Unit Height Corrections

Post by **Jetrel** » February 3rd, 2005, 10:04 am

Certain units, especially in the human race, are a bit too short right now. Some are so short that they fall into the same bracket as goblins, dwarves, and saurians.

We should increase their height - doing so will not foul up proportion, because our sprites are already drawn in somewhat of a "Super-Deform" style, with heads and hands that are WAAY too big for their bodies. This will simply make them slightly less so.

When doing this, we should be careful to keep units *slightly* larger as they level up, to provide an intuitive read on power (one major aspect of visual level differentiation).

This would be a perfect job for some folks like Shadow, or Sangel, or Disto, or anyone else itching to contribute.

The list is as follows:

The entire human spearman tree needs a few extra pixels of height - every unit. The royal guard, as the primary human melee unit, needs to be taller than most humans, and right now his is somewhat shorter than the average human/elf.
The human bowman needs to be adjusted so that he is a few pixels shorter than the longbowman, not the several pixels that he is now.
The orcish crossbowman also needs 3-5 extra pixels of height.

There are others, but these will take a huge bite out of the problem. In doing this, do not stretch the images, but rather move chunks of them apart with a selection tool, and manually fill in the pixels with the pencil tool, mimicking the patterns used around the empty portion, or extending plates of armor in a logical manner.

Also, shadow, if you use photoshop/gimp - be sure to set to filtering method in the preferences to "nearest neighbor" rather than "bilinear/bicubic".

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » February 3rd, 2005, 5:49 pm

IÃ‚Â´m just posting here the stuff that is finished

first the spear line

Post by **quartex** » February 3rd, 2005, 6:06 pm

Looks nice!

Post by **freim** » February 3rd, 2005, 6:14 pm

Yeah, Looks much better.

Post by **Sangel** » February 3rd, 2005, 6:19 pm

They look less "cutesy", more "noble". I kinda liked the "cutesy" feel, but if this standardises the graphics more, I suppose it's a good thing.

I'm busy working on graphics for Under the Burning Sun right now, but it looks like Shadow has the task well in hand, so I don't think I'm needed here.

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » February 3rd, 2005, 6:47 pm

Thanks

The swordline

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » February 3rd, 2005, 7:10 pm

The Longbowman I could make him only one pixel smaller the lv 1 seems to be almost OK

Ankka · Post by **Ankka** » February 3rd, 2005, 7:12 pm

Sangel wrote:They look less "cutesy", more "noble". I kinda liked the "cutesy" feel, but if this standardises the graphics more, I suppose it's a good thing.

I second that. I liked how the spearmen were kinda cute... don't change the goblin spearmen..

Post by **freim** » February 3rd, 2005, 7:34 pm

Ankka wrote:
Sangel wrote:They look less "cutesy", more "noble". I kinda liked the "cutesy" feel, but if this standardises the graphics more, I suppose it's a good thing.
I second that. I liked how the spearmen were kinda cute... don't change the goblin spearmen..

These are soldiers, they don't want to be qute

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » February 3rd, 2005, 7:38 pm

Ankka wrote:
Sangel wrote:They look less "cutesy", more "noble". I kinda liked the "cutesy" feel, but if this standardises the graphics more, I suppose it's a good thing.
I second that. I liked how the spearmen were kinda cute... don't change the goblin spearmen..

The spearman wasnÃ‚Â´t supposed to be changed for more cuteness I can advise Pokemon

All finished

ahwayakchih · Post by **ahwayakchih** » February 3rd, 2005, 8:23 pm

Shadow wrote:Thanks

The swordline

All look nice, except swordsman who's right leg looks like i was broken (or maybe he's preparing to sit on a toilette?

).

Disto · Post by **Disto** » February 7th, 2005, 5:28 pm

Something about the human spearman tree really annoys me so i might make my own version of it soon anyway, but it was annoying before anyway but good work.

Monkey · Post by **Monkey** » February 8th, 2005, 1:33 am

This may help
from left to right: human, halfling, gnome, half-orc, dwarf, half-elf, elf
and no, the gnome isn't catching the big guy's balls, he is casting a spell

Post by **turin** » February 8th, 2005, 1:50 am

Um... that's obviously incorrect for Wesnoth, since elves are bigger than men.

IAC, its not like there is a standard for any of this, and units aren't drawn to scale anyway.

Monkey · Post by **Monkey** » February 8th, 2005, 2:00 am

look at the size of elves in this other one
in nordic mithology elves are what we call today of gnomes, leprechauns, faeries etc.