Re: [Help-liquidwar6] Liquid War 6 eye candy

[Timothy Anderson]

Hahah. Alright. That's clear. You want this version to work well on
moderate to low end hardware; anything else will have to be a project
for the future. Sounds good.

If the "fluid"/"liquid"/whatever just looked a little more like it did
in 5 I think it would be great. But obviously, if there's a better way
to represent it, then it doesn't make sense to push that concept
either. I was just thinking that if you were considering adding
bitmaps and animations to it, then there might be a creative way to
make it look more like real water in a way that didn't eat up the CPU.
But I suppose I might be a little out of my league in assuming that
too. I don't know.

I'm currently transferring from Windows to Mint. As soon as I get
Photoshop and some of my other programs installed I'll see if I can
come up with some more concepts for the display.

Tim

On 9/28/09, Christian Mauduit <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, September 27, 2009 1:16 am, Timothy Anderson wrote:
>> (oil, water, etc.) that would be perfect, I think. The trouble is
>> obviously finding a creative solution in applying that effect while
>> keeping the game legacy compatible.
> Just to make things clear : if I (or someone else) ever implements some
> fancy display that possibly burns out even the most recent CPU/GPU, you
> can be sure the current mode will stay available for "low-end" hardware.
> It's just like what I was telling you about the menu : cylinder is here to
> stay. The family might grow with another style, but cylinder will still be
> available.
>
> In practice, there's a "menu-style" attribute that, for now, has only one
> possible value, it's "cylinder". And there's also a "view-style" attribute
> that, for now, has only one possible value, it's "flat". In the
> middle/long term, there might be more "view styles". That's all. The
> current implementation has the advantage to require moderate hardware.
>
> Just FYI, the one very-special representation I want to implement some day
> is a full 3D perspective with "polarity" leading to different (possibly
> quadric) surfaces. For instance, polarity +1,+1 lets you play on a tore.
> 0,+1 can be mapped on a cylinder or, to some extent, a sphere (if you
> neglect poles). 0,-1 requires a Moebius ring. -1,+1 is a Klein bottle if I
> remember well. I've still not found anything for the -1,-1 case, I dunno
> if it has a real 3D surface it can be mapped on. Not that I'm going to
> code that tomorrow but well, I think it's just good to know the "idea box"
> is just full-packed, which is IMHO much better than the opposite -> no
> more ideas...
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> Christian.
>
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