Generic Unit Portraits

[Dave]

wouldn't it be better to have the ones needed for the shipped campaigns first?

Only if someone wants to work on them. Wesnoth development is driven by what developers and contributors want to do, not by what users want. This is a big distinguishing factor from commercial games.

David

[luciano]

wouldn't it be better to have the ones needed for the shipped campaigns first?

Only if someone wants to work on them. Wesnoth development is driven by what developers and contributors want to do, not by what users want. This is a big distinguishing factor from commercial games.

David

Of course. My intention was only to give a suggestion on where to start, in case that was needed.

Given that there are 150 or so units, and that just a handful of those have lines in the current scenarios, it makes sense to start from the few ones that are needed currently.

Then, actually, I'd enjoied playing the Dark Hordes campaign - pity the abrupt ending - and I'm very curious on how jason could draw Gwiti, for example.

[Jetrel]

Then, actually, I'd enjoied playing the Dark Hordes campaign - pity the abrupt ending - and I'm very curious on how jason could draw Gwiti, for example.

"The Dark Hordes" is in limbo because - first, we are not sure if Pickslide has done art for the thing, and second - we are not sure where Circon is.

Or at least I'm not. I suppose I should actually check into that, sometime soon.

[Jason Lutes]

Good guys face to the right, bad guys face to the left!

but maybe you should flip the Thug line?

I did that on purpose (having the Thug line portraits face left instead of right) to mix it up some. My basic plan is to have all units of the same line face the same direction to add to the feeling of "transformation," but to switch off the facing direction from line to line.

Does this seem too inconsistent? What is everyone's preference in regard to the facing issue?

[Woodwizzle]

I like the idea, variety is the spice of life.

[Elvish_Pillager]

Make all Lawful units face right, all Chaotic units face left, and Neutral units whichever way (or based on which alignment they're associated with --- Elves lawful, and Dwarves chaotic)

[xtifr]

we are not sure where Circon is.

Hmm, seems to me that official campaigns should be maintained by the official maintainers. This is supposed to be an open source project...

If Circon ever reappears, and decides he doesn't like some of the changes made in his absence, well, he can always go back to an earlier version - that's one of the nice things about CVS.

Make all Lawful units face right, all Chaotic units face left

Boring! I definitely prefer the mix-them-up option.

[luciano]

Does this seem too inconsistent? What is everyone's preference in regard to the facing issue?

What about having the portraits flipped left or right depending on the dialogues? That is, in a campaign, have the player units facing left, and the foes facing right.

The shadows may be a bit odd for the right-facing units, but that should not be too bad.

[Jason Lutes]

What about having the portraits flipped left or right depending on the dialogues? That is, in a campaign, have the player units facing left, and the foes facing right.

I thought of doing something like that, but wouldn't that mean we'd need two copies of every portrait, effectively doubling their size as a game component?

[Dave]

What about having the portraits flipped left or right depending on the dialogues? That is, in a campaign, have the player units facing left, and the foes facing right.

I thought of doing something like that, but wouldn't that mean we'd need two copies of every portrait, effectively doubling their size as a game component?

If we were to do this it'd be done in the game's code, not by having two copies of each portrait.

I don't think we should worry about which way the portraits face. If we decide to change them later, it's incredibly easy to do so, so it's not something we have to worry about up-front.

David

[Jason Lutes]

Completed Peasant -> Spearman line is up here.

[Woodwizzle]

MAN, those are lookin' good.