Topic: Barbarian Tavern-Inn-Big Inn Remodel
chuckw
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Joined: 2010-03-15, 15:23
Posts: 945  One Elder of Players Location: New York - USA |
Posted at: 2015-01-24, 03:16
Working cycles for the three buildings.
Idle cycle
Edited: 2015-01-24, 03:19
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Tino
Joined: 2009-02-20, 16:05
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Posted at: 2015-01-24, 08:20
I just used the branch to see the animation cycle live, really nice! But i think the flag is still blocking too much of the animation (tavern) and building (big inn). Not sure how to solve this, but you have invested so much work in the details that it should be fully visible.
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GunChleoc
Joined: 2013-10-07, 14:56
Posts: 3324 One Elder of Players Location: RenderedRect |
Posted at: 2015-01-24, 10:34
Good work Adding a window on the left because of the flag is a good idea. Busy indexing nil values
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chuckw
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Posted at: 2015-01-24, 15:19
I would say "take down the flag", but that has dire consequences. I'll fiddle with things a little and get back to you. I see little people.
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chuckw
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Posted at: 2015-01-24, 18:49
I have decided to flip the model horizontally and put the fire pit/hearth on the left of the image. Like this This way we keep the cooking animation in view. This is a little more involved than flipping a 2d graphic when dealing with 3d models and animation, so I'll be locked in my room for a little while. I see little people.
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GunChleoc
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Posted at: 2015-01-24, 19:06
LGTM I guess I'll see you when I see you Busy indexing nil values
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chuckw
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Posted at: 2015-01-29, 19:16
Here are the flipped (and tweaked) tavern, inn and big_inn: I changed a few things. 1) the material of the thatch roofs and cooking hearth 2) Lightened the color of the barrels to help them stand out against the dark texture of the log walls 3) created different tables but kept the original texture as an homage to the original models. 4) tweaked some of the lighting and smoke animation. ..... idle: working: I'll push a branch for review and let you know when it is available. I see little people.
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chuckw
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Posted at: 2015-01-29, 20:33
Pushed branch lp:~chuckw20/widelands/barb_tavern_inns for testing and merge. I see little people.
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kaputtnik
Joined: 2013-02-18, 19:48
Posts: 2443 OS: Archlinux Version: current master One Elder of Players Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2015-01-29, 22:16
I think there should be not so many playercolor sections on each building. There are the carriers and the flags that shows the playercolor. Where while gameplay are playercolors importand/usefull? For the HQ and military buildings it could be importand, but i think on other buildings the playercolor could be minimized. Maybe one emblem on each building? If it is logical on the same place on each building it brings a bit tranquility to the arrangement. Just a thought The flipped images look great What tool do you use? Fight simulator for Widelands:
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chuckw
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Posted at: 2015-01-30, 02:25
Your point is valid and it would certainly save me some work
The fact that non-military buildings are destroyed rather than assimilated when their land is conquered sort of makes the branding with playercolors unessential. I'll consider reducing or completely removing the playercolor from the new models.
Thanks!
With the exception of terrain and roads, virtually all of the graphics on the gameboard, including immovables, animals, workers and buildings are first modeled in 3D and then 2D images are rendered from the 3D models. This facilitates animation greatly and the use of a standard rendering stage with fixed positions for the camera and lighting help to ensure a consistent viewing angle and shadows for all the various elements found on the map. The tool that is recommended for such graphic development in Widelands is an open source 3D graphics/animation tool called Blender. Blender is a very sophisticated tool that combines the tasks of modeling, texturing, animation, rendering and post-production compositing. Blender has been used to create CGI movies and even contains its own game engine (which we don't use). I see little people.
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and save on file space not to use player color on non-military buildings. (The use of player color necessitates creating a color mask file for each frame of animation or still.)