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http://i27.servimg.com/u/f27/12/57/13/73/spotli10.jpg As part of the 50th Spotlight celebration, we are unveiling... Spotlight Search Engine (http://spotlight.lbpcentral.com) Version 2.0 We've been working hard on a bunch of changes that we think will make the tool even more useful for you, the members of LBPCentral. Most of these changes were based on suggestions and feedback from the first release, so thank you all for the kind words and great ideas! Some of the changes are strictly aesthetic in nature (new graphics and some animation), while others change and/or augment the functionality. The first thing you may notice is your LBPCentral user name in the upper right. If you are a guest here on LBPC, you will not be able to see or use all of the new features, but the basics will all still be there for you. New Features: User authentication, which is necessary for the next feature... Played Level Tracking System New configuration options, including: Randomization options Filtering of played levels Group updates of played levels Level links to Showcase threads. Help page Details: New look and feel: We've spiced things up just a bit with some graphical buttons and animation: http://lbpcspotlights.dwbaker.net/images/button_0.png http://lbpcspotlights.dwbaker.net/images/search_button_0.png http://lbpcspotlights.dwbaker.net/images/clear_button_0.png http://content.screencast.com/users/v0rtex/folders/Jing/media/cd071386-4a82-4a1a-a9b2-48b8b9784dbe/2010-10-17_0032.png Level Tracking System: With the user authentication in place, we are now able to store in our database all the levels that you mark as having been played by you. You can: Mark levels as played: http://content.screencast.com/users/v0rtex/folders/Jing/media/970c9589-6a16-4327-98fe-b0d5123065b8/2010-10-17_0040.png Track your plays: http://content.screencast.com/users/v0rtex/folders/Jing/media/7dfd39e4-9d9c-4465-adef-33dc533d570c/2010-10-17_0106.png Filter by played (or better yet... unplayed). This option is in the Extra Stuff panel: http://content.screencast.com/users/v0rtex/folders/Jing/media/5106face-abbd-4910-80af-02808de36b5c/2010-10-17_0042.png Mark all levels in your most recent search as played (or unplayed). Also in the Extra Stuff panel: http://content.screencast.com/users/v0rtex/folders/Jing/media/33cdce03-7184-482c-b514-b874442dde02/2010-10-17_0043.png This feature is really great if you want to mark all the levels of a particular spotlight episode, or all the levels from a particular creator. Just make your selection, run your search, and then in one quick action mark them all. Randomization options: The "Surprise Me!" button (shown above) will produce a quick random list of levels to go play. You can control how many levels are randomly picked. Again... in the Extra Stuff panel: http://content.screencast.com/users/v0rtex/folders/Jing/media/784d9b99-7931-4ebf-a829-969a0b575afb/2010-10-17_0104.png The played levels filtering (above) will affect what's returned on the random lists. Level Showcase links Click on any level... http://content.screencast.com/users/v0rtex/folders/Jing/media/1fe8ae82-a350-4742-b721-38753ba070a5/2010-10-17_0137.png ...and we will open the LBPCentral Level Showcase thread for that level. Help The Help button http://lbpcspotlights.dwbaker.net/images/help_button_0.png will produce this page: http://lbpcspotlights.dwbaker.net/images/LBPCSSE-Tutorial-v2.0.png That's it! We sure hope you enjoy using it as much we enjoyed creating it for you!

2010-10-20 22:28:00 Author: v0rtex Posts: 1878

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Wow, again I'm amazed. This makes it so much easier to look through our catalouge of spotlighted levels. I've been trying to slowly get through the whole list. This will surely help me with that task. Thanks again for the effort here guys!

2010-10-20 23:01:00 Author: Lockstitch Posts: 415

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YAY my level bee keepers is in one of the pics next to blueblox and cardboard island lol Great new features ill check them out now.

2010-10-20 23:05:00 Author: SketchNZ Posts: 1668

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i was waiting for a bonus feature but i didnt expect this ! AND I LOVE THE RANDOM LEVEL FEATURE!!

