After playing thru (the expansion packs of) morrowind: elder scrolls 3, and they have a part of the game in the bloodmoon expansion where it starts to snow. This was such an awesome effect that I immediately thought "lets do snow in DC". I then launched into the defense of sprites and how they could do weather effects. Now if they worked right they could do weather effects (and that means that you could display them in any event that shows artwork (so only utilities and logic block should NOT allow them) and they should be able to cycle on command, as well as show any of the 3 frames on command)
Alas, AFAIK, they do not work right. But as an additional feature, they should be usable on the overland map (imagine a map of your land and you put a sprite that shows the "enemy army" as it marches across the land
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I think we should be able to do bigger pictures on the combat screen as well, like you cast a spell and a dragon head breathes fire on the combat map, ala Golden Axe.
SilentThief