[Kde-games-devel] Revived KJumpingCube

[Matthew Woehlke]

Ian Wadham wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2007 01:17 pm, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> 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.

Holding my handy ruler up to the screen, looking at them as they appear 
in Firefox when I first looked, they seem to be about 14mm in size, 
which I originally judged to be /smaller/ than I am likely to see them. 
(I have a strange habit of running KJumpingCube maximized, although it 
would be nice - maybe it already does? - if it would keep the play area 
square.)

Of course I'm also running 1600x1200 resolution, but no need to forsake 
those of us that /will/ get extra quality out of your nice SVG dice :-).

Oh! Ok, I see what you mean now, in Inkscape they look a bit different, 
it looks like they need some tweaking but there is certainly still a lot 
of good potential. :-) Don't despair!

-- 
Mathew
(sorry, .sig file is on the other computer)