Showing towers in the process of building - IMPLMENTED

[COOLguy]

Can I claim fortresses towers and mega castle right now?
And I may try cool looking joinable walls maybe.
Tower suggestion: ok

[RiverRaider 1097]

New imaging is awesome guys, keep up the good work )

[COOLguy]

How about something like this for walls? Player color could be flags or something? Maybe shields like the old ones?

[Stratego (dev)]

excellent idea to make it 3D ish! cool!
(maybe could be a little higher.)

[RiverRaider 1097]

Awesome actual enclosed fortress in the future maybe adding bigger around towers that hold 4 units with a castle in the middle, now that would be a siege?

[COOLguy]

excellent idea to make it 3D ish! cool!
(maybe could be a little higher.)

Thanks! Do you mean a little higher like the front wall part? I used overlappers to cover the front part of the ones behind - do I need to make the overlappers longer?

[Stratego (dev)]

yes, but the cornered walls approach we emailed about would be the best.

[COOLguy]

Ok yes!

[Alexander82]

i like it even though is a bit too thick

[COOLguy]

Here is some build sequence for towers and fortresses. I gave you a lot of options to choose from, Daniel. What do you think?

[Stratego (dev)]

cool! they are up on server in 10 minutes.
(i decided to start from 2. images - since the first ones were barely visible.)

[COOLguy]

Ok, great!

[ollie444]

yes, but the cornered walls approach we emailed about would be the best.

What do you mean?

[COOLguy]

cool! they are up on server in 10 minutes.
(i decided to start from 2. images - since the first ones were barely visible.)

Quick question: Should there be team coloring while it is being built?

[Stratego (dev)]

i also thought about that, and was not sure.
maybe a little (very tiny) flag stung in the ground somewhere with a little stick?

in AOE they used 10-12 sticks in the contour of the "tile" having little player colored part on the top part of it.

so i think both is good idea:
- having little flag somewhere
- or having one (or some) sticks stung into ground somewhere witlh little 1-2 pixel coloring.

[Stratego (dev)]

i have experimentally defined a zero phase for the barracks, showing under conctruction (just logs and stones on ground)

here is the image.

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I think we can use this image for all buildings until we have nice images for all stages of the build.
what do u think?

the barrack zero phase is up on server.

[Stratego (dev)]

another version.

[Stratego (dev)]

ok, all 1x1 buildings have this last zero state image.
up on server in 5 minutes.

[COOLguy]

Ok, cool!

[Stratego (dev)]

also castle has a similar zero point image until we have a nice series of images.

[Stratego (dev)]

yes, but the cornered walls approach we emailed about would be the best.

What do you mean?

i drew sketch:

[ollie444]

How does it work? Is that a structure in itself or does it automatically change the image when a wall is next to it?

[Stratego (dev)]

here is the CoolGuy first version of the tileset.

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and here i suggested some shading 2 types:
- 1st image with contour
- 3rd image only shading

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and here is screenshot

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(actually this version is up on server currently.

[ejm29]

That looks so epic!

[ollie444]

Cool!!!!
I tried it myself and have feedback.
The default image for unfinished buildings does not work for tiles that have water on the north side - It looks like it floats on the water...
On the same tile, the Green bit that goes up the left side of image 2 3 and 4 looks like it is grass on the water. I suggest taking this green away. Also the wall connects to unbuilt walls, so you may want to change that.
But can I just say OMG this is freaking awesome!!!

[COOLguy]

Yay! It is great! The engine is a little buggy but is cool. I'm making the walls a bit shorter so that will help on the looks of it.

[COOLguy]

Here are watchtowers. How do they look?

[ejm29]

Look great! Nice image!

[Stratego (dev)]

ok! thanks! the outpost is in!

[Stratego (dev)]

this thread is closed, and i have opened a new about asking for construction images for other buldings.