2010-10-20 23:06:00 Author: unXpectiD Posts: 1132

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Awesome work Vortex! (and Aya) You guys have managed to make finding epicness so much easier! (and before lbp.me even )

2010-10-20 23:10:00 Author: Morgana25 Posts: 5983

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This is better than lbp.me - all levels are on there, but in the search engine are only levels that have received the Spotlight's seal of awesomeness Thanks for this - although I should say it's not identifying me correctly; I'll keep trying.

2010-10-20 23:13:00 Author: Holguin86 Posts: 875

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WOW! as if i dont play LBP enough, with this im gona go mental and play soooo much more XD thank you

2010-10-20 23:29:00 Author: tom230889 Posts: 117

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Holy Cheese on a cake! These new features are gonna make our job so much more easier! You guys are THE best!

2010-10-20 23:55:00 Author: Chump Posts: 1712

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oooh... how nifty! I?m definitely liking these new features!! Thank you for all the hard work you put into upgrading a tool that was already totally awesome on its own!

2010-10-21 00:28:00 Author: koneko Posts: 95

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Thanks for the new features guys! This should help in finding some great levels.

2010-10-21 01:27:00 Author: eagerneph Posts: 1536

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This whole 50th spotlight extravaganza has been awesome!! This new feature is like the TRUE cool level pages! Bravo!

2010-10-21 02:18:00 Author: shawneboi Posts: 221

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Cool. If it were not for the efforts of communities like this, LittleBigPlanet would not be as fun. Imagine if all we had we the in-game cool pages... *shudders*

2010-10-21 02:24:00 Author: Stoicrow Posts: 276

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Cool. If it were not for the efforts of communities like this, LittleBigPlanet would not be as fun. Imagine if all we had we the in-game cool pages... *shudders* That's how I played for the first 6 months when I got the game back in november 08 ... Dark days indeed.

2010-10-21 02:28:00 Author: Asbestos101 Posts: 1114

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TOTAL MADNESS!!! I love you Vortex. EDIT: How do I login? I am "guest" when I go on the page...

2010-10-21 02:44:00 Author: RangerZero Posts: 3901

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TOTAL MADNESS!!! I love you Vortex. EDIT: How do I login? I am "guest" when I go on the page... Well now, I thought Aya fixed this issue, but I believe that when you log on to LBPC you have to check the box that says "Remember me". I know you have to be logged on to LBPC in the same browser that you open the Search Engine. If this isn't your situation ("remember me" is checked) then we may have to wait until tomorrow and ask Aya to look into it. Is anyone else experiencing this problem (Search Engine does not recognize your LBPC identity)? And, um... yeah, Ranger... ahem... I love you too? :blush:

2010-10-21 03:39:00 Author: v0rtex Posts: 1878

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Does that mean we must log out, then log back in?

2010-10-21 03:55:00 Author: booXely Posts: 654

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Is anyone else experiencing this problem (Search Engine does not recognize your LBPC identity)? Yeah it's not recognizing me. Also the surprise me button doesn't seem to do anything either. I love the concept of it though!

2010-10-21 03:57:00 Author: zynax555 Posts: 170

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This looks awesome I cant wait!

2010-10-21 03:59:00 Author: WESFUN Posts: 1336

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Wow, nice work. Props for adding in all those thread links. :o

2010-10-21 04:21:00 Author: midnight_heist Posts: 2513

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Hey v0rtex, Great job on the spotlight search engine! This is totally useful, and you made it even better. Thanks again for all your hard work. I appreciate it! Randomizing, jeffcu28

2010-10-21 04:21:00 Author: jeffcu28 Posts: 648

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Well now, I thought Aya fixed this issue, but I believe that when you log on to LBPC you have to check the box that says "Remember me". That should be fixed. This may be a different problem. To anyone having problems getting the Search Engine to recognize them, can you specify which web browser you're using, and what version?

