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I noticed no one appears to have a problem with the fact that you brutally eviscerate thousands of sapient beings with crude homemade traps.

its amazing how the general gaming community works aint it? drugs? those are horrible! slight nudity? not in my country! visceral violence? whats wrong with that, seems fine.

at any rate, already preordered it after playing the first one for less then 2 hours, the game is fun.

Quote from: Xantalos on July 18, 2012, 03:41:01 am

Does an arm count as small? Or a head?

If the blade of the spear is wide enough, yes, you could feasibly remove a limb if you thrust hard enough.

see, the answer is quite simple.

ever wonder why dwarves don't have shovels despite being a digging centric race? well they do, they just call them spears and like to stab things with them instead of dig with them.

Current work in progress, still in early stage and im aware of the issues with head/hand size on the left guy and the left thigh issue on the right guy.
end scene will be two guys hiding from bullet fire behind a brick wall.

anyone notice some problems I missed/have suggestions?
still just redoing sketches step by step so its easy to change things.

(derp, I need to add more detail to the gun barrel on the right, looks like a rolling pin)

im relatively certain nearly everything in this thread is planned.

Toady isnt doing this JUST for goblins, its setting up the framework to do the same thing with anything, a rather common trend in DF development that people still seem to miss completely on a regular basis.

Quote from: Karnewarrior on July 11, 2012, 07:39:21 pm

Meep at it.

Meep at it so adorably it gets diabetes and keels over.

This course of action is also suitable.

@newsmuffin/any anatomy drawing hopefuls: a few anatomical tips.
1) 'normal' (see: idealistic normal, not real life normal) people are 8 'heads' high, as in their head is 1/8 of their total height. however if you want a 'giant' character 9 is better, and you can use 6 or 7 to make short characters.

2) the wrist of an arm should reach roughly to the horizontal line crossing the center of the pelvis, can be measured by getting the rough distance of the two sections of the arm, accounting for any changes made by the rotation/perspective of it, and seeing if it is roughly the same. (no need for a calculator, accuracy within 20% will still look normal enough)

3) other then those two just keep in mind every little 'neat fact' you have heard about human anatomy (all those ones 5th-8th graders find so fascinating)

(you seem to have gotten it pretty good, just the arms in the first image looks a tiny bit odd, and the head is a little small for 'realism' in each of them. however as always, fuck realism, artistic liberties come first and foremost.)


EDIT:
@Newsmuffin: your idea was neat enough and easy enough that I decided to steal it for practice on my tablet.

even added a credit box so people finding it via other sources know its not my idea, hope you don't mind too much.

Other appears to be hurt, find mother.

failing that try to help other.

No, there really are no towns large enough to have those sorts of shops nearby.
I think I remember one from a previous character, if my guesstimation of where their maps overlapped is correct. But it's a good half-day's hike away. And I'm really not geared up enough to make a trip there and back as well as fight whatever zombie population is there.

the full step-by-step process to actually having fun in cataclysm.

1) just fucking go for it.