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

[Timothy Anderson]

Okay, so just to recap, we're going to stick to a "flat" look, with
the exception of the "cylinder" menus, pretty exclusively, to keep the
hardware requirements down. And we're trying to get a nice "flowing"
effect/look that consumes a minimum of hardware resources as well. So,
given that, what are our options? We've talked about replacing pixels
with animated bitmaps, and I think I read something about bringing
back the "wave" effect from LW5. I personally liked that effect, but I
can understand leaving it out if it's too difficult to bring back.

What are some other ways we can get LW6 to look nicer? What are some
more options, from the coding standpoint? What more are we willing to
do?

On 10/2/09, Christian Mauduit <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, October 3, 2009 12:55 am, Kasper Hviid wrote:
>> else. But the word "liquid" in the title is only a result of  the
>> flowing nature of the armies movement. LW5 looked at lot more like
>> powder war.
> Don't forget that the game itself was born after finding a nice & fast
> shortest path algorithm. My friend Thomas, at that time, back in 1995,
> judged it looked like liquid, and that's how was born the concept. So
> distorting things, changing them, using them for what they were not meant
> to is just the true spirit of the game ;)
>
>> Sadly, my knowledge of OpenGL is very limited. I only know that it is
>> something which can create things that are cool!
> Basically OpenGL can do anything. Google Earth if you want. Mac OS X
> desktop. Those cool things, yeah. But the question is : what can we do for
> nothing, or at least, for a limited effort. By limited I mean not too CPU
> greedy and not too programmer crunching either. Hacking takes time ;)
>
> I think the way we're doing things now, just exchanging ideas and let me
> pick what's easy to do, isn't that bad.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> Christian.
>
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