Andor's Trail

Thystonius wrote:Well for whatever reason Krucha hasn't logged on anymore. But everybody reading this thread loved the snowy mountain background. Can Oskar try implement that one? I would love to see the finished painting by Kruncha's dad, that'd be so awesome, as a unique background

Thanks for resurrecting this thread... If not that snowy one (do we have rights?), then find another better then plain grey....

There's another person who made a pretty cool title screen he posted it in a new thread tho

Just a quick note on the size matter.
Why not use SVG ?
It's small (XML), it's vector graphics (no problems with resolution, almost no problem with portrait vs landscape vs strange screen ratio), and there's a pretty good rasterizer in pure Java that's FOSS (LGPL & BSD licenses, your choice) : SVG Salamander.
It's rather compact in terms of code too.

I used it in a sketch of a Java 2D game engine using OpenGL. The graphics were all SVG, with a given raster size fixed for a 1920x1080 screen size, and the soft rasterized the graphics in memory (can be cached too) at the correct size depending on user-selected game resolution/screen ratio. Worked like a charm.

I dunno if adding a lib + SVG file would be really more compact than a single large PNG, but if we add more "large-scale" graphics (after fights, for bosses, whatever), it could pay off.

just messing around before bed.

i want to work it a bit more, obviously...
but i figured i'd share before turning in.

That does look a lot better than the current screen.

rijackson741 wrote:That does look a lot better than the current screen.

I agree.

I just skimmed through the whole thread. I like the very early idea of a winding path (see page 1), but artistically it would be a lot of work, and far beyond my capabilities. It seems like there were some really good images posted by Kruncha, but they are all gone now, except for one small one (see page 5). Anyway, what nyktos is proposing is an improvement, and has the advantage of being actually realizable

nyktos wrote:[img]my%20AT%201.png[/img]

I like it! Just needs a little umph in the lettering. Its too plain. How's this lettering? Go ahead and grab it if you like Nyktos!

OK so different lettering? I'm on it!