2010-10-21 04:38:00 Author: Aya042 Posts: 2870

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A huge thanks to Vortex and Aya for all their work! You guys are the awesomes. EDIT: Oh, and it shows me as logged in fine. For what it's worth, I've got the Chrome Beta at the latest update (7.0.517.41)

2010-10-21 05:21:00 Author: Ryhas Posts: 179

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Wow, nice work. Props for adding in all those thread links. :o Well - credit where credit is due... Aya put together a nice little script that extracts the thread links from the Spotlight and creates a bunch of SQL INSERT statements. I just run those over my database, and voila! ... links! So the real credit goes to Aya for the script, but mostly to the Spotlighters for getting all that set up in each and every spotlight thread.

2010-10-21 05:24:00 Author: v0rtex Posts: 1878

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Really nice work on this v0rtex and Aya - what an incredible feature! I'm having a ton of fun with the random feature. It's like LBP meets my iPod.

2010-10-21 07:25:00 Author: Taffey Posts: 3187

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When I try and do it it just shows a new page which has some weird dealership thing on the top. It doesn't bring up the [U]actual spotlight. Please try and fix this.

2010-10-21 07:32:00 Author: mutant_red_peas Posts: 516

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I search every level what i have played of those spotlight levels. 105 PS3 and 104 PSP. I have played much much more levels like 1000 PS3 and 400 psp that are not Spotlight.

2010-10-21 11:00:00 Author: himoks Posts: 734

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Thought it was nifty before... Now, this is a bonafide valuable feature! Nice work guys!

2010-10-21 15:52:00 Author: Gravel Posts: 1308

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Thanks so much v0rtex! This will make browsing the search engine so much easier and more user-friendly! *gives cookeh*

2010-10-21 18:47:00 Author: Plasmavore Posts: 1913

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Its good you are all getting feedback to help make this even better, this shall be so useful. (And sorry Mm, too late! The Spotlight Crew beat you to this awesome idea).

2010-10-21 20:19:00 Author: PygmyOwl Posts: 1316

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Thanks! I'm most grateful for the 'Suprise Me!' button, it really helps to be given a random level, and I couldn't work out how to do a random search on the last one. Thanks!

2010-10-22 08:27:00 Author: kirbyman62 Posts: 1893

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That should be fixed. This may be a different problem. To anyone having problems getting the Search Engine to recognize them, can you specify which web browser you're using, and what version? I am on Windows Vista Home 64bit using Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18975 No matter what I do, I am always a guess in the spotlight search engine page.

2010-10-23 00:35:00 Author: RangerZero Posts: 3901

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I am on Windows Vista Home 64bit using Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18975 A useful bug report. Finally. I shudder to think of all the terrible bug reports that MM must get for the LBP2 beta. However, it was kinda unnecessary in retrospect, as I found the forum actually tracks which browsers people are using anyway. Based on that it seems to be only affecting IE (8 or 9) or Safari (4 or 5). I have a working plan on how to fix it, so I just need to wait until v0rtex is available.

2010-10-23 01:43:00 Author: Aya042 Posts: 2870

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OK - After some trial and tribulation, we (Aya042 and I) believe we have sorted out the issue with certain browsers not authenticating correctly. If you have posted here that you only show up as Guest in the Search Engine, we would greatly appreciate if you could try again and let us know how it goes. Thanks for your patience and for helping us to get to the bottom of this little bug!

2010-10-23 06:10:00 Author: v0rtex Posts: 1878

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Ok, this time it worked. For the first time I was able to see the pure awesomeness of the search engine Before it just showed the advert at the top.

2010-10-23 08:17:00 Author: mutant_red_peas Posts: 516

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Thanks - authentication issue resolved. Curse me for using IE ...

2010-10-23 15:14:00 Author: Holguin86 Posts: 875

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Locked and archived.

2010-10-31 18:36:00 Author: Aya042 Posts: 2870

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