From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30341 invoked by alias); 11 Aug 2004 01:23:59 -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 30331 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2004 01:23:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sccrmhc12.comcast.net) (204.127.202.56) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 11 Aug 2004 01:23:59 -0000 Received: from [192.168.181.128] (c-67-172-156-222.client.comcast.net[67.172.156.222]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004081101235801200pmut6e>; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:23:58 +0000 Message-ID: <4119751D.4080402@phy.cmich.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:28:00 -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: IMFApp Office References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00864.txt.bz2 Hans Ronne wrote: > There are actually two completely different ways to draw terrain in Xconq: > as tiles or as individual images. I had gathered that from browsing the IMF's a few days ago, and also previously from noticing that some terrains were drawn as squares (as with colors) in IMFapp, but others, like the Civ2 terrains, were drawn in hexagons. > Now, if IMFApp does not find a special "tile" image (which it will never do > in the case of a unit) it will make one from the available image and use it > as a tile. That is why the background unit images are trimmed to 32x32 > size. They were converted to "tiles" before being used to draw the > background. OK. That is fine for a technical explanation of what is happening, but it still not very intuitive from an user's persepctive, I think. > I would add that the whole tile drawing machinery is semi-obsolete, a > remnant from the time when Xconq did not have true images. The best way to > draw terrain is certainly the latter, I would agree; it seems that that would be less computationally expensive. > One could of course make IMFApp draw backgrounds by using individual images > instead of tiles, This is more like what I had expected. Eric