phoenix[illusion] offering help

[Tzar]

phoenix[illusion] from Tsardoms TW offering help.
I can say that his work is top notch. He is very good skinner and he did most of the skins for Tsardoms.
I think he will be a useful addition to the team.

[dvk901]

Fine by me. Can he make the larger pictures for the building cards? What's left to do? We still need 'captains_portraits' in the UI folder...they're still the old ones.

[cherryfunk]

Any chance we can get higher resolution unit cards? When you blow them up to 1900x1200 they start to look pretty blurry...

[pacco]

Any chance we can get higher resolution unit cards? When you blow them up to 1900x1200 they start to look pretty blurry...

That would be great, but I think that is not possible. They are 48x64.
In other case how many people will play RS2 with that resolution? Probably 3%.

Ohh, on topic - I say yes if we need one more skinner.

[cherryfunk]

I think a lot of people will be playing with high resolutions, especially if we want the mod actively played for the next few years... it's one of the aspects that shows the engine's age vs. M2 or ETW.

[tone]

What's he offering to help with?

[dvk901]

There are roughly 3600 unit cards involved and we're STILL not done with the ones we need just so every unit has a card.
What would be 'nice' isn't always what would be practical.

[leif_erikson]

There are roughly 3600 unit cards involved and we're STILL not done with the ones we need just so every unit has a card.
What would be 'nice' isn't always what would be practical.

What!? 3600? Geez I never thought about the total number Well I have a few left for free greek/barbs and slave.

Cherry we have 500 units but many of them are shared between factions with different skins for each.

Regarding the ui card resolution there's not much we can do about it. I'm playing on 1680x1050 and on my screen they are looking alright.

[pacco]

I'm playing on 1680x1050 and on my screen they are looking alright.

I play on same resolution and they look OK to me too.

@Dvk
I think there are still lot of cards from RS 1.5c ( UI folder) and we don´t need them.

[cherryfunk]

How can there be 3600 cards when there's 500 units?

I'm thinking about longevity here -- switching back and forth between the three games, I can instantly see where RS looks dated; it's not the units or the environments, it's the lower resolution 2D artwork that doesn't hold up on big monitors...

[dvk901]

There are 3600 because so many units are owned by all factions...so every faction has two cards for boatloads of mercs and AOR units. They are named the same, but splattered all over in different directories.
Rome has about 400 all by themselves.

[tone]

Cherry,
Worth making sure you've got antialising on full and 32bit colour. It certainly makes a big difference for the units (antialiasing) and clouds (32 bit colour)

[cherryfunk]

I'll check...

[Tzar]

Like I said he is very good skinner and would be waste to use him for 'captains_portraits' or stuff like that. I will ask him to contact Tone or Dvk since you guys know what else need to be done.

[Brusilov]

Like I said he is very good skinner and would be waste to use him for 'captains_portraits' or stuff like that. I will ask him to contact Tone or Dvk since you guys know what else need to be done.

I think it may well be that the unit skinning is complete and there are just the 'less sexy' bits to do. They are all essential and add to the mod. Can you imagine the game with vanilla portraits.

[tone]

Indeed...the main thing I'd suggest that we need to work on now are environment textures - buildings, ambient stuff, trees, bushes.

[Father Jack]

The horror of vanilla portraits!

[rory o'kane]

Speaking of Unit Cards - Late Praetorians 1st Cohort lacks a unit card.

[pacco]

I made it... Maxim Victor probably didn´t put that one in game.

[leif_erikson]

I made it... Maxim Victor probably didn´t put that one in game.

Can you send it to me? That one and the other one you did and are not included. I will send those together with my latest ones to dvk later on this week