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Shoddy Battle 2 screenshots (client preview)
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I think that you guys should make the HP into a percentage and number. I think that would be so much easier to understand... but differentiate them some how. I don't want to see that 47 HP is lost on my screen and that 23% HP is lost and confuse the two numbers... (People like me tend to do that.)
Agreed, same for me.
Amazing interface guys. I can't wait to try out doubles battles with this thing. I wonder what CAP double battles would be like O_O
I don't think he was specifically referring to any of the screenshots =/
I think it looks great. Great job and can't wait for it!
Well, with the double battles, the sprite placement is difficult and messy, even the stuff in my picture is misplaced slightly (Electivires "box" should actually touch the top of the battle window, however, this appeared awkward as his foot was off the arena as well as some other things) and Alakazam is aligned to the far right of his space for aesthetic reasons
I believe it's called a clusterfuck.
Excellent job. I like how the Pokémon and moves stand out now.
I think the order of sprites' depth in doubles (from back to front and in the Electivire-Alakazam-Rampardos-Togekiss screenshot) would be Electivire, Alakazam, Togekiss, Rampardos.
Also, if the height of the health bar would have to be reduced if a name were added, I actually wouldn't see a problem with this.
Also, if the height of the health bar would have to be reduced if a name were added, I actually wouldn't see a problem with this.
How do you intend to fit 3/4/5/6 health bars in? Would you just make them thinner/shorter (possibly making the numbers so small as to be hard to read), or have a larger battle window for >2v>2 battles?
That looks great for doubles, though (I am pretty sure) you can't toggle to see the opponents exact HP which seems to be possible with that setup.
That looks great for doubles, though (I am pretty sure) you can't toggle to see the opponents exact HP which seems to be possible with that setup.
Why does Alakazam have 48 max HP?
And while the whole screen looks nice, there are some things I'm really not liking:
1 - Moves being bolded, it makes harder to read. But I believe this can be edited by ourselves, right?
2 - Being able to know the opponent's max HP. Looking at that battle log, I know Rampardos has 252 EVs in HP; probably other 252 in Attack and the remaining 6 in Speed. We shouldn't be able to get so many information of the opponent's pokémon like that. It would be better to just see the opponent's HP as percentages.
3 - The background. It looks cool and all, but we should have Link Battle as the only background possible. Unless you say Secret and Nature Power won't be affected (that is, the backgrounds will be purely an aesthetic feature), then it should be changed back to Shoddy 1's.
And while the whole screen looks nice, there are some things I'm really not liking:
1 - Moves being bolded, it makes harder to read. But I believe this can be edited by ourselves, right?
2 - Being able to know the opponent's max HP. Looking at that battle log, I know Rampardos has 252 EVs in HP; probably other 252 in Attack and the remaining 6 in Speed. We shouldn't be able to get so many information of the opponent's pokémon like that. It would be better to just see the opponent's HP as percentages.
3 - The background. It looks cool and all, but we should have Link Battle as the only background possible. Unless you say Secret and Nature Power won't be affected (that is, the backgrounds will be purely an aesthetic feature), then it should be changed back to Shoddy 1's.
That isn't really its Max HP. In the DS, the HP bar is 48 pixels long, so that is saying that alakazam has x out of 48 pixels full, so you get a rough estimate of how much HP it has
Here is a screenshot that I took with Windows 7. Nothing too shocking.
I'm not sure how stacking the health bars vertically helps with anything. The only way you could think of it is right bar for right pokemon and left bar for left pokemon, which is correct. I tried it out like that but it just looked poor and didn't magically add any clarity.
I'm not sure how stacking the health bars vertically helps with anything. The only way you could think of it is right bar for right pokemon and left bar for left pokemon, which is correct. I tried it out like that but it just looked poor and didn't magically add any clarity.
That looks amazing, good job guys.
The screenshots look very promising. Thanks for posting this whet everyone's appetites, and thanks for the work you are doing to make Shoddy 2 a reality.
**mind is blown**
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