[crossfire] burned or charred objects (was: More server speed reducing the objects number)

[Brendan Lally]

On 10/17/05, Mitch Obrian <
     mikeeusaaa at yahoo.com
     > wrote:
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      We don't have the artists to create corpses for the
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      diffrent monsters.
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Could the existing monster graphics be (ab)used to appear corpse like?
I am thinking of something like rendering the image to a plane,
rotating backwards 45 degrees, then colourshifting towards grey. If
that produced usable results it may be possible to autogenerate all of
the corpse graphics.

>
      As we have it now it works fine, making monsters drop
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      corpses (when we don't have the artwork to support it)
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      would severly cheapen the game without adding any
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      capabilities.
     
I would concur on this point.