How would a feature be a creep to implement?
Sometimes I can tell, but others I can't. Sometimes I think I still
have another couple of opponents lying around somewhere on the other
side of the map, then suddenly...derp, guess I beat it already.
On 4/19/15, Jono Heaps <jono_heaps@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lol. Feature creep. My first thought was that it was someone who was a
creep
about wanting too many features and making Craig work too hard. Perhaps
it's
a feature that's a creep to implement.
About skipping the victory music, I can't say I've ever had that problem. I
usually know exactly which turn it is that I'm going to win the map, So I
can scroll through carefully on that particular turn to avoid skipping
anything. You should usually be able to tell when you're close to victory.
Jono
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Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: A couple of questions
"Feature creep"? What do you mean?
The only cutscenes I remember seeing are on defeat, but that was only when
you have one unit that if it dies then you have game over...
It makes sense to an extent, but I found it too easy to skip before I even
noticed. Like...if we could have a setting that gave us the option to skip
the music or not, or if the music could play but we'd still have the
"return
to main menu" and "return to map selection menu" buttons while it's going.
Or even have a certain key be pressed to skip, such as the space bar, so if
you hit other keys it still plays.
Sorry, I guess that's just me being nitpicky! *shrug*
On 4/19/15, Craig Brett <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I sense feature creep here... lol. I do want to do some of those otherselection"
ones, though. And in other ways, as they'd fit in with plans I've
completed recently.
I can do the step sounds not playing when you have a flying effect,
that's not too tough.
Cutscenes you can already do, I believe. I'm sure Allan used to have
Cutscenes in one of his map packs on map start, and I believe you can
do it on victory. Can't quite remember how it was done though. I think
it was leveraging something that was originally in for another game
that's in TB.
I get the skipping the victory music with keys, it makes sense to me.
Especially as some map packs have rather long victory music, so you'd
want to skip that. I can't think of a middle ground way right now, but
it is late.
On 19/04/2015 21:39, Monkey wrote:
It is, as far as I know. I meant to link the two, so that when you're
flying or levitating it won't play the sound, but once you're
grounded and moving the sound is played again.
Speaking of sounds, why is it that when you are either victorious or
defeated when playing you can skip the following music by pressing
any key? Half the time when I'm playing I keep going through the
motions to attack and end up missing the music, and only notice I've
finished when I get the "return to main menu" or "return to map
messages. And would it be possible in the future to have victory and
defeat sounds specified to individual maps as well? (I'd really like
to suggest cutscenes but I'm not sure we're at that point yet...)
On 4/19/15, Craig Brett <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How do you mean in regards to the not_effect_flying flag? I thought
that was just for tile effects, rather than for terrain step sounds
themselves. I can make it so that step sounds aren't played for
flying units, which might well make sense.
As for storyline, yeah, could be done. I think.
On 12/04/2015 13:59, Monkey wrote:
Hello,
Has anyone else been thinking about a "storyline" feature? So you
would have to play the maps in a certain order if the storyline
flag is enabled...
And...related to the step_sound= flag. Wouldn't it make sense to
make it compatible with the not_affect_flying flag? So that a
flying unit that is moving over snow, for example, doesn't sound
like it is walking through snow, since technically it's flying, or
levitating, or floating, or what have you.
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