I've always wanted to try one of these, but the technicalities are somewhat offputting/appealing. Did you use 3D models as a guide for construction or construct the tiles manually?
Using alpha transparency in places where you only need key transparency (such as the example you posted) is just wasteful of both storage and processing. Suggesting it should be used universally is just plain stupid.
But how do you address those layouts without an accompanying neighbourhood to tile mapping table? That's the idea behind laying out in neighbour-bitfield order: it's its own neighbourhood to tile mapping.
Those layouts look to be designed more for aesthetics (seam minimization, symmetry maximisation) than for programmatic simplicity.
The layout should be the same for any orthographic square-grid tiling.
Irregardless of KickStarter I think financial supporter's badges/medals, with various tiers, which show up on the user page and possibly a compact icon beside the user name on comments/forum posts could encourage some donations.
In regard to KickStarter I personally couldn't give a damn about personal rewards, I'd want to know what will be done to make OGA better and how it will benefit me (as an artist or as an art-seeker).
Oh, a couple more reuests that've long bugged me:
The medals on the user page are hexagonal, but they are laid out in a square grid. :|
The favourites on a submission page is just a dead number. It'd be nice if it was a link to a list of favouriting users.
shirish: Allegro 4 and 5 are complette different APIs. Its not a trivial job to port between them. The simple thing to do would be to install the Allegro 4 dev package as well, so you can build it as is.
Bart: An option to allow editing of past submissions without pushing them onto the Latest Art queue would be top of my list. As well as generally tidying up the theme's consistency and flexibility. Oh, and another thing, a precise time display for challenge finish times (eg. 24:00Z) and possibly a countdown timer.
In regards to crowd-funding for open-source projects. I've always liked the idea of an ongoing sequence of small feasible targets each building on the last with the result being released at each stage rather than one whopping great one. Not sure if something like that could work within KickStarter's infrastructure/rules.
Duion: Even if you pay for full ownership of a work or if the work released under CC0 or a similar Public Domain equivalent then depending on the jurisdiction the artist may still have full moral rights (such as the right of attribution of authorship), as moral rights cannot be waived in some jurisdictions. Though I certainly do agree that keeping track of all attributions within a large project could be a logistical nightmare.
This is one of the coolest things ever.
Love the clean, flat-shaded style.
I've always wanted to try one of these, but the technicalities are somewhat offputting/appealing. Did you use 3D models as a guide for construction or construct the tiles manually?
Using alpha transparency in places where you only need key transparency (such as the example you posted) is just wasteful of both storage and processing. Suggesting it should be used universally is just plain stupid.
But how do you address those layouts without an accompanying neighbourhood to tile mapping table? That's the idea behind laying out in neighbour-bitfield order: it's its own neighbourhood to tile mapping.
Those layouts look to be designed more for aesthetics (seam minimization, symmetry maximisation) than for programmatic simplicity.
The layout should be the same for any orthographic square-grid tiling.
Look at bg.png.
Irregardless of KickStarter I think financial supporter's badges/medals, with various tiers, which show up on the user page and possibly a compact icon beside the user name on comments/forum posts could encourage some donations.
In regard to KickStarter I personally couldn't give a damn about personal rewards, I'd want to know what will be done to make OGA better and how it will benefit me (as an artist or as an art-seeker).
Oh, a couple more reuests that've long bugged me:
shirish: Allegro 4 and 5 are complette different APIs. Its not a trivial job to port between them. The simple thing to do would be to install the Allegro 4 dev package as well, so you can build it as is.
Backgrounds (with Inkscape SVG source) and palettes I use in MyPaint.
mypaintkit.tar.gz
Bart: An option to allow editing of past submissions without pushing them onto the Latest Art queue would be top of my list. As well as generally tidying up the theme's consistency and flexibility. Oh, and another thing, a precise time display for challenge finish times (eg. 24:00Z) and possibly a countdown timer.
In regards to crowd-funding for open-source projects. I've always liked the idea of an ongoing sequence of small feasible targets each building on the last with the result being released at each stage rather than one whopping great one. Not sure if something like that could work within KickStarter's infrastructure/rules.
Duion: Even if you pay for full ownership of a work or if the work released under CC0 or a similar Public Domain equivalent then depending on the jurisdiction the artist may still have full moral rights (such as the right of attribution of authorship), as moral rights cannot be waived in some jurisdictions. Though I certainly do agree that keeping track of all attributions within a large project could be a logistical nightmare.
Blend
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That's would be Redshrike's submission here. Licensed under CC0 so no attribution actually necessary.
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