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LordSeth wrote:If any gm has a link to the (witch) skin please share it with me through pm. If it already has walking animations correct me if I'm wrong but all it will need is the attacking and dying animations then it can be applied to the server as a new skin and IG enemy witch will cover two often requests 1 a female mage skin can be added to the registering screen and 2 it can be set as a low enemy and can be collared and applied for a higher level enemy and being that the skin is already in the game it shouldn't take up much more space on the server. Just a thought.

MadMikael wrote:

madmaniacal1 wrote:I just had a thought, but someone more experienced than me (Comp) will have to check. If a skin is modified, and then a second filter is added, or even a third, would they render? If so, we can remove the extra animations (such as war dog and brown wolf) and replace with a filtered version, and reduce the size of the app as a result. Since only comp can (legitimately) compile an app to test, perhaps he can answer this.

I'm not entirely sure what you're saying here... it sounds just like what was mentioned above.
Some skins already do work like this - the skin has a base skin, then the filter is added to change colours.
This is applied to (almost) all player skins, and several monster skins (but not all are done yet - that's what we're talking about).
But you're mentioning animations... so I'm confused....
The way the game is set up, you can't reduce the animations for a single skin.. but you can duplicate it and recolour it using the colour matrix.

For any interested in seeing which have been done (and which have not), the file you're looking for is in the map editor (not sure if it's available on forum).
The file is entities.list (simple text file), and it's found in the assets folder.

When looking at a skin, it can be "unique", or, it can refer to another skin, with a "matrix" option (followed by a bunch of numbers).
The idea to reduce app size discussed here is to take the similar ones that are not done this way, and recolour the primary one via colour matrix to achieve a result that is (almost) exactly the same as the existing unique skin.

I only went into detail because, if someone who's not sure about this wants to do it, they can.

madmaniacal1 wrote: My post was referring to the ones that were done BEFORE the matrix setup was applied, such as brown wolf and war dog. My question is this: can a matrix be applied in layers? If skin A is a matrix changed version of skin B, can a second filter be applied that uses the changed skin A as a base? If it DOES work, older sets such as brown wolf could be removed (reducing game size) while not losing any skins.

madmaniacal1 wrote:What I'm referring to is that some skins have been made from war dog, or brown wolf, which are variations of the original white wolf. If the brown wolf was replaced by a matrix derived from the white wolf, instead of its full animation set that already exists, would skins based off of the brown wolf still render?

Edit: now that I think of it, I likely should have led off with a simpler description of my idea. Lol

LordSeth wrote:If any gm has a link to the (witch) skin please share it ....

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