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Dingo
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posted July 03, 2003 02:43 AM |
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Animated Avatars/Character Icons
In H5 it would be cool if a heroes avatar was animated. Like for example Solymr in H5; it would show is face and fingers, out of his fingers would come lighting. The lighting would just be jumping from finger to finger.
Do you guys understand what im saying?
The animations wouldn't have to be too big but little things like I mentioned earlier.
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LordTitan
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posted July 03, 2003 03:00 PM |
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Sorry to rain on your pariad, but those gifs would make H5 even bigger as it is, and besides, in H4 they couldn't even make animated shorts for the campaigns.
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Dingo
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posted July 03, 2003 08:01 PM |
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Yeah but I don't care how big the files are. I need to waste my 200GB hard drive. My biggest game is 3.3GBs and i beat that in about 2 days. I wouldn't mind a 8GB game...
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LordTitan
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posted July 03, 2003 08:18 PM |
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Well... I suppose if your computer was real good, and had a lot a' free space it'd be nice to have animated gifs.
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posted July 03, 2003 08:23 PM |
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Gifs? Computer games don't use gifs, they have other methods to create animation which take less space. Believe me, you wouldn't notice the size change. Besides, they could make the portraits 3D like in Warcraft 3.
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LordTitan
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posted July 03, 2003 08:27 PM |
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WarCraft 3 is done terribly.
But it would be nice to see a bit of humor in the game.
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Svetac
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posted July 03, 2003 08:37 PM |
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Well the idea is neat. Although I don't think they'll have the resources needed to do this.
But, I would be really glad if they bring back the bigger size of portraits as in H2, with different backgrounds on them (like the castle behind Sir Gallant in the H2 portrait, or mountains behind some Wizard fellow, etc.).
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Lith-Maethor
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posted July 03, 2003 08:42 PM |
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umm...
if there actually is a HoMM5, and they decide to use animated portraits, they will probably use another format and not gif... of course, space will not be much of a problem... if they get wise and switch to Ogg Vorbis...
EDIT: oops! ...and why is WC3 done terribly?
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Angelspit
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posted July 03, 2003 10:03 PM |
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Instead of animating the heroes' mug shot, they should spend more time making more detailed character animations. An animated mug shot would become annoying after 5 minutes.
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Aquaman333
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posted July 10, 2003 03:25 AM |
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Not true, Lord Titan. Warcraft III handled it very well. The 3D animation gave a certain flavor to the game. You could even activate a short speech when you clicked on the different heroes. Mages would say one thing, Barbs would say another. voice actors for computer games aren't that hard to get, and you would only need a few. In Warcraft III, a person might have done the voices for five or more units.
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Dingo
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posted August 21, 2003 12:01 AM |
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I think Voices would be too much. They would get annoying after a while.
Animations would be cool tho.
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Gerdash
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posted August 22, 2003 12:52 PM |
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the homm2 hero portrait background might have been an early form of biography. if there was more symbolism involved, they could be even better maybe? unfortunately, competent people are needed to use symbolism correctly.
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Draco
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posted August 22, 2003 05:21 PM |
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honestly i dont think it would be that hard to make animated portraits, i mean if they could do it in 1996 for Starcraft i think they can do it in 2004 for heroes 5.
starcraft was i think only like 400 megs, althought there wasnt much in the name of details, but still. im sure they can handleit nowadays.
maybe they can start making games on DVD format. instead of CD and then there would be no problem with space.
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this_other_guy
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posted August 24, 2003 11:11 AM |
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Then most people is gonna need to upgrade their computer to DVD drive before they can play the game. :0 Anyway i don't think a little animaton is gonna skyrocket the size of the game, so this idea should work out fine.
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Aquaman333
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posted August 25, 2003 03:17 AM |
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I'd really like activtion speeches though. They were hilarious.
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Draco
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posted August 25, 2003 03:51 PM |
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or they could add in the exploding sheep  that would be nice too
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UncleJR
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posted August 25, 2003 07:59 PM |
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Animations
Come on. If they can come up with a pit lord scratching his ass, certainly they can animate the avitars! lol
And H3 already does it to some extent. When the heroe's army does something cool, they raise their hand up in victory, and when they're getting their bootie kicked, they hang their head in disbelief.
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posted August 25, 2003 08:21 PM |
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if they could do it in 1996 for Starcraft
Starcraft was released in 1997.
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Draco
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posted September 04, 2003 07:05 PM |
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Quote:
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if they could do it in 1996 for Starcraft
Starcraft was released in 1997.
really? i coulda swore it was 96/97(for broodwar)
oh well
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Dingo
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posted November 09, 2003 10:29 PM |
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Over 5,000 views and only 18 replies?
I'm reviving this.
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