REQUEST - New images for orcish crossbowman

Post by **Eternal** » January 12th, 2007, 4:48 pm

Why bother with bows when you can have a small, portable hand-ballista?

I'll make a crossbow if this is just too crazy.

Post by **Jetrel** » January 12th, 2007, 6:26 pm

Eternal wrote:Why bother with bows when you can have a small, portable hand-ballista?

That would be excellent for shooting goblins. And by "shooting goblins", I don't mean goblins as targets; I mean as ammunition.

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		[animation]
			[missile_frame]
				begin=-150
				end=0
				image="units/goblins/impaler-attack-n.png"
				image_diagonal="units/goblins/impaler-attack-ne.png"
			[/missile_frame]

rofl.

Post by **Eternal** » January 14th, 2007, 4:32 pm

Does this look good enough?

Post by **Jetrel** » January 14th, 2007, 11:16 pm

Eternal wrote:Does this look good enough?

Quite close, there are some minor tweaks I'd like to do, though.

Post by **Jetrel** » January 15th, 2007, 2:10 am

Slightly shrunk the bow, and moved his right foot further outwards to improve the balance.

Post by **Jetrel** » May 6th, 2007, 10:18 pm

Okey-dokey; time to resurrect this project.

These are the final frames for the crossbowman/slurbow:

I'm going to start producing the current frameset for the orcish crossbowman - I'd ask that eternal/zhukov work on providing north-facing frames for this guy. I'd at least like to get directional ranged frames, because it just looks bizarre when he faces to the south, and fires to the north, right now; but since standing frames in the directions are a good start for attacking frames, we may as well provide both. When the current frameset is finished, this will go in; additional frames can be added after that.

So to start the ball rolling, here's a sword standing frame. A side note is that, in 1.3.2, the way units now work is that (if they have attacks in both melee/ranged), they have a standing frame for each. The one with their primary weapon is normally used, but when they're in fights with their off-weapon, that weapon stays visually wielded while fighting.

Post by **Jetrel** » May 7th, 2007, 2:58 am

Actually, I've finished replacing all of the frames we currently have for the crossbowman - I'd really like us to have directional frames, but for now, I'm getting the old images out. These have been committed, and I also have a .zip file of them here (the sword frame is a cheap cleanup of the old one; in the future it would be worth making an actual animation).

Post by **Jetrel** » May 25th, 2007, 2:25 pm

I'm about halfways through replacing the Slurbow images.

Post by **Eternal** » May 25th, 2007, 5:55 pm

This is all great news.

Summer vacation is starting soon and I'll have a look at many things unfinished. Although my summer job will block some time, I'll be doing best I can.
I'm hoping we'll see Zhukov here too.