From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6560 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2004 18:23:26 -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 6553 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2004 18:23:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sccrmhc11.comcast.net) (204.127.202.55) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 1 Aug 2004 18:23:25 -0000 Received: from [192.168.181.128] (c-67-172-156-222.client.comcast.net[67.172.156.222]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004080118232501100t7730e>; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 18:23:25 +0000 Message-ID: <410D3514.8090608@phy.cmich.edu> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 18:26:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Ronne CC: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Major Game Upgrade + New Images: Specula is now Opal 2.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00816.txt.bz2 Hans Ronne wrote: >>Note to game designers: >> Elijah has also been industriously working on importing a grpahical >>image set for Angband into Xconq recently. I have checked in the first >>part of his endeavors. The available images are listed in >>'lib/angband.imf'; I have refrained from adding the images to the >>'lib/imf.dir', since the problems with Imfapp have not yet been sorted out. > > I will check an improved IMFApp soon, that works better on all platforms. Good. > But I am not sure that we should continue to keep all images in one imf.dir > even if IMFApp can handle it. The only point of having it is that you don't > need to include the relevant *.imf files in the game file, Right. And that is quite convenient, wouldn't you agree? Why get rid of it? > but many game > files do that anyway. This comes at the expense of having to rummage through each ".imf" file separately. Having a catalog of all images in one location (which can be browsed with Imfapp) is more useful, IMO. Eric