Re: [Ddmodd-developers] wall sprite 1. comments REQUIRED :-)

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Not bad for a first time at 3d graphics, but then, cubes are not exactly 
that hard to make :)  I'd probably get some better looking textures, and a 
few more features like something to support the side rails of the wall, like 
some arch thingies coming out from the wall underneath the railing (I don't 
know what they're called).

You want to be careful about the camera angle, if you notice, the sides are 
slanted, but they should be straight in order to look right in Dink.  Yet, 
if you turn the angle so the sides of the wall come directly down you'd be 
looking at the wall as if it were directly in front of you, which just would 
not look good in the Dink world.  I still haven't found a good way to 
correct that, but I haven't exactly tried real hard.

Also, if you want to add damage to the walls make sure the cubes have a good 
number of polygon divisions so you can make breaks in the wall with relative 
ease (you can't break a cube with no internal divisions!).  Unless of course 
you want to draw the damage on the wall in 2d when it wouldn't matter.

And lastly, if you're just going to show us sample images to look at please 
send them as jpegs or something smaller in size than a bitmap.  Sorry, but I 
only have 2mgs of space on this hotmail account :P

-Striker

(One more thing, I just had a disturbing thought; if my e-mail ever fills 
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message to its sender... which will send the message back to everyone else, 
including me... creating an endless loop of e-mails.  As you can see, this 
would suck.  Hopefully it will never happen, unless I get spammed by a virus 
with 200k attachments... again.)

>ok, this is my idea for a wall thing, probably the main city wall. what
>do you guys think?? they still need "features" added, things like battle
>damage, fire damage, etc. etc. etc. but i'd like to ask someone else to
>do that. My idea is that for each of the 4 directions, I'd like to have
>2-3 normal ones, but with some damage, 2-3 damaged ones (maybe partly
>crumbling?, and 1-2 really broken ones (just a pile of rubble). the
>former of the above should be easy to do, as all it requires is MSpaint,
>and a bit of practise. the damaged ones would be a little harder, and
>the final ones would probably require a complete overhaul of the
>graphics.. but yeah... any ideas??
>
>i thought maybe Glenn could do this... that is, if you have any spare
>time :-)
>
>so yeah, after recieving all your comments on this model, ill begin to
>produce the 4 directions, and ill post them to teh list, and to teh CVS
>as well.
>
>thanks.
>
>--
>The software required Win95 or better, so I installed Linux.
>Thomi Richards,
>th...@im...
><< wall-horiz-01.bmp >>

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