From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11426 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2004 02:24:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11355 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 02:24:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web13123.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.174.141) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 5 Dec 2004 02:24:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 56581 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Dec 2004 02:24:07 -0000 Message-ID: <20041205022407.56579.qmail@web13123.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.164.122.15] by web13123.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 04 Dec 2004 18:24:07 PST Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 04:59:00 -0000 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Re: Isometric images, sattelite images, and rotation To: Eric McDonald , mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com, xconq-hackers@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <41B2506D.7070902@phy.cmich.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01464.txt.bz2 > > Unfortunately our CVS repo is already burdened with > lots of images. I > would be loathe to increase checkout or update times > any more than > absolutely necessary. (We can probably win back much > space in the repo > and in the file releases, if we go from GIF to PNG, > since PNG generally > achieves better compression.) > > While I agree that having a stock of 6 different > isometric images, plus > an overhead one, might be ideal, I think it places a > large space burden > on the Xconq project, and another burden on > designers of terrain tiles. > If we can avoid making this a requirement, I think > we would be better off. > Can't we default to the current system (setting it up so that if there are terrain images called that don't exist, that it defaults to the single view) and then have a seperate Isometric Patch in the patch section? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250