Shifting Ages: Cave tiles, chat system, various things
 

Well, I promised last week I would show the chat stuff, and maybe some cave tiles. I decided to do so, so here they are. Give me some feedback on the cave tiles and the various other things.

Some details on the effects of some NPCs - the level notification has a very nice entrance, coming from the sides, and does not just appear in the center. It moves rather nicely and looks great coming in.

The chat system has a feature that "dodge" other bubbles, basicly the push each other away in order not to overlap. On the occasion that they do overlap, they will be drawn on different layers, so they do not merge.
*Big thanks to Kaimetsu for alot of help on this one.

Well, go ahead and look at the screenshot. Last week I promised to show this screenshot...but this time I will make no promise for next week. Sorry.

Re: Shifting Ages: Cave tiles, chat system, various things
 

Nice chat system but I must say the walls looks like nice texture slaped accross a sideways polygon please add a little more depth to it.

Can you post a screen shot of the guy saying something longer than hello.
It looks as though it could take up a lot of space on screen, especially when lots of players are talking.
Ever thought about making the background transparent?

I can see it now...A spammer deicides to block the whole level by say llllllllllllllll 1000 times and I dont like how the rock is

Another reason I made that chat system - the max allowed width of it is 200 pixels, max allowed height is 5 lines, so it is not possible to spam.

It looks like the rocks have a world of there own (there too bright). The cave walls look to flat, which you can see clearly when they turn diagonally. Compared to whith everything else I see in there, the walls look too un-detailed. It also looks like the tree trunk is talking instead of the guy (if that is even a tree trunk, and if it is, whats it doing inside a cave?).

i want to play.
NOW

Hey that's pretty nice. :)
A few parts need some fixing though cause they look too squarish.

The guy's face looks deformed :(
And, why is a modern looking guy standing in a cave?
By a talking tree trunk?

i think it looks VERY nice...
but i think the text is a little too big...will there be a way to change the size of it?

Hmm now that you mention it, because everything is drawn clientside, I can integrate that. I will be sure to add a "Options" section to adjust various things like that =)

3/10.

The walls are ugly, look like black corn, on eachother.
The diagonal walls looks like wallpaper.

The floor looks like melting brown lava.

**** > Character
poop > gui

END.

I like it, except for the fact that the ground kinda looks like a floor of melting hershey's kisses. :D

Shifting Ages is a dumb name, go back to Murasamune ^_^

I don't know. I truly don't know how to fix those tiles. I was hoping for more things on the color, and contrast, maybe more shading. But the tiles themselves...I would need to redo them all together, and I really don't see that as needed. Can you guys be more specific on the problems?

As for the guys face...there is just no satifying anyone these days. I am scared to change it, because some people seem to like it. I really am not sure if some people have a grudge and are trying to make me feel bad, or some are actually serious.


*blinks* amazing. Someone who liked the name Murasamune. Well, thing is, that is my old project. This is a new one heh.

Ithink it should be called Age of the big Shift.. or mix em Age and Shift

and get.. Shaft! *retro music plays*

better yet, why is there a tree trunk in a cave? :confused:

why does the guy look like fat bastard?

his face is so freaking fat and deformed

maybe you should hire someone to do characters because yours havent improved at all.

and that chat box is hideous, id expect much better from you
your other gfx arent that nice but thats horrible.

also those sdxz at the bottom are way too huge, takes up so much room on the screen makes me sick.

eh, just don't change it to End of Ages
;)

*note* my server was started 2 months before SoulBlade started on SA, so the name was not copied
;)

Sheese, don't even wanna say "Hey nice shoes" ?

Im a very blunt person.

LOL

hey I like em, I think its great that people are trying to be different.

-_- Can you PLEASE stop mentioning your server!!! You have shown nothing, and we know nothing of it, so quit talking about it, acting like it is the greatest thing in the world! Make a new thread if you wish to talk about it.

Oh and about warcraptain, I have learned everything that comes out of his mouth, as the name implies, is crap. So don't worry about him ;).

oh you got me soul-blade

because im so full of crap i cant even talk without chunks of it coming out.

dude you are a *****
your gfx look like crap, so damn dark, and you cant tile worth ****.

not to mention your sprites look like a used tampon

Yup, and you are so much more skilled. I can see the numbers simply booming on enigma!

I always see WC ranting on other servers instead of working on his own. Heck, he rants more than me! That's an accomplishment. o.o

umm... huh?
0.o'
i wasn't acting like it's the greatest thing in the world... i was just saying that we didn't copy our name from yours... since your server is getting more publisity, when i DO make a thread about my server, then people will be like "OMG, you stole your name from Shifting Ages" :rolleyes:

I'll make a new thread eventiually, but i don't want to show stuff :\ i mean, i will when we are ready. I don't see why you'd have to yell like that, when all i was doing is pointing out that we picked our server name before you even anounced your server, so we couldn't have copied it... (it was just an issue i thought i would address before anyone had a chance to say it)

ETD, you see I told you lately you been mentioning your playerworld too much in other people's threads.

I can make characters too, but you dont see me making a fuss about it.

Hey, Nice shoes.

Superb..I agree with Fal on the shoes.

They're bowling shoes.

Deek, make a server with those awesome bodies. It would blow any other server out of the water. :)

Umm
Lets state it like this:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
that body is hillarius... the face.. the hands and the body ROFL!!!

You do understand he was being sarcastic, right?

Yeah, the body was humorus :)

You're not a very modest person. You're not a very constructive person either. I don't see how "not to mention your sprites look like a used tampon" is being constructive in the least bit.

You're just blatantly harassing him and insulting his work, then talking about your server in HIS thread. So what is that, two forum rules broken? You're going off topic and you're insulting someone. I think this is the lowest you have gone as of yet.

Yeah and I also see Warcaptain on every other server but his own. Either going there to talk about his server, or to steal ideas from other servers.

Wow Deek that was like, like, like, the best graphic i ever seen!

My little sister can do better >.> Can she?

Yeah, i know he was sarcastic.. still the body is the best body i seen in graal. :p

Well... err. I do like the graphics, but as everyone else has stated, they look flat.

Walls- Look like a skin slapped on some sort of polygon, just turned diagonal. Try adding depth to it to make it look like rocks are coming out of it, and at the edge of where the wall meets the floor add some curves and rocks.

Warcaptain- I don't beleive you are one to go around critisizing other poeples work, wait not critisizing... more of disrespecting the artists. You yourself are not an artists, you rely on other peoples work to get you through. I mean, Please... I don't care for the graphics in this situation, but I didn't go out and say "Well, your graphics are crap. Thanks." I beleive you have seen Soul Blades forest and town graphics? Amazing. All artists have a weak point, and Sould Blades just may be Body sprites and caves. I sure know I wouldn't enjoy making caves, the depth and proportion would be a pain in the ass. Anyway, just try and keep your "blunt" comments to yourself. As my mother says "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all."

No this is best best body you have seen in Graal ;). It's tall for a reason so the head is equal to the body...