06-20-2012, 04:41 PM
Cool guys, I will add the last update from K__ and rafallus to git soon, or should I wait a bit? I guess I will check back in a couple days.
Ideally we will need source for every items, that is always best in case somebody wants to do updates and whatnot even after it is merged (we have mediasource on git for such things, it's always handy).
Btw it's probably good to have a couple people both working/sharing ideas like this. It's obvious everybody has different tastes and ideas about simpleitems which is complicated considering how many items Xonotic has... All this back-and-forth tweaking on a couple icons to try and please every person making a suggestion, not that it isn't productive, but it's probably a bit overwhelming for a single person doing all the tweaks. I can imagine K__ can't spend all his free time changing colors, modifying shape of icons or even starting from scratch over and over
Ideally it would be great to have a complete set even if not perfect just so the feature can be called "useable", it's even fine if some of them don't have a color yet. Of course the "core" items/weapons are more important, but having an overall view of what all items might look like in game I think will help and there will be plenty of time for tweaks until a new release. Right now it's still my ugly placeholders that are in master, plus missing a lot of items. Maybe it'll also catch other artists attention once a few servers allow simpleitems and could submit their own sets. Then we can bother a coder about coding support for multiple simpleitems sets, which would make it easy to switch/choose simpleitems to your taste
Ideally we will need source for every items, that is always best in case somebody wants to do updates and whatnot even after it is merged (we have mediasource on git for such things, it's always handy).
Btw it's probably good to have a couple people both working/sharing ideas like this. It's obvious everybody has different tastes and ideas about simpleitems which is complicated considering how many items Xonotic has... All this back-and-forth tweaking on a couple icons to try and please every person making a suggestion, not that it isn't productive, but it's probably a bit overwhelming for a single person doing all the tweaks. I can imagine K__ can't spend all his free time changing colors, modifying shape of icons or even starting from scratch over and over
Ideally it would be great to have a complete set even if not perfect just so the feature can be called "useable", it's even fine if some of them don't have a color yet. Of course the "core" items/weapons are more important, but having an overall view of what all items might look like in game I think will help and there will be plenty of time for tweaks until a new release. Right now it's still my ugly placeholders that are in master, plus missing a lot of items. Maybe it'll also catch other artists attention once a few servers allow simpleitems and could submit their own sets. Then we can bother a coder about coding support for multiple simpleitems sets, which would make it easy to switch/choose simpleitems to your taste