(Active on Bluesky, Twitter/X, Instagram, Discord) World of Warcraft Photography ๐ธ| Discord: mistweaverlilytea ๐| I love ART! ๐จ| Mythic+/Raiding โ| RPs on Moon Guard: Charlotte Fizzles! โ
Hello Tumblr! My name is Lily and I mainly post awesome screenshots from World of Warcraft! I use the Narcissus addon to make creative scenes with characters! I'm also known as Charlotte from a roleplay realm: Moon Guard! Here is the work I post on Twitter and Instagram: MistweaverLily
I don't know how often you're on your tumblr, and I gushed about your work during the tourney - but I thought I'd ask, since I've always had an interest in photography myself (and XIV only made that worse with a mode dedicated to it) - do you think you would ever make a guide to help others learn to navigate Narcissus better, and get into the world of WoW photography? I'm sure I could fumble around with it and eventually figure some things out, but there's nothing like learning from someone experienced, and passionate about their craft (and learning tips and tricks that only someone with experience knows). I realize such a thing might take more work than you'd like, so no pressure - just appreciation for what you do! Keep being amazing, kind, and talented!
Hello! I don't be on Tumblr much, my apologies for not being very active on here! I appreciate you asking a question!! I do have Narcissus tips but it's on my Twitter/X with a thread of different things I cover over on Photo Mode of Narcissus. If you have any specific questions on what you need to do in Narcissus for screenshots, you can contact me on Discord, the app I'm always active in! My Discord username is mistweaverlilytea! Thank you so much for the wonderful message! Again, my apologies for not being the most active on Tumblr! The apps I'm active on are Twitter/X, Instagram and Bluesky! I hope you have a wonderful day/night! ๐๐๐
TRP Aesthetics & formating has always been a well-guarded secret within the World of Warcraft RP community. This guide serves to break down that gatekeeping and give everyone access to the tools to make their TRP in whatever cool way they want!
It's been a long time since I realized my first guide, so this one serves as not only an updated version for all the new tricks I learned, but also a connection to further resources which have come out since then.
This guide will also be actively updated with Further Resources when new guides and tricks come out by other creators.
As always, LET'S GET THIS SPARKLE AND CROSS-INFESTED BREAD! (ใฃโโกโ)ใฃ โค
Symbols! Dare I say the face of Aesthetic TRPS! There are two kinds of symbols: the symbols you can simply copy/paste easy-peasy & then the ones that require a special symbol to activate!
When using ANY, make sure to include this ใ ก symbol somewhere in the line or it will appear as a box.
Formatting is a bitch. THANKFULLY, we got some tips & tricks here to make it easier for all of you! This section will be going over gradient text, empty 'race' slots, headers, spacing, additional information and all that funky stuff that just makes it look nicer. Who thought moving text over or changing it's size would make such a difference!?
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Colour Gradients:
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Once again, thank you to @ladytruebane for showing me how to do this all the way back when I made the first guide. Give her love. Or else.
Okay, so you want to do something like this?
You're going to want to go to this website: https://www.stuffbydavid.com/textcolorizer
Put whatever text you wish within the box and the colours you would like. Copy paste the BBCode selection into your TRP. Every 'color' must be turned into 'col', every set of these brackets [ ] must be turned into these ones { }, the # & = must be erased and = must be replaced with : . It is a long process, but it won't show up unless you do this.
Below is a small video of me verbally explaining it as well (and showing how long it takes. (ยฌ_ยฌ") )
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Empty 'Race' Slot
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So you want to make race/class all one colour! It's actually HELLA easy.
Go to your Race Slot and delete everything in it, once you do that, press spacebar and BOOM. Empty! Just make sure whatever you want coloured is in the Class Slot, and it will appear the colour of your choice.
Small demo below!
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Headers
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How to make your text bigger! There are three sizes of header:
You can colour your headers whatever kind you want - the gradient even works with headers as well! Headers can be used for all sorts of things: Titles, About Sections, Quotes, Borders, Symbols, whatever you want! Icons are also effected by headers so you can orientate an icon wherever you'd like within your TRP!
