Comments on: Arty, first look http://www.brainfold.org/blog/2008/06/19/arty-first-look/ On Python, game development and everything Fri, 21 May 2010 13:34:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jussi Lepistö http://www.brainfold.org/blog/2008/06/19/arty-first-look/comment-page-1/#comment-1495 Jussi Lepistö Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:14:05 +0000 http://www.brainfold.org/blog/?p=73#comment-1495 Thanks for the suggestions, though most I've already thought about. :) Player indicators will be coming in. Terrain will have better texturing. And the GUI in general, including the aiming indicator, is all temporary. Thanks for the suggestions, though most I’ve already thought about. :) Player indicators will be coming in. Terrain will have better texturing. And the GUI in general, including the aiming indicator, is all temporary.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.brainfold.org/blog/2008/06/19/arty-first-look/comment-page-1/#comment-1454 Stephen Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:05:45 +0000 http://www.brainfold.org/blog/?p=73#comment-1454 Very nice work, Jussi. I know it's still early in development, but I'm going to pop out a few suggestions that you may or may not already be already planning: -> Ramp-up acceleration when the camera leaves the current player. It feels too sudden/disorienting when the camera first pulls away, but it's decelerating nicely when it arrives at the target player. -> Arrows/indicators over players when the map is zoomed out to a certain amount. They really blend in with the terrain currently. Perhaps have the tanks use more extravagant/vibrant colours that would create more contrast? -> Levels of terrain detail based on zoom-amount would be awesome. Right now zooming out far makes the texture tiling painfully obvious, but secondary textures designed for far-out shots could add a lot. -> This might just be the video compression, but the aiming arrows for the players was a little hard to see. Perhaps opting for something that's more visible, like a 'laser guider' or something, with a glow effect to make it really obvious to the user. Very glad to see that things are progressing so nicely. Keep us on the down low. ;) Very nice work, Jussi. I know it’s still early in development, but I’m going to pop out a few suggestions that you may or may not already be already planning:

-> Ramp-up acceleration when the camera leaves the current player. It feels too sudden/disorienting when the camera first pulls away, but it’s decelerating nicely when it arrives at the target player.
-> Arrows/indicators over players when the map is zoomed out to a certain amount. They really blend in with the terrain currently. Perhaps have the tanks use more extravagant/vibrant colours that would create more contrast?
-> Levels of terrain detail based on zoom-amount would be awesome. Right now zooming out far makes the texture tiling painfully obvious, but secondary textures designed for far-out shots could add a lot.
-> This might just be the video compression, but the aiming arrows for the players was a little hard to see. Perhaps opting for something that’s more visible, like a ‘laser guider’ or something, with a glow effect to make it really obvious to the user.

Very glad to see that things are progressing so nicely. Keep us on the down low. ;)

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