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Re: Desert Elves

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I would think a camel :p
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I make a camel.
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Theres 2 good ones in the frankenpack.
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They need changing, making them wider for one.
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woodmouse wrote:I make a camel.
I'm not stopping you from making a camel, but I'm not very sure that Mist would approve of it. He had, however, some time ago, request a lizard rider, which I have created a base frame for and nothing else. You can go ahead and use what I made to create a new lizard rider. But as I said, I'm not stopping you from making a camel, it's just that there's no guarantee it'd be used.

Here's the sharpshooter defend frame also:
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Ok, I make a new lizard rider. :) A completely from scratch lizard... But I use a elf and edit it.
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woodmouse wrote:Ok, I make a new lizard rider. :) A completely from scratch lizard... But I use a elf and edit it.
Great, can we see it then? :)

Here are the ranged frames for the sharpshooter:
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Yep, you can see it.
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Two colors, I didn't know which one is the best so I upload both. What do you like?
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woodmouse wrote: Two colors, I didn't know which one is the best so I upload both. What do you like?
Not bad IMO but that's for Mist to decide.
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Federalist marshal wrote:Not bad IMO but that's for Mist to decide.
Thanks! :D I hope Mist likes them... :lol2:
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Here's the hunter; it uses some of Karo's work, and uses some of mine. I hope it works...
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Re: Desert Elves

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I think it would be much better if you could give him another head or at least some goodies to give home more personnality. The same head is used for too many sprites. It would be silly to make this great work look bad in-game because of this...
The bolas are a bit small. We can barely see theim.
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(To Woodmouse)
The lizard is good, just it doesn't really fit in the Wesnoth style. Did you do it pixel-by-pixel?
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WYRMY wrote:(To Woodmouse)
The lizard is good, just it doesn't really fit in the Wesnoth style. Did you do it pixel-by-pixel?
No, I didn't do it pixel by pixel. I made it so I first drew the lines, then edited them to look better. And I noticed there is a place where is no outline... well.
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Re: Desert Elves

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Regarding the ranged attacks: the behavior of the bow is so unrealistic as to be positively surreal. As someone else pointed out (too lazy to go back and find the comment), when a bow is drawn (pulled), the region of greatest curvature is towards the ends. The current art has it bending in the middle, almost as if it were hinged. But this is only the first and most minor problem.

When a bow bends, the top comes down and the bottom goes up. With the current art, particularly for the Desert Archer ranged frames, the height of the bow is unchanged when it curves. Which means that it's magically extending--a sort of "telescoping" bow. On top of that, the bowstring magically becomes much longer as well--much, much longer. Bowstrings do not stretch--at least not if they're working properly. :) What this means is that the distance from the drawing hand to the tip of the bow should be exactly half the length of the bowstring when undrawn.

Basically, when a bow is drawn, it goes from a "bow-like" shape to an almost horseshoe-like shape. And the shorter the bow (and the desert archers' bows are really short), the more curved and horseshoe-like the bow will become when drawn.

Think about it: if a bow were the length of your arm, it would have to bend over completely double and flat when you drew it all the way back. Which is why the minimum possible theoretical length for a bow is slightly longer than the length of your arm. And the shorter the bow, the closer it will come to that extreme of doubling over.
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