Board Thread:General discussions/@comment-5079138-20171206153225

So i was kinda bored and stuff and decided to revisit the making of PvZ presentation and noted some interesting things on a blog. One thing that catches my attention is how beta 0.92 the lawn mower's sprite being different from the final release.



See that? I was planning to make the beta lawnmower for the final PvZ1, but the thing that stopped me from doing that is that there were no full models of the lawn mower, or at least the rear of it, so I thought "nvm. Won't work", but then I came across the lawn mower's gallery page and found something that surprised me: There's a pic of the beta lawn mower and it's claimed to be from PopCap's website. This means that they still have traces of the beta versions, kinda like how Rockstar managed to slip some beta contents and pics in the final version of their GTA games (read: lazy to replace the old promotional assets with new ones).

This thing is still in beta (no pun intended) and the only problems I'm having are:

1. The wheels don't spin. This is because I actually made the front and rear wheels part of the lawn mower body instead of separating them into 2 separate wheel sprites (those are replaced by blank PNG pics instead)

2. If you look closely, there are traces of that blue and green tint on the edges of the mower which are traces from the original picture in the gallery page. This is because I'm not that good at photoshop and couldn't figure out how to remove those.

3. The shadows don't line up with it.

But other than that, this somewhat works and can be used straight away.

Get it here.

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