The Battle for Wesnoth Forums

Erggg! This beach thing keeps surprising me with new twists and complications. I think i've figured out how to get around all of them-- but still plenty of slogging to go. I ending up needing to make a simple flat color version of the transitions so i can make sure everything lines up right. The iss...

At this point, people are just discussing theory. When we see some icy cave walls with black on them, then we can compare for real. :P No, i'm talking about the reasons why i made existing terrain look as it does. Reasons that apply equally to any foreseeable future wall terrain, ice or otherwise. ...

The problem with not making the inside of walls black or at least very dark should be obvious -- it will look like a terrain units should be able to walk on. This does not necessarily follow. One doesn't expect to be able to walk on lava, and that's not black. One would not expect to be able to sta...

As a fan of science fiction and biology, the standard fantasy races seem too similar to really consider as separate species-- though as has been mentioned, a few authors (like Tolkien with multiple creations/adaptations by various powers) have a good explanation for their set up. But Wesnoth is what...

Leaving it black may be 'right' but has anyone ever experimented with a rock or rubble infill for these tiles? I have always thought the solid black was terribly 'heavy', and I'd never use this terrain if I could possibly avoid it. I don't even like playing on maps that use it very much. They haven...

My intention with the stone wall/cave walls is to redo them so both fit together seamlessly. I think i demonstrated in photoshop that it can work, but i haven't yet alerted the cut shapes to my satisfaction. This would use the normal corner transitions. Of course at this point i'm not certain that i...

Ultimately most of the GUI should be redone. I'd like to aim for something like this. But of course that's a long term goal, with a ton of work in-between.

Fixed up the Muddy Quagmire so it's no longer a kludge of ford and swamp, thus freeing up resources used to unnecessarily (and imperceptibly) animate it.

I've been staring at the sand-to-water so long that objectivity is too difficult. So putting that aside, i finished off a decent prototype for the waterfall. This is the general style i want: a top side that can blend with any water color, and thin, broken streams of water following the rock face. T...

Added a simple heat-shimmer animation to the lava.

It's not a great animation, but this should make it easier for someone with the art skill to make a nicer animation.

You are mostly right. In working on the wet to dry sand i sort lost sight of the wet sand to submerged sand transition. But my plan -- which is not evident from the last screenshot-- is to make the edge between land and water vague, more like earlier screenshots. Then we'll have semi-transparent wav...

Senate is such an abheration!... We've got it on the federal level here in Canada (not provincial, thank god), and it's utter non-sense. Seriously, how can you call yourself democratic when you have a senate, i.e. a bunch of non-elected old timers who are there for life... In the US senators are el...

More progress and definition...

I'm gonna have to leave the other artists working on terrain hanging for about a week. I need some big chunks of time to wrap this up.

ancestral wrote:then UI scale would be theoretically easy...

In theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice they are not.

...already signed a petition.

It should be a no-brainer: We have both Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech enumerated, but as usual the Constitution has little effect on lawmaking.