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Hi everyone,

I would like to request the following set of graphics:

• A sleeping bag item icon (32x32 pixels)
• An animation that indicates that a player character is sleeping (e.g., a `Zzzzz' thing)
• A spritesheet (or two spritesheets, male/female, if needed) for a blindfold, covering the players' eyes. This should emphasize the fact that their eyes are covered (and probably closed) and not try to look too much like a realistic medieval-fantasy blindfold.
• A status icon (or animation) for `tired' (~20 pixels high, not too wide)
• A status icon (or animation) for `very tired' (~20 pixels high, not too wide)

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Changed the `closed eyes spritesheet' request to a `blindfold' request.

-- fate

SpamMaster,

(2) is intended for a particle effect, so drawing particles is fine-- as long as we can construct an interesting-looking particle effect from them.
(3) I don't know whether the current client can pull off a lying down effect with a non-dead player. If that's possible, it would be ideal. Perhaps you might want to lay off the blindfold for now while we investigate your idea (and thanks for suggesting it-- the reason for why we didn't investigate that option was probably that we didn't think it would be possible.)

The status icons/animations should be about 20 pixels high (or slightly less). Any width is fine in theory, but narrower is better.

Thanks in advance!

-- fate

Note that no currently released client supports sleeping frames. So we'll have to use sitting for now. As for the blindfold, a sleeping mask so the player's eyes aren't shown open.

Jaxad,

setting the sitting flag to `dead' should make the client display the player as lying on the ground. If we remove the headgear and replace the armour with a sleeping bag sprite, it might look close enough to someone being asleep.

-- fate

If the client is told the player is dead, it'll show the respawn dialog.

Jaxad,

there is far too much hard-coded behaviour in the client. Okay, SpamMaster, in that case, sitting blindfolded is the only solution (you only need to provide blindfolds for the sitting frames.)

-- fate

SpamMaster wrote:Okay... wouldn't it be possible just to add a Sleeping frame to the player sprite image and tell it to use that when you're asleep?

No. All possible animations are currently hard-coded into the client. To have a sleeping animation, it'd need to be added to the next client version and couldn't be used until all support for all prior client versions is ended.

Hi,

Se this also:
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8433

Regards,

if we add sleeping frames on the playerset. we also have to update the equipments. not a very good idea for me.

Hi,

This is an idea which is feasible client-side with a little workaround for newer clients.
Older clients couldn't see it, though...

Regards,

SpamMaster wrote:No, the idea is to make the Sleeping Bag equipped when this happens. All other items would be unequipped.

oh I see. maybe add some pajama or something...

yuminig wrote:

SpamMaster wrote:No, the idea is to make the Sleeping Bag equipped when this happens. All other items would be unequipped.

oh I see. maybe add some pajama or something...

Not if the sleeping bag covers the whole body.