Just make sure everything is within the {h1:c} & {/h1} or else it will appear as it's default size.
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Additional Information
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Additional Information can be a canvas to put whatever you want! Here's an example of what I do with mine!
The sky is your limit! You can really do anything with it. Here's a small video explaining spacing with Additional Information and some tricks I've learned.
Links are where you put your. . .Links! Artwork, tumblrs, carrds, social links, etc etc. Here, I'll be showing you the different ways you can format links; orienting them on your page as well as turning them into icon images! The former was hard af to figure out but when you see how simple this is, you will laugh at me-
So formatting links; it's basically the same as formatting normal text as shown above. You can even colour them too! Here's a quick little show of how to make a coloured and formatted standard link.
The order of code for coloured links is as follows: Header (If wanted) > Colour Code > Link
To make a link appear as an Icon, you MUST place the Icon Code within the text section (as seen in the video). If you do not, it will not appear and ruin the string of code.
Borders can be used wherever within your TRP! They're good for sectioning information and just making it look nice and formatted. There are three different kinds of borders: Symbols, Images & Icons. I will explain how to make your own, as well as share some for free use!
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Symbols
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Symbol-based borders are by far the easiest to make. You just type them out and play around with the symbols of your choice! You can really put them anywhere within your TRP - Additional Info, About, OOC info, literally ANYWHERE.
I encourage you all to try and make your own! I bet they'll be super cool. For now though, here's some examples ya'll can use.
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Images
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Image borders can come in two forms: full images or flattened images. The first is very explanatory, whatever image you pick can divide text. This can be scenery, crowns, gems, Blizzard-licensed character art & so much more! There's a butt load to pick from, so take the time to browse and find the perfect one.
Here's an example I did using a Revendreth image!
Flattened images can also be used as borders! To flatten an image, you must alter the last numbers within the string of code. As you can see here, this is the normal image and default code.
I go in and edit the number 128 to 5 and get this flattened image as a result!
Again, feel free to play around with this and find the images and sizes you love best! I've even seen some people super impose them for backgrounds??? Badass???
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Icons
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Icon borders are like the weird lovechild of Image & Symbol borders. With a mixture of Icons & Symbols, you can really make some cool shit. Icons can be formatted and moved around your profile with Headers. Like so!
Here is a collection of aesthetic TRP Icons I've found and categorized for your usage! They are divided by UI-formatting, colour (random picks), Racial, Faction & then any other cute random ones I find.
Sadly, the black, white & brown Icon sections has to be cut due to the sheer GIRTH of this post.
However, you can really find any sort of Icons within the searchbar! Keywords like colours (black, pink, green), races (Nightelf, Human, etc) and so much more can be found easily! Want your icon to be a class ability? Use the class as your keyword.
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Transparent Backgrounds
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These icons appear as their shape, rather than having a black box or background behind it. You can use these little guys for all sorts of things! I've seen people use them as borders, bullet-points, decor, like literally anything.
(Left 2 Right)
Red Paw: {icon:pet_type_beast:25}
Rat: {icon:pet_type_critter:25}
Dragon: {icon:pet_type_dragon:25}
Fire: {icon:pet_type_elemental:25}
Wing: {icon:pet_type_flying:25}
Helmet: {icon:pet_type_humanoid:25}
Sparkle: {icon:pet_type_magical:25}
Cog: {icon:pet_type_mechanical:25}
Skull: {icon:pet_type_undead:25}
Wave: {icon:pet_type_water:25}
Green Paw: {icon:tracking_wildpet:25}
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Murloc: {icon:newplayerhelp_newcomer:25}
Green Dot: {icon:7fx_alphamask_glow_teal_blend:25}
TIPS & INFO
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Simply a collection of little tricks and nuggets of info I've learned about TRP over the years. They don't quite count as formatting so uh. I dunno. This is my guide, I'll do what I want-
The larger your TRP is, the longer it will take to load. Don't feel put off if someone whispers you about it thinking they were accidently blocked!
