[Wesnoth-dev] New mage/fireball images/halos, drake consequences

[Richard Kettering]

I just committed a huge chunk of unit/image goodness into the cvs 
repository.
All the images for our mages and their fireballs have been completely 
replaced.
(Literally - I think the only exception is the illumination aura. )

Given the magnitude of this, I may have made a mistake or two I am not 
aware of.  If anyone sees any missing animations or graphical glitches 
before the next release, please inform me, and I'll try and remedy the 
situation as quickly as possible.


However, such a big change did step on one dependency - with this, all 
of the drakes have had their use of mage halos broken.
Given that, if they were to use the new ones properly, they would need 
to have their unit files modified *anyways*, there really wasn't any 
other way to go about this.
Thus, they, and potentially the Elvish Lord will need to have their 
unit files amended to use the new projectiles and halos.

If anyone (like shade, for example) would be willing to do this for me, 
this would free up a good deal of time for me to keep making new 
images.
In doing so, I would just look at the new mage cfg files to see how to 
use the images.

That said, I would also like to strongly propose switching the Elvish 
Lord to using a similar type of magic as the Elvish Sorceress/Sylph, 
rather than a fireball.  I personally think that would help to make for 
coherent racial magic "identities", and would not really affect 
gameplay, given the availability of fire-magic on most factions that 
use the unit (ex: Konrad's troops).  Of course, to make this happen, I 
will be more than happy to do the few images necessary.

Cheers.
- Richard