[Kde-games-devel] Revived KJumpingCube

[Ian Wadham]

On Fri, 25 May 2007 01:17 pm, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Ian Wadham wrote:
> > It is not SVG, but I have added a pics/default.svg file for your
> > interest.  IMO cubes with rounded edges do not look decidedly
> > better than the ones with chamfered edges produced by QFrame,
> > when you reduce them to small scale.
>
> Hmm, I thought those dice looked pretty nice. (Also SVG would let you do
> things like add gradients or other textures to the dice.) One complaint
> I have with the 3.x version is that the graphics are pretty minimal;
> your svg was a decided improvement.
>
Thanks, Matthew, but have you looked at the SVG dice at the scale
at which they would be used in the game (ie. about 1.5-2.0cm)?  They
look fine at 5cm and up, but the curved 3D look of the edges virtually
disappears at small scale and the highlights in the pips are barely
visible.

Cheers, Ian W.