Re: More flexible unit image use

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>]

Elijah Meeks wrote:

> That's amazing.  I'll be checking in the new version
> of Specula, called Opal (The old name sounds too much
> like a medical contraption), 

As long as no one confuses the new name with an American automaker's 
European operations. :-)

>in a few days.  Along
> with Opal (And what I've been spending much of my time
> on lately) will be the Angband set of graphics from
> molotov.nu.  

Oh, that's right, __I forgot that some folks were into Angband GUI's. 
Never tried one myself. I played my hobbit rogue (think savings throws; 
he was a bit weak in straight combat for the first 40 levels or so, but 
after that he got a big enough boost from artifacts and other powerful 
items so that it didn't matter too much) through 100 levels of character 
"graphics" to topple Morgoth.

> It's taking a while to reformat the gifs and write the
> imf, but when I'm done, there'll be quite a bit of new
> images for any Xconq fantasy games.  

Looks like a major contribution.

> And, just to show that I'm never satisfied, is there
> any way to set side-specific unit images?

I've had the same desire for Wreckreation (the newest development 
version has more sides, and many, many more units). This would go well 
with side-specific unit namers.

Eric