Is Habbo removing the zoom-out feature?

[Sandoo]

Habbo.fi had a new method of zooming out implemented today. Instead of there being a large sprite and a small sprite, zooming out will now just resize the large sprite. This looks really unprofessional and makes Habbo look like ****.



@Macklebee what's the deal?

[MKR&*42]

Find this hilariousssssss after sulake's art guide which pretty much says dont resizeeee

[oftenMiceElf]

Find this hilariousssssss after sulake's art guide which pretty much says dont resizeeee

Funny; Maybe, given the timing and when the guide finally trickled down to you all, but its purpose was geared more at making sure fansite submissions work with-in the file constraints for our web assets in addition to limiting what the production team would need to fix. While at the same time keeping some elements secured for us to use and not confused with user made imagery. The game itself and its assets live outside that guide.

The bigger picture here is where the time gained from not needing to redraw assets can better be utilized. The sheer amount of work that goes into items like clothing or pets, coupled with the small team, really makes those small assets a hinderance (unfortunately); Despite the history and the communal love for them.

I can fully respect your initial displeasure with the look of the code base down-scaling because it will never be exactly on par with the manually redrawn assets you're so accustomed to seeing, but, give it a chance. It's something we introduced with the iOS version of Habbo and it can only get more refined with constructive feedback. If this were a Disney forum this would be a good spot to throw in a "to infinity and beyond" reference. But it's not... so now I feel silly.

[Rachel]

I sometimes use that feature as it does remind me of back in the day. I hope they won't be removing it

[Kotu]

Don't necessarily mind this, but it looks incredibly messy right now because of the inconsistencies between the way the Habbos are being resized and how the furniture and everything else is being resized.

[Michael]

The new :zoom feature is really cool, they should put it as a button though instead of commands

[Yannyboy]

The new :zoom feature is really cool, they should put it as a button though instead of commands

Agreed

[dbgtz]

Zoom command is great. I love zooming in a lot, reminds me of that mini series they once did. Snout Hill I think it was called?

[Joe]

Takes time to make the extra sprites required for new furni and clothes and, you know what they say, time = money.

Ah, didn't read that bit..

[October]

A necessary change in order to cut costs. Also, a lot of furni doesn't seem to look right zoomed out (well, mostly aimed at the builders blocks).

how would that cut costs?