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Jackard
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Re: Town Flags

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jorb wrote:Would love to do it. My only fear is that you'll be wanting those symbols on shields and armors and blazons and capes and god knows what else before I know it. If we all agree that this particular piece of losskastning (Dev team Swedish: Literally "throw-loosing", insanity, madness, craziness) is objectively speaking best kept to one singular flagpole object, then fine. ;)
the only thing this is good for is banners, everything besides capes is too small and the animating each symbol for the capes would be insane.

you should just stick to colors for clothing
loftar wrote:
Jackard wrote:you can do something a lot simpler than mix and match:

symbol
symbol color
background color
Oh please, heraldry is SRS BSNS! You can't just go around trivializing it like that. :)
yes you can. you totally can!
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Simplifying heraldry would make the interface easier to handle, but implementing full heraldry would require less art assets because you could have more unique combinations with the same number of assets.
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i dont understand why mix and match symbols would require less effort to implement than just plain symbols, but maybe??
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Re: Town Flags

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Well, the symbol, as I understand it from your post, is equivalent to charge in heraldry. The only difference between your suggestion and mine is that you propose a solid background colour and I want background to be divisible in multiple colours. This allows for a lot more unique combinations.
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