Re: [Bontz-team] fish monger

[Chuck]

darn you!  this email was so big it made me approve it before it sent out to the list!!!

you will probably need to make some more fish animations, because fish wriggling in a basket will look different from them flopping on the ground, but the fish look simple, so i assume that won't be too difficult.

 

ok, i got some more stuff for you....

here is what i picture....the guy brings them up to a dock and dumps them out, the fish then start flopping about towards the end of the dock,  then the flop of the end of the dock and into the water (insert splashing noise here)

we will need riples in the water...the water will probably need to be an animated tile set, and i don't know how you plan to do the splash

 

so what we need...a dock, an animated water tile set, each fish splashing into the water, and splashing sounds

 

here is my cheesy drawing to illustrate...(looks best with fixed width font)

 

 

  /-----------/

 /   ~..>    /|  

/_____~->___/  w ~..> w (splash)

|          |

 

 

in case you can't tell...the ~..> are fish...best i could do on a 4x22 ascii drawing

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Owen Swerkstrom" <address@hidden>

To: <address@hidden>

Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:28 AM

Subject: Re: [Bontz-team] fish monger

> 
> so how big do you want this guy?
> 
> The guy, about the same 
size as Furgason.  I've made
> another cheesy mock-up with furgason 
in this guy's
> place.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> It will be crowded for the fish, 
but that's just
> motivation for them to flop away as fast as possible! 
> :^)  I think have 'em flopping around almost in the
> same 
space, we'll make sure the basket is at least 128
> pixels wide so there's 
no chance of them poking
> through the sides.  If we really wanted to 
getfancy we
> could have one jump up extra high at random 
intervals
> (by sliding its sprite up a ways then right back down)
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Rather than multilayer sprites, how about think of 
it
> as two sprites in the same place: one the back of the
> basket, 
and one the guy and the front.  Between those
> two are the sprites 
of the fish, positioned so they're
> within the basket.  All 
single-layered sprites, just
> moving together.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Like I say we'll make 
sure the front of the basket
> covers up the area that the fish sprites 
could
> possibly use.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> 
perhaps.  And maybe in keeping with our twisted sense
> of humor the 
fish would have more sinister purposes as
> well...  I do like the 
idea of this guy being in the
> main game as well.  But what 
animation I do for him
> for the minigame probably won't be the same as in 
the
> main game.  The tedious part is modelling.  Thanks 
to
> blender's armatures, animation takes a lot less time. 
> So 
making this guy carrying around a basket isn't
> hard, just making him in 
the first place is.  In the
> main game maybe he's just got a big 
cart that he sells
> fish from or something.  It would be kinda 
awkward to
> come up and talk to a guy who's got this giant basket
> 
in front of him.
> 
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