Units that need animations updated for TC

[Jetrel]

In order to delegate this job to other people, I'm making only the base frames for the new team-colored units.

I'd like people to update the old animations to fit the new, team-colored base frames. You don't have to make new animations, just update the old ones to match the new base frames. Here is a list of the units that are not done - please post updates of their animation frames somewhere on the forum. And feel free to post only some of the frames, if doing all of them is too hard.


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Dwarves:
(none right now)

Humans:
(none right now)

Undead:
(none right now)

Orcs:
(none right now)

[Zhukov]

A question. I'm about to knock off the last Soulshooter frames and I noticed that in the melee frame (the arrow-stab thingy), there is a transparent swoosh which goes over a couple of areas that are TC'd on your base frame.
I'm not exactly familiar with the technical side of how TC works, I just slap on the magenta and hope for the best, but won't this mess up the RGB values for the TC area 'under' the swoosh when the frame is flattened into a .png?

Hope that garble makes sense

[zookeeper]

A question. I'm about to knock off the last Soulshooter frames and I noticed that in the melee frame (the arrow-stab thingy), there is a transparent swoosh which goes over a couple of areas that are TC'd on your base frame.
I'm not exactly familiar with the technical side of how TC works, I just slap on the magenta and hope for the best, but won't this mess up the RGB values for the TC area 'under' the swoosh when the frame is flattened into a .png?

The same problem was pondered upon briefly here. I believe the only proper workaround is to change the swooshes to white (a slightly yellowish one seems to be the norm, although I don't know if the soulshooter uses that), so you can just use the brighter TC colours to represent the swoosh overlapping TC'd parts.

[Jetrel]

A week with no response.

I consider myself patient, but I do have my limits.

Just remember that Jetryl has been off for a bit.

The animation looks fine. I'll add all those frames in, and I'll test the theory I had about how to solve the "weapon swoosh" dilemma for the melee frame. If it works, which it should, I'll post it here for you to look at.

And to make one thing clear:
ThankyouThankyouThankyou.

I deeply appreciate you doing these. Frees me up to do things like portraits (I've got a few surprises in the works... ).

[Jetrel]

Alrighty - I've just committed the soulshooter (and the orcish warlord and crossbowman). This includes Ranger M's fifth ranged frame.

My "solution" to the swoosh+team color dilemma works ... not perfectly, but a heck of a lot better than I had expected. I just used "very bright" bits of the team-color pallette, superimposed over the areas covered by the swoosh, and they did not, in fact, conflict with the swoosh being off-white. So, I didn't have to change the color of the swoosh.

About the only thing that was wrong was that the obscured parts looked a little bit too bright, but nothing was glaringly, obviously wrong.

And to make things more clear, I've attached the frame in the following thread (linked here, too, though posts in this thread get deleted after a while).
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 942#158942

[Boucman]

is there a TC tutorial somewhere on the wiki ?

you should probably add something about that...

[Zhukov]

Is there a TC tutorial somewhere on the wiki ? You should probably add something about that...

It could also rate a mention somewhere in the swoosh/motion-blur tutorial (which I can't find by the way).

Jetryl: what do you want me to do next? (I tried the Dragoon but it proved...harder then expected.) Is the Master-at-Arms being worked on? If not I would be happy to take a crack at him.

[Jetrel]

Jetryl: what do you want me to do next? (I tried the Dragoon but it proved...harder then expected.) Is the Master-at-Arms being worked on? If not I would be happy to take a crack at him.

It is actually being worked on, and most of the frames are already done.

However, the duelist, contrary to what is posted above (removing now) is NOT being worked on. Mille said he would, and then kinda petered out.

The duelist also has a lot of frames, and is a rather odious job that I'd like to see vanish - I have a feeling that most neophytes *won't* want to take it on, so if you'd be able to, that would save me the job of doing it.

(Jetryl looks for a moment at all the elves he's going to have to do, and cries softly to himself).

[torangan]

However, the duelist, contrary to what is posted above (removing now) is NOT being worked on. Mille said he would, and then kinda petered out.

Ahem...
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 6&start=15

[Jetrel]

However, the duelist, contrary to what is posted above (removing now) is NOT being worked on. Mille said he would, and then kinda petered out.

Ahem...
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 6&start=15

Thank you - thank you so much for notifying me of that.

Every once in a while, things completely slip under my radar.

[torangan]

Well, I miss sometimes to add your attack icons into the changelog. Ah wait, I'm just doing this because nobody else does it. Never took on the job officially.

[turin]

I did not do a great job with the ranged animation on the cavalier... the rest of the frames are good though.

I'm including the ranged animation just in case Jetryl thinks it is a good idea to include these anyway... if not, as is probable, I'm going to keep working on them.

[Jetrel]

I did not do a great job with the ranged animation on the cavalier... the rest of the frames are good though.

I'm including the ranged animation just in case Jetryl thinks it is a good idea to include these anyway... if not, as is probable, I'm going to keep working on them.

yey.

I just took a quick look at the ranged images - they're close enough that it will only take me some 5-10 minutes to fix them, so no worries.

I must note that you forgot to give the horse its skirt of chain mail in its defend and attack frames, but again - that's ridiculously easy for me to fix, so no worries.

All told, you've done >90% of the necessary work on these, and it is mighty appreciated.

[turin]

I must note that you forgot to give the horse its skirt of chain mail in its defend and attack frames, but again - that's ridiculously easy for me to fix, so no worries.

Um... oops.

[Zhukov]

TC frames for male Elf Archer death animation. You might want to work some magic on frame #4, it's kinda screwy.