Goonhub
10-29-2019, 07:17 AM
Hi Urs,
Just revisiting this thread, as i'd like to get into the nitty gritty details about the map sprites.
What's "1 tile of the ship view" in terms of size? Tis a bit unclear.
I'm going a long winded way of describing this.. but if it's more of a marker than representative, then the map is going to start to look like the classic Super Mario world map (which is not a bad thing), with points of interest being clearly enlarged, the Player Character (In our case, the NSS Artemis) being huge in comparison to the surroundings. Not pictured is Mario, who's the size of a fucking castle when roaming:
![[Image: 1842959_1.jpg]](https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--uEUD3Evg--/t_Preview/b_rgb:4441eb,c_limit,f_jpg,h_630,q_90,w_630/v1503410617/production/designs/1842959_1.jpg)
So, this is what I might suggest, because while I can take some artistic liberty on the various backdrops above, I don't have that luxury when it comes to 32px sprites. These are purely suggestions...plucked from thin air, so feel free to shoot down or suggest alternatives..
1. NSS Artemis is 20px, give or take. This again is representative, you don't want to look at a map and go "Ok, but where are we?" If it does, then I'd bump up that sprite to be 32px. What you think?
2. In terms of how the NSS Artemis sprites looks like, I'm assuming your not using the pod in the video and want something that emulates the actual ship.
...what does the actual map of the ship look like, in a rough sense?
3. For points of interest, it'd be good to keep them at moons/stations/asteroids/other ships at 20px(give or take), 32px for planets, 40px for gas giants and 48px for Stars. That sound reasonable?
4. This is more of mumble than a suggestion, but I could potentially do a galaxy as a backdrop for the map, (dimensions..depends on the map size?) so it ends up looking a bit like the Mass Effect map, albeit with the proportions of above. The galaxy wouldn't be visible as a point to land (although, a destination to the heart may lead to a black hole) but might make the map a lot more prettier rather than just various objects laying around?
Just revisiting this thread, as i'd like to get into the nitty gritty details about the map sprites.
Quote:The map scaling is technically 1 pixel on the map ~ 1 tile on the ship view, if you care to make something seem proper to scale, but as I said, the map sprites are more a marker than a literal representation. being to scale would make most sprites on the map 16x16, which feels to small to get across a reasonable representation of the object.
What's "1 tile of the ship view" in terms of size? Tis a bit unclear.
I'm going a long winded way of describing this.. but if it's more of a marker than representative, then the map is going to start to look like the classic Super Mario world map (which is not a bad thing), with points of interest being clearly enlarged, the Player Character (In our case, the NSS Artemis) being huge in comparison to the surroundings. Not pictured is Mario, who's the size of a fucking castle when roaming:
So, this is what I might suggest, because while I can take some artistic liberty on the various backdrops above, I don't have that luxury when it comes to 32px sprites. These are purely suggestions...plucked from thin air, so feel free to shoot down or suggest alternatives..
1. NSS Artemis is 20px, give or take. This again is representative, you don't want to look at a map and go "Ok, but where are we?" If it does, then I'd bump up that sprite to be 32px. What you think?
2. In terms of how the NSS Artemis sprites looks like, I'm assuming your not using the pod in the video and want something that emulates the actual ship.
...what does the actual map of the ship look like, in a rough sense?
3. For points of interest, it'd be good to keep them at moons/stations/asteroids/other ships at 20px(give or take), 32px for planets, 40px for gas giants and 48px for Stars. That sound reasonable?
4. This is more of mumble than a suggestion, but I could potentially do a galaxy as a backdrop for the map, (dimensions..depends on the map size?) so it ends up looking a bit like the Mass Effect map, albeit with the proportions of above. The galaxy wouldn't be visible as a point to land (although, a destination to the heart may lead to a black hole) but might make the map a lot more prettier rather than just various objects laying around?