Help:Articles on Microsoft Agent characters

This article is meant to serve as a guide on creating articles related to Microsoft Agent characters. Examples of these types of article include Genie, Peedy, and Merlin. You are going to need to have the Microsoft Agent Properties Viewer installed for most of the stuff found in this article, and it can be downloaded from here.

Infobox

Image

The image present inside of the infobox must be the last frame of the restpose or show animation of a character. The only exception to this is if the characters ACS file is lost and is unable to have a screenshot of the restpose animation.

Description

The character description comes directly from the ACS file itself when it is viewed in the gallery (Windows Vista or earlier) or from the Microsoft Agent Properties Viewer. A description that you've came up with for the character will not be accepted and will be removed. If a character has no description, avoid using the description in the infobox.

Extra data

The extra data of a character can be viewed from the Microsoft Agent Properties Viewer. If a character has no extra data, do not put anything for extra data in the infobox.

Animations

The number of animations of a character can also be viewed from the Microsoft Agent Properties Viewer.

TTS voice

The TTS voice of a character can also be identified with the Microsoft Agent Properties Viewer.

Download

The download to a character must be a direct link (such as a discordapp.com or tmafe.com link) and not use a site where the user has to go through prompts (such as Google Drive) to download the character. This is to make it more convenient for the end user to download.

1.5 and 2.0 versions

Exclusive template

Features/differences in a 1.5 and 2.0 version of Microsoft Agent must use the Exclusive template to indicate whether or not that feature/difference is related to which specific Microsoft Agent version. {{Exclusive/1.5}} indicates the feature/difference is part of the Microsoft Agent 1.5 version of a character. {{Exclusive/2.0}} indicates the feature/difference is part of the Microsoft Agent 2.0 version of a character. Example usage would be 90 / 100 when referring to character animations in the infobox.

Identifying the character version

A character's version can be identified with the Microsoft Agent Properties Viewer alongside all of the other character information. If the character has a version of 1.50, then it is 1.5 Microsoft Agent. If the character has a version of 2.00, it is a 2.0 Microsoft Agent.

Character information tables

In all Microsoft Agent character articles, the character data table is used to give all information about the character. If there are two versions of a character (such as 1.5 and 2.0 versions existing), create the first table with the Exclusive/2.0 template in the table title as seen in the Genie and make the second table include the Exclusive/1.5 template in the table title.You can fill out the character data with information from the Microsoft Agent Properties Viewer.

Color table image

The color table of a character can be extracted from a decompiled Microsoft Agent character. When uploading the color table, make sure to stretch the image to make it 32 pixels tall so that the colors can easily be viewed.