Re: More flexible unit image use

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

Hi Elijah,

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Elijah Meeks wrote:

> I think there should be a serious overhaul of the
> graphics used by XConq. 

This is something you could probably do. Just edit them out of the 
'imf.dir' file in the 'lib' directory. And, once it is cleaned up, 
give the new file to Hans or myself, so we can look it over 
and merge the cleaned up image directory into CVS.

> Some of them are atrocious

Agreed. There are a lot of rather "chunky" or "stick figure" type 
graphics that can probably go away, or at least not be part of the 
main images library.

Of course, when cleaning things up, you might have to look to see 
in which modules the "atrocious" graphics are being used, and 
provide suitable replacements.

> (I've contributed my fair share with the Spec tiles,
> and I think they can be removed with no ill will) 

The Spec tiles don't look so bad compared to some of the stuff in 
the images lib.

> projects and I think there's enough good, free
> graphics that we could finally see the end of four
> monochrome guys with pikes representing infantry.

Oh, those are pikes? I couldn't quite tell; I thought I saw the 
ends of bayonets, but I never looked that closely.

Eric