On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:40:12AM +0100, Johanna Ploog wrote:
> On 4 March 2011 23:49, David Ploog <dpl...@mi.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> I've been meaning to ask: There are a couple of places where we've
> scheduled the removal of something (Paladins, scrolls of blank paper,
> trap mimics, anything that might be postponed). Do we need to handle
> that for 0.8? For example, we'll probably need to add a special case
> to make sure scrolls of blank paper really don't turn up in the item
> knowledge screen. (They're currently called "old paper", I believe.)
This was done to not break save compatibility in trunk unless badly needed.
There is no need to keep final 0.8 compatible with games started in trunk at
some point -- trunk players can continue using, well, trunk.
> I'm looking at the list of missing tiles right now...
> Is the Homunculus spell actually in the game yet?
No.
> What about the Abyss monsters?
No, but their tiles are all ready -- even if some are rotting on Mantis.
> that leaves tiles for Tornado
We have redundant tiles for the spell / miscast already. Denzi made one
that is better but not consistent with other vortices.
The effect itself looks abysmal, and can't be fixed merely with adding a
tile. I don't know how to show it -- a lame solution would be to have
semi-rotating cloud tiles of two brightnesses using the console's pattern.
> Leda's,
The spell has a tile, for the effect, see above -- it's on one wagon with
Tornado.
> the phoenix,
Not in the game.
> pillars of salt
Needed, although "rabid wallaby shaped" is not vital. It would be bad to
have orc-shaped pillars look the same as rabid wallaby or cacodemon ones,
but it's pure decoration.
We might even generate them procedurally, ensuring an executioner and a
cacodemon don't get turned into a generic "demon" pillar...
> and possibly a better silence overlay.
Functionality-wise, current silence is better than, say, current halo which
doesn't show at all unless a monster wanders by.
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