Archers drawing bows...

Post by **Darth Fool** » April 7th, 2004, 10:36 pm

Not to fear, I fully intend to not fix the orcs wimpy draw. Why do you think they upgrade to crossbows anyway?

Eponymous-Archon · Post by **Eponymous-Archon** » April 7th, 2004, 10:41 pm

Kamahawk wrote:
Eponymous-Archon wrote:Actually, the human bowman are based on the orcish archers IIRC...
WHAT!?!

I did the origionals for the human bowman and there were no orcish parts involved and I don't think any of the stuff you did to their graphics afterwards had orcish components.

Oops, my bad. There were based on something though. No, I stole pieces of Elves actually.

Post by **Neoriceisgood** » April 8th, 2004, 5:59 pm

Hey I made two bow frames for the Champion and tought it was best to post it here, hope you guys can use them.

Post by **Darth Fool** » April 8th, 2004, 6:26 pm

Ok here are my versions of the human bowman (longbowman already has a long draw...)

Post by **Darth Fool** » April 8th, 2004, 6:28 pm

And my versions of the Champion ranged attacks. I didn't finish the hero. That will be done tomorrow....

Post by **Neoriceisgood** » April 8th, 2004, 7:04 pm

Oh hm......to be honoust I like my sword better, but in animation I think your bow would be a much better choise. I didn't realy animate on mine heh

Post by **Darth Fool** » April 8th, 2004, 8:12 pm

Neoriceisgood wrote:Oh hm......to be honoust I like my sword better, but in animation I think your bow would be a much better choise. I didn't realy animate on mine heh

Yes, I defintately liked the curved end of your sword better. Mine was a direct cut/rotate of the one used for the defense frame. I think it is good to have that sort of consistancy, so if people want the curved blade, it should be changed in all the champions pictures.

Post by **Darth Fool** » April 9th, 2004, 4:12 pm

OK, here are some new hero graphics...

Post by **turin** » April 9th, 2004, 6:26 pm

do you really want to have him drop the shield? it might be less confusing for it to just dissapear (visually confusing, that is. it does make little logical sense for a shield to disappear for two frames that pop back into the person's hand.

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Post by **Dave** » April 9th, 2004, 6:28 pm

It's better to just make things like shields disappear. Remember that the animation is just a rough representation of what's happening. In reality, a unit must move over a long distance to attack so they have plenty of time to discard their shield. In the 'summary animation' I think it's better for the shield to just disappear.

David

Post by **Darth Fool** » April 9th, 2004, 6:44 pm

Oddly enough, I saved a version without the shield, just in case....

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » April 9th, 2004, 6:49 pm

Would you really need to take off such a small shield to shoot a bow? Why not just keep it on? If that's no good though, I'd rather see it dissappear than fall to the ground.

Post by **Darth Fool** » April 10th, 2004, 7:12 pm

Ok, I've gone back aand looked at the champion bow frames and realized that I lost a row of pixels on the sword tips, which made it look a little funny, and the shading was all upside down, so I've played with them a little making the sword a little more like the champion neorice is good did , but with the correct scale from the champion at rest frame, ie. with the correct size etc...

Post by **fmunoz** » April 10th, 2004, 10:22 pm

Good work again, guys!
Added the hero images, Champion's later