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(Message started by: lundt on 03/21/03 at 21:55:15)

Title: NightMist graphics
Post by lundt on 03/21/03 at 21:55:15

TEXT I think that you should put in a background for every place. for example, for woods put a woodlind background for Graveyard put a dark gloomy place with tumb stones. ;D i can help if you want. ;)

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by Creed on 03/21/03 at 22:01:08

Man, I think that would be hard for the staff, and laggy. IDK really. I don't know anything about programing. :-/ Text is fine with me.. Because you use your imagination as you play, that's what so cool bout MUD games.. But that's just me..

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by Tender_Foot on 03/21/03 at 22:05:44

theres no need for this, ive played a mud like that and the lag was rediculous, also for this to be an actual browser where you can click pictures and such, is preety rare in itself (i think ive only heard of about 20)

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by ICP on 03/22/03 at 10:26:50

I think if graphics were added it would rune NM i pref. would not play ne more i seen RoK and i hate it , i like nm with tex.

like an old saying *Dont fix it if it aint broken*

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by wonderful_nightmare on 03/22/03 at 12:39:23

hmm i like it the way it is but why would this increase lag? why not make the background a file you can dl and have your client load it when you enter some area? like for desert make a sand bg and you just have to load it once untill you leave desert.

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by Necros on 03/22/03 at 19:17:59

If nightmist had Graphics, i'd quit.

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by Despised on 03/22/03 at 19:30:22

Same here i think it would suck. NM is fine the way it has always been

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by Stotic on 03/23/03 at 18:18:15

Nightmist just wouldn't feel like Nightmist.

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by Deval on 03/23/03 at 23:34:05

on 03/22/03 at 12:39:23, wonderful_nightmare wrote:

Have you thought of the lag this would create when you are rocketing through the map, whilst your windows tries to load 2384796598276 pictures all at once?

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by wonderful_nightmare on 03/24/03 at 08:40:18

no dude my idea is that it just loads the pic once when you enter some area and then doesn't load again untill you enter an area with a new bg. couldn't jlh just put a flag on some squares where it sais load desert.bg and stuff? then it puts up that bg and doesn't load a new one till you reach a new flag?

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by Crusher2 on 03/24/03 at 18:08:01

I wonder if you would complain of lag if there was a code put in like /togglebackground. You are taking time to load your backgrounds, the enemy chasing you has theirs turned off. While you thought you were loading your desert background, suddenly you see Boar's Tusk background loaded.

It didn't take too long to load, you can live with the lag. But since your opponent has his backgrounds turned off, it would feel a lot more like you died with the lag.

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by Halor on 03/24/03 at 18:59:54

That would be fairly hard. We don't have any really good graphic artists at the moment. So making entire backgrounds for different areas would be very time consuming and hard. If we found a few artists that were good then this may be a good idea. But until then I doubt it will happen.

Title: Re: NightMist graphics
Post by wonderful_nightmare on 03/24/03 at 19:12:41

on 03/24/03 at 18:08:01, Crusher2 wrote:

if there would be such a command and you don't turn it on your just an idiot or if you didn't use it on purpose you got to deal with the chance you have a little more lag for a sec