiles

Added 2023-05-23 15:30:51 +0000 UTC

Hello!

When you share specific Braytech URLs in specific apps (Discord, Twitter, Messenger, etc.) a dynamic image based on that URL may be generated to give a preview of the link! i.e. https://bray.tech/inspect/item/1849149215

When I built https://bray.tech/legend, it was entirely with the intention of being able to then eventually add a share image. Examples include; first image bottom right, second image

So what I'm here to do is ask you what you'd really want to see. Generating images using Canvas is a laborious and manual task - literally nudging things around pixel by pixel and other crap 🫡 ... but I love the results so muchhhhh

I haven't programmed an example of everything featured on Braytech's Legend view because it takes a lot of time when I'm not yet sure what design I want to commit to so before I go further I wanted to ask for wider input!

Some things require more effort than others, such as loading and caching all item icons so I can read them in and write them to a new image and other things I want to avoid entirely - anything that depends on loading more data than a player's profile. The Destiny API player profile response is half a megabyte, GZIPd!

Originally, I wanted to do a black text on white background thing like this

But in earlier versions I was featuring emblem icons - many emblem icons are white with a transparent background hehe so that didn't work but if I don't go back to them then maybe I could still go white... I know, you all hate light mode, white anything, whatever

Anyway, examples of ideas include;