New Portraits/Small Pics!

[SilentThief]

Sounds good. I didn't bring up sprites on purpose due to the fact that the sprite animations don't work properly. Everything else we have.

ST

[manikus]

Well, sprites do work in the encounter event. And they don't in the rest (currently) not b/c of a bug, but b/c CocoaSpud did not initially add support for sprites to the other events, but eventually made them loadable, but never got to implement
the approach function.

[Uatu]

In my opinion, for a bare-bones module, I would need the following graphics (in the following order):

1. Essentials: Walls, doors, backgrounds, combat sets, icons
2. Nearly essential: PC portraits
3. Very nice: monster small pics, monster sprites, overlays

So, I am mainly concentrating on making portraits/small pics for monsters right now... I do want to make some sprites eventually for dungeon monsters.

What other kinds of small pics are high on your lists?

Also, I do want to make a big pic sometime, but I have NO IDEA what to make it of. Aerial dragon fight? Girl pinup?

[SilentThief]

Originally Posted by Uatu Also, I do want to make a big pic sometime, but I have NO IDEA what to make it of. Aerial dragon fight?

Something Dramatic, like the endboss Castle or the dragon or other vicious creature swooping down upon you.

Originally Posted by Uatu Girl pinup?

YEEESSSSS!!!!
ST

[manikus]

Originally Posted by Uatu 1. Essentials: Walls, doors, backgrounds, combat sets, icons 2. Nearly essential: PC portraits 3. Very nice: monster small pics, monster sprites, overlays

I guess I've spent so much time with FRUA, that I would list PC portraits as a luxury. But, as the rest of y'all seem to want them (not that I don't) that is what I'm currently working on.

[Uatu]

Well - the PC portrait box does sort of stick out without them, and it does ask you to select one in the game while creating a PC, so...

Also, forgot to note - some animated small pics (portraits are not animated, right?) would be fairly simple to make - i.e. the redhead blinking her eyes, a dragon sticking its tongue out (a-la one of the older Gold Box games), etc...

SilentThief:

Ha ha ha... Either picture (dragon or pinup) would be fun to do for sure, but I dunno where I would use the pinup in a game, though...

A pinup would work well, though, because of the horizontal picture frame

[manikus]

I have never tried to use an animated small pic for a PC portrait. I might have to try this.

Sure, there is the old blackbox, but we have 6 PC portraits that ship with the game now, part of me thinks that the designer should add more if she wants more, though I have been enjoying myself making them. The main concern really, is the size of the download. We're already pushing the upper limits for size for people using dial-up. I guess when we add in the default design, it will blow that limit anyways.

[Uatu]

Ah - I see. Hmmm - well, I am trying to make enough art to fill my own game (that I will make someday... really )... I guess if you make too many portraits, they could go in a "portrait pack" or something...

[SilentThief]

When loading the smallpics, you have the option of entering information for multiple frames, so I assumed we could do animations. I haven't tried it, tho

ST

[manikus]

We're going to have 20 PC portraits in the default download.

Hmmmm- we will probably have 10-20 NPC portraits, 10-20 item pics, 10-20 place pics and 20-30 monster pics when all is said and done which is somewhere around the 100 mark for small pics. A few less than FRUA, actually.

ST: As for animating the small pic, this option is not available for PC pics as they are not picked by the designer, but by the player at game time. (OK, you can put them in the pic pool, or pick them using the proper naming convention, but it's still not through an event.)