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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0004669Valley 1GUIJan 27, 2012 10:21 am
Reporterjerith Assigned Tokeith.lamothe  
Status resolvedResolutionopen 
Product Version0.520 
Summary0004669: Dragons scare description text away.
DescriptionIt looks like the Crippled Dragon image used in the descriptions (such as the region tooltip attached) isn't sufficiently cropped or something. Or maybe the text is just terrified of being set on fire and is cowering in the corner.
TagsNo tags attached.
Internal WeightPolish Tweak

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jerith

Oct 7, 2011 2:28 pm

reporter   ~0016092

Actually, there's a more general consistency issue with these images. For example, the Giant Amoeba is much bigger then the others, and the Skelebot Sniper is hard to see on the brown tooltip background.

Chris_McElligottPark

Oct 7, 2011 2:34 pm

administrator   ~0016094

A lot of this isn't really something we can easily do something about. The reason is that these images are NOT cropped -- they are having to be square powers of two to work on all graphics cards, so they are bottom-oriented into the smallest power of two square that can fit them.

That in turn leads to this, unless we keep track of how much we want to offset them upwards, which we might have to do at some point, but strikes me as a low-value activity at the moment.

jerith

Oct 7, 2011 2:40 pm

reporter   ~0016097

Ah, those pesky graphics cards. We should all go back to green text consoles! Eighty by twenty four! Viva La ANSI!

Yeah, this is probably not worth all that effort at the moment. It's one of those little polish things that make the finished product look that much more professional, but I'd prefer to have you guys working on game balance or more content or whatever for now. (Besides, that stuff's so much more interesting than messing about with image sizes.)

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Oct 7, 2011 2:20 pm jerith New Issue
Oct 7, 2011 2:20 pm jerith File Added: frightened_text.png
Oct 7, 2011 2:22 pm tigersfan Internal Weight => Polish Tweak
Oct 7, 2011 2:22 pm tigersfan Assigned To => keith.lamothe
Oct 7, 2011 2:22 pm tigersfan Status new => assigned
Oct 7, 2011 2:28 pm jerith Note Added: 0016092
Oct 7, 2011 2:34 pm Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0016094
Oct 7, 2011 2:40 pm jerith Note Added: 0016097
Jan 27, 2012 10:21 am tigersfan Status assigned => resolved
Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am Chris_McElligottPark Category Bug - UI => GUI