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Phrogs!
Japan521 Posts
Minor things people have already said that I think too: ramps could be a little less steep to stand out more from the cliff, smoke cloud could go a little less high. Bigger suggestion, no clue at all how much work it would take: see on the kespa holy world one you linked there's the crazy red background -- Is it possible for you to easily implement something like that? Black space all around gives it a huge sense of being incomplete imo. Again, no idea how much work that would take. | ||
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MasterReY
Germany2708 Posts
1-6 and 9: ok/doesnt matter at all 7: i think no wireframe is best 8: maybe try to point out ramps a bit better.(if you dont know the map you dont notice its a ramp so fast) You shouldn't think about minor things like the gas smoking frequency or w/e. NObody will care enough so that its worth to make it perfect like in bw. The biggest issue is the "camera path". I think you don't get a good overview of the map with the camera swinging so fast and stuff. | ||
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maga33
United States247 Posts
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R3condite
Korea (South)1541 Posts
and darken the gridlines EDIT: also maybe u can have the camera follow a general path from one base to the middle? | ||
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VIB
Brazil3567 Posts
I'm also making a separate animated starting location and maybe I will try one version without the wireframe so you guys can see the difference. The main reason why the wireframe is there is to hide the terrain texture defects (it is very low res and looks very poor when looked closely). It's just an optical illusion trick to simulate a higher resolution. It might sound a bit silly, but it actually fools our brains pretty nicely  On May 25 2009 17:11 Scorch wrote: Not unless I can find a suitable library for loading map data written in either c++ or python (not likely). Wasting my time fixing other people's mistake (blizzard closing their sources) is not something I'm very excited about.First off, this is great! Are you planning on making this an automatic parser/converter for .scm and .scx files? On May 25 2009 21:49 Phrogs! wrote: That would be very easy and quick to do. But it's just not my goal to add external "fluff" details to it right now. I wanna make sure the map model itself looks good first. Then I'll add a background, texts, sound and a couple of different camera paths for showing off different parts of the map.Bigger suggestion, no clue at all how much work it would take: see on the kespa holy world one you linked there's the crazy red background -- Is it possible for you to easily implement something like that? Black space all around gives it a huge sense of being incomplete imo. Again, no idea how much work that would take. | ||
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YPang
United States4024 Posts
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GogoKodo
Canada1785 Posts
Not sure how up to date or useful it is for you. But it exists, in python to boot. Awesome work so far. | ||
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anderoo
Canada1876 Posts
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VIB
Brazil3567 Posts
On May 26 2009 10:11 GogoKodo wrote: That is a replay parser. It doesn't retrieve any of the map info that I would need. But thanks anyway.http://code.google.com/p/pyreplib/ Not sure how up to date or useful it is for you. But it exists, in python to boot. Awesome work so far. | ||
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[Fin]Vittu
Canada507 Posts
keep up the awesome work. | ||
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GogoKodo
Canada1785 Posts
On May 26 2009 13:37 VIB wrote: That is a replay parser. It doesn't retrieve any of the map info that I would need. But thanks anyway. Isn't the map information held within the replay in SC? You're able to load a replay even if you don't have the map. Don't know if that type of information is available in pyrep but it might be a jumping off point. | ||
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VIB
Brazil3567 Posts
On May 26 2009 14:26 [Fin]Vittu wrote: I always wondered what is it like to be in an hydralisk's shoes, but I guess I'll never know that is really cool, i've always wanted to know what it feels like to be in an sc unit's shoes.  On May 26 2009 15:35 GogoKodo wrote: Exactly, that only extracts info from the players' actions. I would need info from the map such as what points are high/low ground, what tiles each one use etc. Which is completely out of the scope of pyreplib.Don't know if that type of information is available in pyrep but it might be a jumping off point. | ||
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snorlax
United States755 Posts
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
I'm serious | ||
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Scorch
Austria3371 Posts
On May 26 2009 15:46 VIB wrote: I always wondered what is it like to be in an hydralisk's shoes, but I guess I'll never know Exactly, that only extracts info from the players' actions. I would need info from the map such as what points are high/low ground, what tiles each one use etc. Which is completely out of the scope of pyreplib. BWChart seems to be able to do that with its "Show Map" functionality, so it certainly is possible somehow. | ||
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MasterReY
Germany2708 Posts
its cool | ||
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poilord
Germany3252 Posts
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VIB
Brazil3567 Posts
On May 26 2009 23:16 MasterReY wrote: Right now:when comes the next version of ur work? :D its cool + Show Spoiler + Changes: + Show Spoiler + - Terrain texture much higher resolution, cliffs should look better - Adjusted some of the ramps - Added starting locations - Geysers taller - Smoke is lighter in color and lower in height - Minerals are a bit more fat and random - Wireframe a little bit whiter If there isn't anything too bad about this one (other than gas smoke). I'll just rework the camera movement then start making the other maps. I found how to unprotect Kespa maps now, so I can take some really good pics of them. Unfortunately those high res pics takes too long for my computer to process. This last 20sec animation took me 8 hours to render. So I will only be able to do one map per day. On May 26 2009 17:23 Scorch wrote: Yes of course it is "possible somehow". All the map info is inside a replay. Just as it is inside a map file. It's just a matter of knowing what byte does what and extracting that info. I'm just saying I wanted a library that already does that, instead of having to write it myself.BWChart seems to be able to do that with its "Show Map" functionality, so it certainly is possible somehow. But anyway this isn't worth it. Because currently the time I need to make a new map (~15 minutes) is irrelevant compared to the time I have to wait for my computer to render the video (8 hours). So using time to write a script to reduce those 15 minutes wouldn't help too much. | ||
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GogoKodo
Canada1785 Posts
Great work. | ||
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MasterReY
Germany2708 Posts
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