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hopbeat 2009-12-17 14:10

Re: Artists and designers - I need help: sheep!
 
Great graphics!
I think that for the engine I will go with electric charges, so the sheep will be attracted and scared by various 'charges' and will move according to the sum of the vectors. This way they will be moving towards the point of local highest potential.
Having that, it should be simple to incorporate all the proposed solutions, i.e. accelerometers, touch control, running dog control, different species etc.

Comments about this, before I get to work? :)

lcuk 2009-12-17 14:10

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Originally Posted by ciroip (Post 431893)
I was thinking the same, the wolf is a vectorium lupus so is used to be streched, + the entire thing reminded me a bit of the Dino Dini 'Kick Off': an alternative to scale down the sprites could be to make the field bigger (something like 2x2 screens?) ; that would need real men developers to manage the panning and a 'radar map' but would look better on screenshots ( ;) ). An alternativa approac could be to zoom in and out but that is a completely new world of complications. Let me finish my coffee and Ill move on a computer for the svg wolf

hmmm how about head to head on 2 n900s o_O
thats for another thread tho ;)

panning and zooming is easy, however liqbase doesnt support polyfil routines yet, someone would have to write them, or use bitmap scaling as an alternative

Fargus 2009-12-17 14:26

Re: Artists and designers - I need help: sheep!
 
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Originally Posted by RevdKathy (Post 427434)
Lasers would scare the sheep. Tasers, otoh... are used for cattle occasionally. And herding elephants.

Too much 'encouragement' and the sheep fall over for a 'snooze' until the shocks wear off?

Fargus 2009-12-17 14:28

Re: Artists and designers - I need help: sheep!
 
Is it just me or is this discussion starting to sound like the inside of a Jeff Minter realilty? All we need now are Llamas or some Camels and the picture would be complete!

ciroip 2009-12-17 14:28

Re: Artists and designers - I need help: sheep!
 
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Originally Posted by lcuk (Post 431900)
panning and zooming is easy, however liqbase doesnt support polyfil routines yet, someone would have to write them, or use bitmap scaling as an alternative

I vote for bitmap scaling
AFB was right: garage is down... Any other acceptable fileserver/service alternative that will not hurt the community sensitivity?
Meanwhile I attached the svg here.
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Originally Posted by Fargus (Post 431918)
Is it just me or is this discussion starting to sound like the inside of a Jeff Minter realilty? All we need now are Llamas or some Camels and the picture would be complete!

still not psychedelic enough...

Fargus 2009-12-17 14:31

Re: Artists and designers - I need help: sheep!
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by lcuk (Post 431900)
hmmm how about head to head on 2 n900s o_O
thats for another thread tho ;)

panning and zooming is easy, however liqbase doesnt support polyfil routines yet, someone would have to write them, or use bitmap scaling as an alternative

Just a thought, what about parallex scrolling? The desktop supports it so I am sure that will be part of the hardware acceleration instruction set. You could combine the multi-screen and radar elements with a defender style wrap-around for play area.

For 'mechandising' how about a theme? :) Change the haptic feedback to a smapled 'baaa'?

(Time for the medication again I think!)

andrewfblack 2009-12-17 14:54

Re: Artists and designers - I need help: sheep!
 
I think we just need to give garage a few days to get upgraded. For not just share stuff here.

andyfrommk 2009-12-17 19:41

Re: Artists and designers - I need help: sheep!
 
Here is my attempt in Blender3D, the sheep is very basic and it looks more like a duck
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/4613/herder.jpg

RevdKathy 2009-12-17 19:50

Re: Artists and designers - I need help: sheep!
 
Lovely pens, though!

RevdKathy 2009-12-19 16:44

Re: Artists and designers - I need help: sheep!
 
Any news on whether our sheep are coming homeward one by one... anyone heard any sheep bells across the lonely air yet?

(Damn, these Christma carols are infecting me!)


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