(05-03-2012 02:17 PM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: I love the addition of photos.
With the addition of the Cattery, it will often be the only visual guide to the cats one owns.
As a result, I make a couple of suggestions:
- The pictures shown for Special Collection Cats are what they would appear like if they were normal starters, without the paint jobs. It would be more accurate, especially in light of the Cattery, if the paint-job coat where shown, instead.
- The eyes are fixed, by coat.
- Optional additions, such as hats, collar, etc, do not appear.
It is technologically possible to bake the correct eye color, and add optional features such as collars, 'on-the-fly'. This could mean a significant increase in computational overhead, but, given the extremely low cost of added computer power at most hosting sites, that should not be a problem. There might also be a slight increase in network traffic, also; but, given the way most caching schemes work (or fail to 
), that probably is not as large a consideration as the computational overhead. I suggest 'on-the-fly baking' as something to consider given that I expect we'll see a large movement from in-world to in-Cattery.
While minor features such as pupil size, eyelid shape, and ears show, errors in them are not nearly so pronounced as the coat, eye color, hats and collars. It might be nice, when baking on-the-fly, to correct those, but it may make the operation too complex and the costs may not be worth the gain. For now, I'd put them on the list to think about during design, but suggest implementation wait until we see if such minor changes in appearance have enough real demand to warrant the additional expenses.
I'm not sure what you're seeing, but other than the hats and collars, my cats look the same as they should (short of the shade and tails), with correct eye color, eye shape, pupil size and ear shape. The costumed ones show their costumes, including both specials and things like mardi gras kittens It's been this way since I first saw it last night when it went live.
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