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Telekinetically Wielded Items Display Idea
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 11:12 am
by rexorcorum
(no gfx work required, only coding 
)
Don't know if this can be made to work, but here it goes:
The display will use the currently equipped item picture (as seen in inventory) floating above the player sprite in the following proportions (it needs testing):
- mindstars, gems and daggers: 30%
- one-handers: 50%
- two-handers: 100%
- It can have some small semitransparent aura around the hand-grip, but not necessary.
- It can swing or bump when attacking.
Upside:
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- No extra drawing and files, unique display for all TK wielded items;
Downside:
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- It will look really bad on the playerdoll display / inventory screen, mainly because the upscaling and lack of space.
- Possible workaround - no playerdoll display for telekinetically wielded stuff, only on game screen. I have no idea how hard is that to achieve, of course 
Anyone interested?
Re: Telekinetically Wielded Items Display Idea
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 12:51 am
by The Revanchist
I'm interested, but I have a suspicion I couldn't code
or draw... to save my life.
I suppose I'm just an emotional backer?
This would make it more obvious (and cool) when you have a telekinetic weapon equipped, which is a good idea.
Re: Telekinetically Wielded Items Display Idea
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 9:06 am
by Zireael
I guess you could make it work by giving items a line in their definitions that says telekinetic = yes and then code the paperdoll display like that:
Code: Select all
if not telekinetic <insert current code>
else end
And I'm all for the idea.
Re: Telekinetically Wielded Items Display Idea
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 9:41 am
by rexorcorum
Neat! And I'm glad that I'm not alone in this (as I feared
). I'll pester
DarkGod with it then.
Re: Telekinetically Wielded Items Display Idea
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 3:54 pm
by The Revanchist
rexorcorum wrote:Neat! And I'm glad that I'm not alone in this (as I feared
). I'll pester
DarkGod with it then.
Pester away! You have our support!
All two of us!
Re: Telekinetically Wielded Items Display Idea
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 4:27 pm
by rexorcorum
Well, to quote our Lord and Master Sub-creator -
"Three is a company" .
Re: Telekinetically Wielded Items Display Idea
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 3:45 pm
by Matanui3
You have my support as well.
Why let NPC mindslayers have all the floating weapon fun?
If gems are also to be shown, you might want a bit of an extra graphic around the gem, since they are pretty small.
Re: Telekinetically Wielded Items Display Idea
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:43 pm
by Doctornull
I really like this idea.
Did it ever happen?
Re: Telekinetically Wielded Items Display Idea
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:46 pm
by rexorcorum
Well, in our current timeline it hasn't
. Perhaps my
*powers of pester* are not that awesome after all...
Then again, when I have a bit more time, I'll probably start moving it by myself - with a little help (
read here: all the help I can squeeze) from my dear addon coder friends
.