Slitherine

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Originally posted by Nick Papp: Hello to all, While everyone is enjoying the new game, I wondered if there are any comments on the new art, graphics, terrain and icons. Please post any thoughts here. Thanks! I love them, would like one more click on the zoom in feature tho! Nick Papp Director, Art & Graphics

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Originally posted by Mac: All the new stuff like the new buildings and such look really great but is it some limit on the part of the code or why haven't you added more trees and grass hexes and such? We could have, but...until you have tried to assemble a new terrain file set, you have know idea how much work is involved on just the art side! ;-) You'd have still been waiting for this game by Christmas!! [B]Of course you just might have been doing those fancy new units and such Well, if you want to retain the looks of the original series, works well. We added what we could, given the time avaialbe, and Mike Wood's programing schedule. There were MANY other things on the "wishlist", but Mike would have had to completely rebuild the graphics engine - which would have been a multi-month proposition in itself. [B]If you have time, please do some more of those. Great game even if you don't and thanks for all the new graphics. Well, I hope and plan for the former, not the latter. Keep checking in for any follow-on patches. Regards, Nick

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Originally posted by 3rd Recon: Hello, I was going to ask for a cemetary, but I found one in the editor under large buildings. It looks grest but I have a new idea. 1: make the cemetary on the orchard palet. just playing around, I put craters in the cemetary with the editor and I had a large fire burning. I did'nt seem realistic. Probably should not have been in the multi-hex kit to start with, but hated to pass this one up. The terrain benefits of the building set are there, but the program sees this as a "building", therefore the crates and burning images. It was a tradeoff, but, we'll see if there is a different way to do this. [B]2: can you darken dirt, it looks the same color as the sand stone or vis versa. Well...They actually draw from the same terrain tileset. We probably would have been better off to call both "dirt" but, too many other things to attend to. I can darken one, but you will see both darkened. I'll probably do a follow on for a real "Sandtone" set you can use. [B]the new terrain is really cool I spent two hours in the editor just fooling around to see all the things I could make. I like the tomb for asia. Just like the ones I saw when I was staioned in Okinawa. Thanks...a testamonial dear freinds!! 3:If given the chance, could you release a text file with a description of each building next to its picture. Not sure what some of these things are. thanks for the great work 3rd Recon