Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Comets instead of UFOs

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Tuesday 28 August 2001 10:08am, William Kendrick wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:47:38AM -0700, Samuel Hart wrote:
> > I have been giving thought to our talks of using comets instead of UFOs,
> > and it occured to me, we actually already have some CG rock animation we
> > could use as the comets. All we would need to do is come up with
> > something to use as vapor trails following the rocks, and viola! We have
> > comets!
>
> Hmm...  I'm not sure how much I'd like to use the CG rocks.  At least,
> as they are at the moment.  They're a little too dark.  I could tweak
> them in Gimp, but...

They might brighten up once we add background graphics to the game.

Also, I still have the original Blender sources for them, so making new ones 
(with additional light sources) isn't a problem.

> ... I also would prefer to try and keep the sprites looking similar to
> each other (eg, cartoony).

Yeah, I do agree there.

> I can re-grab the tarball of original art and see what I can do with the
> 'shot' images.  They look pretty comet'ish already.  I think all we'll
> need to do is enlarge them some.

Okay, if you can give me new image sizes for each of these, I can go back and 
remake them from source (which helps clean them up, and keep the 
alpha-blending out of there ;-)

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