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I seem to recall Jetryl mentioning wanting a north-facing standing frame for the horseman, a while back. So here's an... attempt. Which probably has a zillion things wrong with it, so go ahead and point them out. (I know there isn't a shadow - didn't feel like making one unless the basic shape was ok.) I get the feeling that something is wrong with the perspective of it (one of my weak areas.)

Worked from scratch aside from getting the colors from the horseman's base frame.
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The perceived distance between his front and back feet is much smaller than it should be, methinks. The feet might have to be raised. Also, I think you could probably see at least part of the horses' head over the back of the human.

I could be completely wrong, of course, but IIRC the perspective on Wesnoth is from an angle significantly above the horizontal...
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Wasn't it like a little over 20 degrees?.
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How's this? Moved the horse's forelegs up, tail down slightly, added hint of the horse's head over rider's shoulder, fixed a bad highlight on the rider's armor (I hope) and tweaked the spear a little trying to look more like it's pointing back like in the base standing frame.

A little adjustment of the way the horse's rump overlaps the rider might be in order, depending on the angle. I am not sure.
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You should see more of the horse's back, i think. As it is, no matter what you do with the legs, we still see just the rump of the horse, which makes it look like an end-on view.
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Attempted to show more back, and a saddle.
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Hmm, now it looks like the rider's too far back. I might have a crack at some basic edits, see if i can't make something work.

You definitely need to be able to see something of the front legs, too, otherwise it looks like some sort of satyr type thing...

EDIT: tweaked.
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Any mishaps notwithstanding, I wholly endorse this effort. :)
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thespaceinvader wrote:EDIT: tweaked.
Any chance you could post the PNG without the grass (or an XCF or whatever, something suitable for editing?)
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Oops, certainly will this afternoon.
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Post by West »

Jetryl wrote:Any mishaps notwithstanding, I wholly endorse this effort. :)
Surely you mean end-horse?
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Groaaaan.

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Post by Stilgar »

Tweak of a tweak, mainly to do with shading... hopefully looks better.
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Post by Lecter »

Much better, but maybe with the lance's tip hint it would be perfect.
=( how u guys use GIMP so well I still loose terrible time on it being unable to select something and resizeit.
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Post by Stilgar »

Well, I didn't change the lance point from thespaceinvader's version. It may just be that it doesn't show well on the white background so if that's what you mean, in-game it should look similar to the one posted with a grass background.

Edit: And as for selecting something and resizing it... well I just erased and redrew stuff, zoomed in with the pencil tool. No resizing. Oh, and to resize a selection, it's the tool that says "Scale a layer or selection" on the tooltip... Looks like a small box with an arrow pointing into a bigger one.
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