Re: [Bontz-team] fish monger

[Chuck]

so how big do you want this guy?
i sort of picture it as having a single sprite with the full animatiion of
the fish flopping in the basket...and one without...
otherwise you are going to have to have one BIG sprite to allow him to carry
all the fish, or even just one fish.
either that, or maybe shrink down the fish a little?

this guy is going to need a lot of layers if you actually want to combine
two sprites and have the program animate it
we will need a background layer mostly for the basket, a middle layer with
the fish, and then a forground layer to cover everything else up.  currently
i have nothing set up to do multilayer sprites. but i think it is possible.
the hardest part may be hiding the full fish in the middle layer, so it
doesn't poke through the sides of the basket. any ideas?  also i may need a
new format for the info file to allow something like this.

the reason i think we need full animation for all directions is that i
picture using it as a NPC in the game and if we want him to be able to
wonder around, then we are going to need full animation in all directions.
we will probably have to have some sort of fish market.  go to the fish
market buy fish, eat the fish and they return your health?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Owen Swerkstrom" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 9:34 AM
Subject: [Bontz-team] fish monger


> I like the idea, and since it'll be work for me I
> naturally have an idea that will be work for you too!
> Mwaha.  I envision a sprite with several layers so
> that all the fish will be flopping around amongst
> themselves in a big basket that the guy carries out.
> I think the guy should carry the thing in one
> direction, however we want him to show up on the
> screen, dump the fish, then turn around and leave.
> Unless you want the player to control the fish monger,
> in which case I need a re-think.  But this would give
> us what you're talking about, a complex animation (and
> sprites overlapping each other)
>
> the attached cheesy preconception is sort of
> exaggerated, the basket wouldn't need to be so huge
> (or so deep anyway) for carrying four fish, but you
> get the idea.  As for the look of the guy, that'll
> probably change too.  Perhaps a characateur (sp?) of
> you, since you've always got your fish shirts on...
> :^)
>
>
>
> --- Chuck <address@hidden> wrote:
> > the modules don't exist on the /cvsroot level they
> > exist on the
> > /cvsroot/bontz level, so it was unable to put the
> > lib and media where they
> > are supposed to be.
> >
> > whew, you had me worried for a second.
> > why don't you just stick with what you are good at,
> > and do some more
> > graphics for me before you break something else ;-)
> >
> > and i know this is getting ahead of myself, but i
> > sort of picture some
> > strange looking guy (the fish monger/s) bring the
> > fish out in a basket or
> > something and dump them out at the starting line.
> > if you like that idea, i
> > will need walking animation tracks for him/her/it
> > (preferably for all
> > directions N S E W NW NE SW SE you will need to look
> > at mucka's info file to
> > find the correct order for the directions) and also
> > one of him/her/it
> > dumping the fish out.  or maybe each fish has it's
> > own person bring them
> > out?  whatever you want to do, because it sounds
> > like it will be a lot of
> > work.  and if you do decide to put a lot of work
> > into the fish monger we
> > will make sure he gets reused somewhere else as an
> > NPC so you don't think he
> > is wasted on this lousy minigame.
> >
> > i figure this would be a good test to make a complex
> > animation using
> > multiple sprites, it will also require me to add
> > functions so i know when an
> > animation loop has finished, and to specifiy to only
> > loop the animation a
> > single time.  along with other problems yet to be
> > discovered.
> >
> > > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bontz-team
>
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