Proposed New Images for Time-of-Day

Post by **Dave** » December 23rd, 2003, 3:16 pm

A user has proposed the following new images for time-of-day. What do people think of them?

(If you want to see them in-game, save them to images/ under the Wesnoth directory).

azlan · Post by **azlan** » December 23rd, 2003, 4:09 pm

Hi Dave.. Yes i like this pix better than the old once... Not that the old once are ugly but just not enought..

Pushnell · Post by **Pushnell** » December 23rd, 2003, 4:51 pm

I think the night images need more/brighter stars. At first glance (until I really got my nose up to the screen), it looked like a drab solid-blue canvas.

Oh, and it seems a little odd to me that the moon would shift phases between first & second watch ....

Other than that, yes, they look great.

KK_r · Post by **KK_r** » December 23rd, 2003, 4:57 pm

I agree with Pushnell, the moon thing is a bit odd. But I really lika the two day pictures colors.

Svetac · Post by **Svetac** » December 23rd, 2003, 5:30 pm

I agree with KK-r and Pushnell. The day images are great, the night ones need brighter stars and some kind of discreet glow applied to the night.

Pushnell · Post by **Pushnell** » December 23rd, 2003, 6:18 pm

My Mods

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » December 23rd, 2003, 6:25 pm

Hmm, I think you may have over done it

I'd like to see the star size and brightness to be somewhere between the first pics and your mods.

Pushnell · Post by **Pushnell** » December 23rd, 2003, 6:32 pm

I can adjust that until people are happy, but I just noticed one other flaw ... the Dusk image has the half-moon image, while night is full-moon.

Back to photoshop

(I should have my new edits up in a little while, a few hours at most.) Before I dive in one last time, any opinions on half-moon/full moon?

KK_r · Post by **KK_r** » December 23rd, 2003, 7:22 pm

half-moon looks nicer

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » December 23rd, 2003, 7:30 pm

KK_r wrote:half-moon looks nicer

I concur. =D

Pushnell · Post by **Pushnell** » December 24th, 2003, 1:09 am

More Mods

This time, with all half-moons (facing the same direction

), and darker stars.

Post by **fmunoz** » December 24th, 2003, 2:15 am

Use the news

100% nicer
May you could add a dim light point or two in the castle/building at 1st watch?

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » December 24th, 2003, 2:27 am

fmunoz wrote: May you could add a dim light point or two in the castle/building at 1st watch?

Good Idea! Pushnell, the moon still looks like a different phase at night. Maybe you could shave off a few pixels so it matches the dawn/dusk moon.

zwol · Post by **zwol** » December 24th, 2003, 7:06 pm

Woodwizzle wrote:Pushnell, the moon still looks like a different phase at night. Maybe you could shave off a few pixels so it matches the dawn/dusk moon.

Also, the phase of the moon determines when it rises and sets. You've drawn a waxing crescent, which should rise and set only a few hours after the sun - it should be in the sky in the daytime and hardly at all at night.

I think it'd be good to get this phenomenon right. If you made the moon be consistently the way it is in the current night frames, then I think it should rise in the first full-daylight frame (have it just peeping over the mountains) and set in the first full-night frame, leaving the second full-night frame with no moon at all.

Down the road, it would be nifty to have a complete set of moon-phase pictures and rise times, which got applied based on the internal game calendar. And then make that have game effects, as time-of-day does now ... undead do better in true night than when there's a moon? Werewolves, anyone?

Post by **Dave** » December 24th, 2003, 7:40 pm

zwol wrote:And then make that have game effects, as time-of-day does now ... undead do better in true night than when there's a moon?

Traditionally, a full moon is associated more with undead-type creatures than no moon at all.

David

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