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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 9/17/2007 8:09:35 PM

jchastain

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Only a minor point, but I notice the stripe across the top ends at the last pixel of the numbers (while the orange circle extends another 4? pixels). I think it would look better to extend the red stripe down another 2 pixels so as to had it extend slightly beyond the numbers (and make the new stripe at the bottom extend 2 pixels beyond the numbers there as well).

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 9/17/2007 11:33:21 PM

Shannon V. OKeets

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Only a minor point, but I notice the stripe across the top ends at the last pixel of the numbers (while the orange circle extends another 4? pixels). I think it would look better to extend the red stripe down another 2 pixels so as to had it extend slightly beyond the numbers (and make the new stripe at the bottom extend 2 pixels beyond the numbers there as well).

Some of the naval unit graphics intrude quite high into the line of numbers. What I have now is already a compromise. Of lesser importance, it also matches how the lend lease stripe is drawn.

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 9/17/2007 11:54:11 PM

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I still need to clean up the dirty edges but otherwise it's looking good (graphics from Patrice).

Yeah looking good, but you do want to clip the corners on those Oil counters. We always do that to prevent them sticking to one another. There are only about 14400 corners to clip in a deluxe WiF set.

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 9/18/2007 1:16:08 AM

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I still need to clean up the dirty edges but otherwise it's looking good (graphics from Patrice).

Yeah looking good, but you do want to clip the corners on those Oil counters. We always do that to prevent them sticking to one another. There are only about 14400 corners to clip in a deluxe WiF set.

I have special nail clippers just for that task.

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 9/30/2007 1:48:51 AM

Shannon V. OKeets

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I still haven't fixed the dirty corners on some units, but I thought I would show you some of Patrice's recent work on Special unit types.

Besides the saved oil (shown previously) here are the Synthetic oil plants with revised graphics. This is taken from the scenario Decline and Fall (starts in 1944) and you can see some of Germany's nice air units. The captured Norwegian heavy cruiser is interesting. And so if the strong ASW escort.

Oh, and there are two newly constructed fortified hexsides south of Bremen.

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 9/30/2007 5:12:52 AM

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Part of the attraction and dedication to WiF for me has always been the artwork of the counters and map. Cwif severly dissapointed me in this aspect. I can't help but shout Hooray over how well MWif is looking! Beautiful!

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 10/1/2007 5:59:30 PM

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I couldn't agree more with Midtchdog. The looks of the counters here are great, and the faithfulness to the board game is greatly appreciated.

Could anyone post a screen shot of the US navy pieces? The BB North Carolina in particular? I'd like to use it for my forum Icon.

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 10/1/2007 8:16:48 PM

Shannon V. OKeets

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There are still naval units that need writeups and we are always looking for more volunteers.

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 10/1/2007 11:01:28 PM

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Strange, look at how the North Carolina name appears on my screen.
Don't look at the color, this is because I'm China when looking at the units.

Seems there is some font problem. The text is more to the bottom on mine, and both lines seems to be very close.
What is the font used by MWiF here ? Maybe I don't have this one ?

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 10/2/2007 12:00:56 AM

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That screen shot looks AMAZING. Much, better than CWiF which understandably uses greatly simplified graphics. Its going to be a very long 9 months waiting for this game to be released.

As long as we're posting US Navy Icons, any way I can get a screen shot of my favorite Battleship, the USS Iowa?

I want to use that as my icon!

Cheers.

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 10/2/2007 1:36:44 AM

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Strange, look at how the North Carolina name appears on my screen.
Don't look at the color, this is because I'm China when looking at the units.

Seems there is some font problem. The text is more to the bottom on mine, and both lines seems to be very close.
What is the font used by MWiF here ? Maybe I don't have this one ?

It is more likely a programming bug. The vertical offset for all the little pieces of each unit depiction are micro-managed. I have a whole file which exclusively contains horizontal and vertical offsets. Which one is used depends on unit type, length of name, and whether the unit is being shown 1/4 size or not (there are probably other considerations too). At times the program seems to use the wrong routines for drawing details of the units. These are small errors, like the one you noticed. If it weren't intermittant, I'd have fixed it by now. But their occurrence is not predictable (or at least not by me).

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 10/2/2007 1:41:50 AM

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That screen shot looks AMAZING. Much, better than CWiF which understandably uses greatly simplified graphics. Its going to be a very long 9 months waiting for this game to be released.

As long as we're posting US Navy Icons, any way I can get a screen shot of my favorite Battleship, the USS Iowa?

I want to use that as my icon!

Cheers.

Ok.

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RE: Bitmaps vs vectors - 10/2/2007 10:12:27 PM

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I just want to say after having been out of country for the last year that the game has progressed amazingly and these screen shots have me all rampued up and ready to buy.

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