Turin's rant on drake's size...

[tigrezno]

This is the result of different graphical designers/styles. Graphical rules should have done time ago.

[turin]

This is the result of different graphical designers/styles. Graphical rules should have done time ago.

this was my point.

must we get offtopic in every thread?
it doesn't matter whether drakes are skilled or not, the topic at hand is how big the graphics are.

[scott]

I don't understand the problem. Using the scaling method, drakes average 8 feet tall. That's fine! They're as tall as wookies.

Is your complaint that:
1. height correlates to power, so the drakes as a current exception should be scaled down to fit their power [yoda]judge me by my size do you, hmm?[/yoda] or powered up to fit their scale?
or
2. in the Wesnoth world, drakes are not really 8 feet tall?

I think the relative height of drakes to the monsters is irrelevant. In Wesnoth, ogres avg 6'8". Yetis are 9'4. Drakes are 8'. They are what they are as prescribed by the HDIC. Unless you're hung up on a power correlation, I don't see the issue. If drake size is decreed to be otherwise, then a change is in order.

[tigrezno]

After all "wesnoth is not about realism" (tm)

[atoi]

I think they're fine. I expect Drakes to be larger.

[Jetrel]

I don't understand the problem. Using the scaling method, drakes average 8 feet tall. That's fine! They're as tall as wookies.

Is your complaint that:
1. height correlates to power, so the drakes as a current exception should be scaled down to fit their power [yoda]judge me by my size do you, hmm?[/yoda] or powered up to fit their scale?
or
2. in the Wesnoth world, drakes are not really 8 feet tall?

I think the relative height of drakes to the monsters is irrelevant. In Wesnoth, ogres avg 6'8". Yetis are 9'4. Drakes are 8'. They are what they are as prescribed by the HDIC. Unless you're hung up on a power correlation, I don't see the issue. If drake size is decreed to be otherwise, then a change is in order.

Agreed.

[Shade]

There is very little 'positive' that can come out of this thread.

[turin]

After all "wesnoth is not about realism" (tm)

which is why drakes should be smaller...

unless you want to argue that trolls are less than 8 feet tall, which i think is absurd... size in wesnoth is not linear. it IMHO is dependent on unit power. a large unit provides a feeling of power to the player. so why should a first level drake be portrayed as more powerful than a second-third level troll?

(BTW... the drake burner is actually only 2 pxls shorter than the Yeti. its the drake clasher and fighter who bring the average down, and i don't have a problem with their gfx. i have a problem with the burner and glider graphics).

[tigrezno]

I agree with you turin, drakes are bigger, but think on it, All of them are bigger, changing it will take lot of work (for neo as main drake developer)

[turin]

I agree with you turin, drakes are bigger, but think on it, All of them are bigger, changing it will take lot of work (for neo as main drake developer)

actually, only the burner and glider (level 1) are too big. hte third levels are OK, IMO, because they don't change in size as they go up, really. actually, it might be possible to reuse current level 1 burners for level 2, use level 2 for level 3, and redo level 1. then everything would be fine...


i actually like the sky drake image, its the glider (its devancement) i think is too big. that, again, is only one image.

[Darth Fool]

I completely agree with turin that he should make the drakes smaller. I eagerly await his revised graphics

[Sangel]

Smaller level one drakes would be nice.

[Neoriceisgood]

Well if you think in game graphics are bad, make new ones to replace em; I have no trouble atm.

[turin]

I completely agree with turin that he should make the drakes smaller. I eagerly await his revised graphics

i'll do it. seriously. i HATE the current burner graphics.

(and i don't think it will be that hard to make them a bit smaller, which is the only problem with them).