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HistWar (international zone) => Communities => MODs => Discussion démarrée par: dandyking le 03 novembre 2010, 19:39:15 pm

Titre: More Sprits request...1:4?
Posté par: dandyking le 03 novembre 2010, 19:39:15 pm
Please forgive me if this has been discussed but is there anyway to change the ratio of men represented by a sprite? I would love to have 1:4 or 1:5 ratios.
Thanks All.
Titre: Re : More Sprits request...1:4?
Posté par: Hook le 04 novembre 2010, 00:10:10 am
It's been discussed a few times.  I wouldn't mind seeing 1:1 myself.  The problem with having more figures per man is that the sprites would have to be smaller in order to fit in the same area of ground.  The "footprint" that a unit occupies is properly to scale historically. 

There is also a problem with how many figures can be displayed and animated.  Even just doubling the number of figures would affect frame rates, and some computers wouldn't be able to handle it.  The game was designed to run on the lower end computers that wargamers have typically owned.

Hook
Titre: Re : Re : More Sprits request...1:4?
Posté par: dandyking le 04 novembre 2010, 14:22:24 pm
thanks for your response Hook.  I completely agree 1:1 would be amazing. do you know how difficult it would be to change the sprite ratio? Would a novice modder (with a computer that can handle  the additional sprites) be able to do it?
Titre: Re : More Sprits request...1:4?
Posté par: Hook le 05 novembre 2010, 00:37:08 am
If they were sprites, it might be possible.  I did it for Sid Meier's Gettysburg.  But they're 3D models, and most of the changes you'd need to make are locked away in the EXE file.  Sorry.

Hook