A TRP doesn't have to be long to be good. Size doesn't matter, it's how you use it as they say.
Don't feel pressured to make your TRP a certain way. It's your TRP. Have fun with it and go crazy!
Don't feel afraid to reach out & ask other players how they did something in their TRP if you like it! Though some may still gatekeep techniques, there's been a shift in the TRP culture. You may make a new friend too!
If you get a TRP formatting error, you're most likely just missing a / or { } somewhere within the code. I do it all the time and a comb through the code normally shows me where one went missing.
BACK UP YOUR TRP! The worst feeling in the world is writing a super swag TRP only for it to get shitted on by a WoW update. Below, I'll show you a quick and easy way to do it.
Alternatives to AI Art, another post Iโve made awhile ago. The community has this weird culture about NEEDING character art, so hereโs some alternatives to AI!
So, the AI Art discussion has been a huge hot topic for not only the WoW RP community, but the entire internet as we know it. Because we are
Super cute TRP templates done by this lovely tumblr account. Stumbled across them by chance, but I'm kinda adoring the themes & aesthetic they've got going???
@trp3-templates
WoW Trp3 Templates
A really amazing post on r/WoWRoleplay where the community has shared some more tips & tricks I haven't covered within this guide. It warms my heart to see us helping out each other!
The original TRP Aesthetic Guide I made years ago. All the information has been imported and improved here, but I'm a bit of a sentimental sucker, so I'll be linking it here too for legacy purposes.
Theyโre called by many names:ย โaestheticโ,ย โmyspaceโ, or simply. . .Fancy! Dolled up TRPs with strange symbols, colourful text, or even miss
GUYS, it's been over a wholeass YEAR since I released the OG TRP Guide. That's crazy, yo. A lot happens in a year & I'm so glad to have heard how many people got my guide and appreciated it. You guys have gotten hella creative and I can't count how many swag & aesthetic TRPs I've seen since it's release. Not only that, but people have also been more open with sharing techniques & tips. Just makes me fuzzy inside or someshit.
Point is, since I released it there's a LOT of stuff I didn't know and even more things being found out. That, and there's a lot of stuff I thought was common knowledge that isn't; thus not adding it to the original one. I asSuMeD- So, I began asking some of you just how you were doing it & compiling EVERYTHING, just incase! Like the first, this project is a bunch of roleplayers coming together to make another fun resource for the community.
ENOUGH MUSHINESS. GO MAKE A CUTE / SWAG TRP!
Charlotte Fizzles started her photography business in the summer of 2023. Charlotte has always been a fan of artists and what they can do for people. Years before her business, she was self-taught into photography and became a pro at taking amazing pictures of people, places, and things! She uses her Magitech camera, which she helped create with her father, who is a technomancer! Many people knew what she could provide, and she made a living out of it!
She used to give away tons of photos for free (only when she volunteers to do so), and that's when the high demand for photos started rolling in. After Tournament of Ages 2022, the high demand took a toll on her. Some people took advantage of her hard work and kindness. Charlotte created this business as a way to set boundaries but also as a way to communicate more with people and give them a chance to see how photo commissions work. Since she's a mage and already travels a lot, this works well for meeting people all over the world and making her clients feel like they shouldn't be doing all of the work!
Charlotte does have business partners she has met over the months since starting her business. Her first business partner is named Vikzy Sizzleboom, who helps with photo commissions and gold trade on the horde side. Sneaky Berryblast is her second business partner who helps with being up close to the action by moving around in stealth taking photos and Fraenesa Silverwind is her third business partner who helps with fashion ideas. The business holds strong and continues to do so, with everyone spreading the word about it and making people happy getting their wonderful photos taken by the well-known photographer on Azeroth!
Here's a link to the carrd for character photo commissions! โ๐ธ
