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[tehmarken]

Ok guys, I said that I was gonna make goblins mean, green, fighting machines. Here's the first draft:

Regular Goblin:



Sword Goblin:



Armored Sword Goblin:



The concept behind the armored goblin is to match the Elite level of skill, such as the leaders of Sieges. And that's not a helmet; it's a skull mask 

[dreiche2]

I guess you would have to keep animations subtle, otherwise a fortress crowded with dwarves and animals will look pretty confusing 

[Footkerchief]

Are those... cloven hooves?  I don't think that's quite canon, but if you do keep them in, I'd say tone down the shining-ness of them, and brighten up the pants/skin around them.

[tehmarken]

They were actually supposed to be clawed feet. Haven't quite figured out a good way to represent that though.

[YojimboUsaka]

Nice goblins!  For the clawed feet I would recomend putting a small toe/claw behind the foot.  One/maybe two pixel should do it and would remove the cow hoof look.

Yoj

[kaypy]

Currently, there are 6 frames, because I keep a global frame number that loops at 6.

If someone else wants to redo the code, they get to set the frame count 8-P

edit:
6 is nice because:
* is works nicely with 2 and 3 frame anims
* it fits into a byte if you want to use binary arithmetic to say what sprites appear on what frames
12 would also work well, but require ints and make the configuration more 'interesting'

[kaypy]

Oh, I now have a first pass at critter animation

But googlecode isnt letting me commit right now...
Found a workaround

[dyze]

whats up with the empty poll?

[kaypy]

Maybe Jonask wants to see how many of our readers have ESP?

[dyze]

Maybe Jonask wants to see how many of our readers have ESP?

i saw a disctinct 'A' in my head so i went with that

[Sean Mirrsen]

I tried rendering a properly-proportioned human model with LW. It doesn't look good enough.



(the purple outline is because of the purple backdrop and antialiasing)

Next I'll try to remember how to make animations in it, and see if I can pose the model into something interesting.

[Impaler[WrG]]

Simply allow each creature to track its own animation loop, init a loop of animation reference index's and keep an index that just increments each time it draws and return to the top of the list when you need too.  All this only needs to occur during the Draw step so you don't waste any cycles on un-rendered creatures.

[jarathor]

Here's what I've got now:
I've done all of the professions, male and female (except the bowyer - I just forgot to do that one), most of the nobles (I don't have something specific yet for a few), royal guards (I went with red/purple, but I'm going to upload the different styles/colors of helmets and bodies so that people can just pick what they like best), regular guards (should the elites be purple gold, or another color?) and the military. Hopefully all of the weapons are clear enough. I'll start working on getting them each in a seperate image.

Spoiler: Very Large Image (click to show/hide)

Awesome, Beefmo is back - those toads are awesome. I can't wait to see what's next.

The goblins are also awesome - they're just the slightest bit too bright for me, but that's not a big deal.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot to do the female jeweler sprites. I'll get those done soon.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

i voted D

[tefalo]

I also voted D!

...D!