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Originally posted by Aprosenf:
It might work on Windows. Windows doesn't have a 15 megabyte limit to files. It's probably true that QuickDraw wouldn't like PICTs larger than what you said, but that doesn't matter so much. EVNEW can handle rle8s and rleDs as large as you can hold in memory. Of course, just because it might be possible, that doesn't mean you should do it. Who's going to want to download 50 megabytes for an ultra-smoothly animated giant ship?

While you could probably have more large sprites in a windows file, I quite doubt that it would be able to be converted to Mac format without becoming corrupted. And while Mac rlë editors also allow resources as large as possible, even EVNEW converts the sprites from pictures. And IIRC, even JPEG and GIF have one short for the length and width headers...

But if you have an incredibly animated ship or several animated ships in a plugin, I would consider downloading it if it were done well enough. But just having smooth turning would definitely not be worth a download. Although, I guess it would fix the "wiggly ships" bug.

(quote)Originally posted by orcaloverbri9:
**Also, the Rogue Sqaudron games (or at least the first one) provide some insight. In the first one (never played II or III), the last level takes place six years after the battle of Endor, and Mon Calamari, which has ships that kick ass against the majority of Imperial ships, are under attack by world devastators (sp?), and Rogue Squadron has to save them...oh, and the commander is Wedge, not Luke.

Of course, if you don't trust books, you probably won't trust vieo games.

~ SpacePirate

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Originally posted by UE_Research & Development:
**Because military commanders who say, "Our Legions of Death have conquered every planet in the universe, we have a fleet strong enough to go up against itself and still emerge completely victorious, and...oh, yeah, we're the good guys too!" tend to make a story kind of dull:p.
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Also known as a good narrative and the hero myth. The hero myth is a storytelling device where your main character is a common person (Luke Skywalker is a farmer), who meets a mentor (Obiwan), who teaches him skills (the ways of the Jedi and the Force), they're assisted by sidekicks (Han, Chewbacca, Leia), overcome setbacks (Obiwan dies), and defeat the enemy (the Death Star is destroyed). In the bigger picture, Luke overcomes lots of setbacks (getting frozen on Hoth, rescuing Han, etc), and defeats the enemy (The emperor dies). It's harder to have a hero myth if the hero is already powerful, or famous, because the hero has to get beaten down and then recover (The Odyssey is one example). If the hero doesn't recover, then it's a tragedy (Macbeth).

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