Image of stones

[chroneus]

The drawing of stones have impact on UX and needs some changes, imo.
I suggest to

1. use rendered 3d image as a stone, and
2. change mechanics of moving turn:
   a. set off the moving stones by either grey out it or colored the intersection to put
   b. move stone continiously not discrete

[gizrak]

Good point. I read your opinion impressively.
I've seen your HTML5 based goban site. It is nice and fancy.
Thank you for your suggestion and learns a lot from your page.

[bitmage]

@chroneus:

Do you mean pre-rendered and saved as images, or some way of rendering in the browser? I assume pre-rendered. I think that's a good idea, but I don't really have any experience with 3D tools. Is this something you could create?

It would be cool to get an SVG, because the whole board right now is resizeable, and an SVG would preserve the image quality on a larger board. But if we get a high enough resolution image it won't matter either.

I kind of like the discrete placement, it gives me a clear idea of where the stone is going to land. I think graying it out would work well. Probably best to settle on what kind of image we want to use before doing transparency.