Ever wonder what's under Oshi's armor?...

[akicks]

wow. I don't want to know how much work you guys put into this, but I thank you all.

[bobturke]

Simply amazing!!!!!!! Great work BM. Can't wait for the other races!

[memiki]

That is wonderful
You guys do such great work

such hard work and I am sure lots of dp involved in it

Thank you for the great work.

[targosz]

*Ciri shows the greatest respect looking at BM hard work*
*hugh*
Must tell that u r on the best way to became the legend in Ryzom world....

[caitiff]

The problem with precaching images is that there's over 1600 individual images:

17 armor pieces * 8 colors * 3 grades * 2 genders * 2 views = 1632 images

so precaching isn't feasible at all.

Precaching is not really feasible though you could take another approach at it once all done. Allow a link to download all the image links into a file on their computer. Then have a text box where they could enter the location of the folder which you would use to have the scripting locate the images off of the computer itself. This would be a tad extra work, but would allow this to be accomplished.

Also, EXCELLENT job on this one. You surely have gone above and beyond. Good job

[blaah]

Precaching is not really feasible though you could take another approach at it once all done.

actually it's 1536 images (or did i miss something?)
all those pics are total 7MB of data (pics are 1k to 10k in size)

/target oshido
/bow

edit: i forgot caster pants on light armor

[aylwyne]

actually it's 1536 images (or did i miss something?)
all those pics are total 7MB of data (pics are 1k to 10k in size)

/target oshido
/bow

I think maybe you're only counting 16 pieces of armor but there's 17 (6 light, 5 medium, 6 heavy)

Anyway, yes, it's the sheer number and size of the set of files that keeps me from pursuing some way to locate all of the files on the client. If I allowed the easy download of that size of data, we'd shoot so far past our monthly bandwidth and that'd cost me

[micrix]

I think maybe you're only counting 16 pieces of armor but there's 17 (6 light, 5 medium, 6 heavy)

Anyway, yes, it's the sheer number and size of the set of files that keeps me from pursuing some way to locate all of the files on the client. If I allowed the easy download of that size of data, we'd shoot so far past our monthly bandwidth and that'd cost me

Would you tell us how you managed to keep the Trykerlady always in the same position ? I guess stun wasnt the way it worked

BTW: once you have the pics in th browsercache it works fast and fine.

[blaah]

I think maybe you're only counting 16 pieces of armor but there's 17 (6 light, 5 medium, 6 heavy)

ty, i knew i forgot something light has 2 set of pants.

[aylwyne]

Would you tell us how you managed to keep the Trykerlady always in the same position ? I guess stun wasnt the way it worked

There's really no secret to it other than patience. I would do one type of armor (heavy/medium/light) at a time. I'd put all of the armor in my apartment, get the avatar in the right place, then swap each of the 24 suits and take a screenshot. The avatars do move about a bit but they always return back to the default position with their hands at their side. I also found that equiping and unequiping a sword will usually cause them to go back to this position if they spend too long with their hands on their hips or something.

From one session to the next, I just line the avatar up as best I can based on the floor tiles and the door in the background. If you go to the following page and switch between heavy/medium/light, you'll see the background shifts slightly. Thats me not getting lined up perfectly from one session to the next. But the background isn't that important. The main thing is that the avatar be in the same place relative to the camera and that's pretty easy to control.

Edit: here's the link I forgot to paste the first time:

http://www.ballisticmystix.com/armorDisplay.jsp?color=beige&race=tryker&gender=male&type=light&grade=basic