Posted by nokturn on July 22, 2007 at 6:28pm
A little question... is there an avatar system thought already?
Anyone considered one?
If there is one, where can I find information about it and get involved on it's development.
What else can I help with?
Comments
not that i am aware of.
not that i am aware of. please propose how you would like this done and we can discuss it and implement it afterwards.
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there is not an avatar system, and I don't really understand what you mean. however, if you mean user avatars, user modules does this already. If you mean avatars on a map, no, were finishing up mapapi right now.
I should have explained better...
I've been reading the ideas here for a wile... I didn't meant avatars like forum ones... I meant avatars like those of gaiaonline or Alienaa, avatars that you can "equip" things with...
My suggestion is to develop this concept along with the rpg one... In fact... I think that implementing an rpg in drupal with such avatar concept would increase the system (and the problems) a lot...
Obviously implementing this in a system that uses mostly nodes to define stuff can be hard...
But then again... I started using drupal a week ago... so I can really be unaware of the system's real capacities...
Sprites
My idea is to implement a sprite system -- in RPG, every object may be assigned one (or more) "sprites", or images. Sprites may be changed according to object states, such as direction it faces, whether it's wearing armor, if it's on fire, etc. Sprites will be their own 'resource', and each object may optionally have a sprite property which records the current image to display.
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that could work bery well...
that could work really well... that implemented is really easy to create several layers and then make clothes, armor, weapons lay over the basic sprite, creating the sort of dynamic avatar I was thinking about, better yet... I used to make beat 'em ups for pc on an open source engine, wich means I have tons of sprites laying around...
other thing... see this...
www.hive-creations.com/rpg
there is a rpg mod for phpBB forums I tried it an it's a pain to install, that's the sort of thing we don't want I think... but some of the concepts are a path we will have to run to develop something like this...
Is there a working group?
yes
here