World of Wesnoth (MMORPG add-on project)

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I'd like to take a little break too. Its very stressful at the moment and there has been a new situation in my real life as well, which is - lets say - very annoying.
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:( Well, I have to write the core code, and it is far from being finished by now, and without it, most other things are quite pointless.
I hope you'll be able to return when I finish the most necessary things.

But I will be much less active during early winter as well, I am at university, I have exams, and I have to learn a lot, theoretical physics isn't easy.
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Good luck for your exams. For now I need to slow things down now. Too many open projects, not enough focus.
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so.. finally back, finished nearly all exams^^ wanted to ask if you still work on this or not? if yes is there anything to do?
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I am just returning to it. I also finished my exams. So yes, can be said we still work.

Atm, unit graphics are completely non-existant, so I think you might make some baseframes for now. The unit will be basically a collage of several images, so the positions of weapons and shields should be generic. Try to make a male, female and macho baseframe, then some weapons that would be placed over them, shields, helms, and armours (light, medium, heavy, clothing). Colour all clothes and weapons grey, I already have written a piece of code that can colour them according to data files. Have no shame to frankenstein other sprites.
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what kind of weapons exactly? one type of shields or different? tower, heavy etc

heres a first try for he male base not even nearly finished but is the height etc ok?
his hands are too big but i find it difficult to make them look like hands when they are smaller..
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Weapons mean sword, rapier (basically, just a curved sword), axe, mace, wand and dagger. There can be only one kind of shield for now. From distance, the sprite looks okay, proportions look correct, the details will be polished later, when we'll have all parts drawn.
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here, i have no idea about the wand: staff? small wand? bigger wand? there are simly too many possibilities.. and about the shield a round one? a tower? or something between them?
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Wand is meant to be some kind of a smaller staff, held in one hand, like the one Mage holds.
I need the weapons to be in a 72x72 px transparent square in a position so that when it is placed over the character, it looks like if it was in his hand. Sorry if it sounds too bossy, but I would have to do that myself otherwise and I am quite busy writing lua codes (atm, I am writing the codes for character level-up), I want to create an alpha that would be playable to a certain extent, so that Heindal could make more quests, locations, scenarios, etc.

Additionally, can you please fill the requirements for higher skill levels in this file:
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accordingly to the skills list we discussed? (it is filled for barbarian, so it should be easy to learn how to do it for other classes, deciding about the details is up to you)

Another success, this window checks for requirements for skills, lists those that aren't met, and generally lets you advance to a new level. I hope to figure out later how to improve the appearance.
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looks nice (the window) ill try to make all the weapons as you asked and the file tile tomorrow evening as i dont have time today anymore.
About the lua code: its good that you focus on it as i cant write that or help you with it.. i tried but its just too complicated yet for me.
I will start the other sprites tomorrow as well although we maybe should first improve the details of the current version and "upgrade" it to woman/macho afterwards?
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looks nice (the window) ill try to make all the weapons as you asked and the file tile tomorrow evening as i dont have time today anymore.
No problem, there is a lot of things to do so that some of them can wait till I do other things.
About the lua code: its good that you focus on it as i cant write that or help you with it.. i tried but its just too complicated yet for me.
I didn't know how to write it when I begun with this add-on.
I will start the other sprites tomorrow as well although we maybe should first improve the details of the current version and "upgrade" it to woman/macho afterwards?
Yes, it is a good idea to draw them first for one sprite and then improve it for others.
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Hey, Dugi. The options for the Skill Improvement could better if you would resize them (reduce the height). :hmm:

Anyways, is this thing playable yet, cause I want to be a beta-tester?
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its not even alpha actually.. as far as i know we have currently only decided the basic structure. made a few placeholdersprites, one single unfinished scenario with a map and the char creation isnt finished yet as well.. although all those things are in progress..
However thats what i know, maybe dugi is already further?

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here are the first 4 weapons that look ok plus the holding position
i will have to remake the scimitar/curved sword and make a staff that fits as the current one dont ...
the axe may look strange but because the picture will be mirrored most of the gaming time it looks good (in my opinion)
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Hey, Dugi. The options for the Skill Improvement could better if you would resize them (reduce the height).
That is easy to tell, hard to do. The size had to be pointlessly increased because otherwise it crashed, these GUIs are badly bugged. The size is determined by the size of the picture, but with size of the picture 16x19 it crashed when I clicked on a skill (even if I disabled all callback functions related to it). I had to enlarge it to 72x72 (standard sprite size) to make it work. Also, the skill level (if not zero) is displayed under the name of the skill, but all skills were at zero when I was making that screenshot. I should replace the icon for available and unavailable skill by something larger soon, I think.
However thats what i know, maybe dugi is already further?
Okay, I can tell you the level of progression:

What IS done:
Character creation
First scenario, densely populated with monsters
Attributes and their effects on character properties
Items


What is PARTIALLY done:
Inventory control (not all item properties are coded, it is possible to equip any item)
Character properties window (shows only some properties)
Advancing (not all changes are done yet)


What is NOT done at all:
Skills and their effects on the character
Magic
Randomised item generation
Quests


So I can conclude that we are still far from needing beta testers. Not even alpha testers. In fact, we are far from needing any testers at all yet. But I'll let you know when we will need.
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i edited mylast post just so you see
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