Unit shadow

[SJuliez]

This adds a programmatic drop shadow to icons when not airborne. This is meant to replace the static shadow we have around many icons. The drop shadow reflects a unit's height and is oriented like the terrain shadows.

[HammerGS]

Should I be planning to switch the sprites back to the original unshaded versions?

[SJuliez]

ground units yes.

[HammerGS]

Another thought on this, I know in the past I've seen comments that players don't like shadow effects. With the move back to original sprites, should this be made an option? Defaulted to on.

[SJuliez]

Yes I can add that. I could make the unit shadows depend on the terrain shadow setting to avoid yet another checkbox

[HammerGS]

Yes I can add that. I could make the unit shadows depend on the terrain shadow setting to avoid yet another checkbox

I think that would be a great idea, but I would set the option to on by default.

[NickAragua]

Looks fine. Do we want to have this as an option for people using potato computers? Some of the computations in EntityImage look a little gnarly and may be not great for performance?

edit: lol looks like Hammer had a similar idea.

[SJuliez]

Yes, it's now tied to the terrain shadows. Actually, the icons are cached and during a game (after the lobby) I found it difficult to get them to do the EntityImage thing at all. But in the lobby, they constantly redraw so I guess, better that way.

[Thom293]

Hey - I just used this for the first time. Looks really damn good. Thank you.