Did we ever get woses?

Post by **Jetrel** » October 7th, 2006, 10:16 am

Boucman wrote:I like the idea of not having them bipedal anymore... makes them less antropomorphic

I balk, at first, but if we raise the root structure to less of a 90Ã‚Â° join with the trunk, it could work even better towards this end.

Personally, my favorite design that I've seen for such a thing was the "Tree of Life" from warcraft, although I wouldn't rip it off, per se.

Namely, I imagine the roots splitting into 3-5 "root feet", but, uh, it's hard to describe. A picture would be the best way.

In other notes, I don't like the color of the leaves on this whole batch, and one neo's earlier edits - though the color of the in-game ones could be improved, this wasn't it (except as a highlight color).

Interesting.

Website · Post by **Sapient** » October 7th, 2006, 11:34 am

I like the idea of the L1 having one trunk/leg which forms two more distinct legs as it levels up.

BTW, Neoriceisgood: great edit! It's looking nice now.

Post by **Jetrel** » October 10th, 2006, 7:24 am

Neo - if you have time, please do cleanup on the base frames of L2 and L3. I can take these from there, since woses don't exactly have the world's most _involved_ animations.

Post by **Neoriceisgood** » October 10th, 2006, 4:09 pm

Sure, cleaning up is a piece of cake

Post by **Neoriceisgood** » October 10th, 2006, 4:21 pm

*edit*

roflcoptar that's all 3 of em.

Website · Post by **Sapient** » October 10th, 2006, 5:25 pm

Bravo, the L2 and L3 are quite fearsome.

Post by **Jetrel** » October 10th, 2006, 7:47 pm

Neo, thanks a bajillion, that saves me a bunch of time.

It also looks totally sweet.

Post by **freim** » October 10th, 2006, 7:49 pm

I would drop the fruits (to similar to the eyes and make them look slightly silly imo), otherwise it looks great

Post by **Zhukov** » October 10th, 2006, 8:04 pm

The master has returned.

JW · Post by JW » October 10th, 2006, 8:24 pm

Truly awesome Neo.

I just have a Q as to why the beard's shading is straight-lined? That's the only thing that's been bugging me about the new sprites.

ps, I like the fruits because they allow TC. I also think they'd be fine if they didn't allow that.

Post by **Jetrel** » October 10th, 2006, 9:05 pm

JW wrote:ps, I like the fruits because they allow TC. I also think they'd be fine if they didn't allow that.

I'm going to make the "fruits" into flowers, not unlike what the shyde has.

Website · Post by **Sapient** » October 10th, 2006, 10:41 pm

I'm going to go against the consensus and raise an anatomical violation. I can picture their fruits/flowers changing color for different alliances, but changing eye color is a bit of a stretch. I imagine all woses should have the same eye color.

Post by **turin** » October 11th, 2006, 12:51 am

If they fit inside the hex, commit them.

Post by **Pickslide** » October 12th, 2006, 2:46 am

Wowwie wow wow! Thems is some good wosing Neorice. It looks a little speckled to me on the foilage, but my play dough approach isn't the answer there.

Can't wait to see them in game now!

Post by **Jetrel** » October 20th, 2006, 6:31 am

Here's an edit of Neo's latest revision. Because of the widely-ranging luminosity values of the different team colors (a very important feature to have), I couldn't leave the eyes team-colored. They disappear for some colors, and are too visible for others. So I gave them white eyes, and a cloth wrapped around a wrist/branch to emphasize the team.

Note that the shadows still need major work, but after I fix those, I'll probably commit the base frames.

As far as the commit plan goes - I'll replace the existing animation images as they get done; which for these woses should actually be faster than for the trolls (crosses fingers). I am, however, going to delete the ancient wose death animation - I only replace those things if I can make a good end product, and the ancient wose would need a _h_u_g_e_ animation to be done right.