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nooK
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| Quote: | | I completely disagree. Every person in this thread (besides yourself) has attempted to refute my idea of adding flavorful tooltips for skills with the notion that they want "clear-cut tooltips that perfectly explain what a skill does" (or something to that effect). Well, as you could see with the Tides of Blood screenshots I hosted (or couldn't see; I apologize, terrible resolution but that was the limit on photobucket), the format was pretty cut-and-dry. You could certainly make some variations, but in my opinion an overhaul on the tooltips would benefit Samurai Legends more than hinder it, and I have to say one of the things I hate most about DotA are the uninformative tooltips; knowing a spell's cooldown is great for advanced players, and, to bring up your point of user friendliness, having a list with details like these would simplify learning a new hero. |
I know ToB tooltips  The only (maybe) useful thing is the cooldown. Things like active, channeling or no point target are not needed at all, this is so fucking useless I use the ability once (if its a passive i cant even use..) and then I know. |
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Dancing_Peasant
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| Posted: 19.11.2006, 22:13 Post subject: |
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| What about before you pick the skill, or before you use/waste it? |
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nooK
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| Posted: 19.11.2006, 22:16 Post subject: |
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You get a basic idea what it does from reading the tooltip anyway.
Would like to see some descriptions nevertheless. |
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Dancing_Peasant
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| Posted: 20.11.2006, 05:11 Post subject: |
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Descriptions for...?
Pending that, I'd volunteer! |
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Lyncor
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| Posted: 20.11.2006, 11:48 Post subject: |
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I'm sorry to put it so bluntly, but your arguments about the Ronin don't make any sense.
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nooK
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| Posted: 20.11.2006, 14:40 Post subject: |
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| Descriptions for abilities. |
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Dancing_Peasant
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| Posted: 20.11.2006, 15:27 Post subject: |
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| Lyncor wrote: | | I'm sorry to put it so bluntly, but your arguments about the Ronin don't make any sense. |
Whose? You didn't just put it bluntly, you were quite vague and completely condescending as well -- way to go!
nooK, I'm curious about the effect your skinned trees have on the file size. Is the size reduction significant with the removal of the tree skins (note: not the trees, just the skins you've used for them)? |
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nooK
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| Posted: 20.11.2006, 15:41 Post subject: |
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| The tree model uses an ingame skin. |
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Dancing_Peasant
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| Posted: 20.11.2006, 18:04 Post subject: |
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Ah. Then, I must say, great choice. 
Quite a few of my friends were pretty sure they were skinned too!
Where lies the file size issue, then? The skinned units, buildings, and heroes? |
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nooK
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| Posted: 20.11.2006, 18:09 Post subject: |
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Yes all the units, buildings and heroes are custom models so they take up a lot of space.
They would take up much more space if some models wouldn`t use the same skins (buildings all use the same skin, archers and ashigaru too), and all effects use ingame skins. |
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Dancing_Peasant_Guest
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| Posted: 22.11.2006, 05:29 Post subject: |
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| Out of curiosity, do custom item icons and such distort the file size substantially? |
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nooK
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| Posted: 22.11.2006, 11:42 Post subject: |
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| Not really much, all the custom icons, are about 150kb. |
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Dancing_Peasant_Guest
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| Posted: 22.11.2006, 20:22 Post subject: |
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Isn't that somewhat hefty given that the file size is 2.5mb?
(Which would make each custom icon about 1/16th of the size or something...?)
The math could be off.  |
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nooK
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| Posted: 22.11.2006, 20:26 Post subject: |
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| All icons together are 150kb |
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