Topic: Revamp Tee's
I would like to suggest some improvements to the look and feel of the tees.
In theatre you are taught to keep your body open. That is to always keep the front of your body facing as much to the audience as you can. When two people speak with one another on stage, they need to face each other and the audience. The way they accomplish this feat is to cheat out, halfway between profile and full front. This position, depending on which side the actor is standing, is called one-quarter left or right.
In video games especially sidescrollers such as teeworlds it is also true that the character should face one-quarter left, right or full front. This is not because we absolutely have to but because it is what the audience is used to and expects(whether they know it or not). It is natural for the characters on screen/stage to be some what facing the audience. If you take a look at other sidescrollers such as Mario, Sonic, Mega Man and others you will see that their characters are slightly turned toward the screen so that you can see more of the characters face and body even though if you were to try to walk like this it would look strange in real life.
Tees look as though they are actually turning their backs toward the audience. yet their eyes are looking as though they are turned one-quarter left or right. The first thing that could be done to make Tees look better is to move their front foot(below would be the right foot) back and the back foot forward. This will achieve the one-quarter look.
The next thing that would make Tees look better would be to turn their feet around and flip their skin when they look left. Currently when a Tee is looking left it looks as though their feet are pointing right and when they walk left it looks odd.
When I posted about this previously I suggested that when the Tee Looks at 91° or 270° the Tees feet would point right, and when the Tee looks 90° or 271° their feet would point left. But when I suggested this before I did not consider skins with asymmetric bodys. So now I suggest that the entire skin be flipped. This does however make the shadow look strange.
Now if you look at most fan art of Tees and even art that is posted of tees on the main website they have two arms. I suggest taking current arm from the skin and adding it to the top of the body. When the tee moves then the arm will swing back and forth like a pendulum. Something else that you could do to make this look even better would be to put the gun above the body when the Tee is looking left.
Bellow is what each gun would look like with this system.
When looking right from top to bottom the Tee would stack: Right Leg, Right Hand, Gun, Eyes, Body, Left Hand, Left Leg
When looking left from top to bottom the Tee would stack: Left Leg, Left Hand, Eyes, Body, Gun, Right Hand, Right Leg
I think that my guns in this example are a bit big compared to what is in the game it self. Keep in mind that the guns may be smaller when you actually play the game there for being less intrusive to the Tees face. Also I think maybe the eyes can be moved just slightly so that they are always seen.
Here is a video on how the feet could be modified.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdWekOWaWkQ
I know that this does not look the best (I do not have any good open source animation software so I used GIMP) but here is an animation for when a Tee is just standing around not moving.
Flags should also be placed in the Tees off hand.
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