[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Sound/Eye-candy

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Erik Sigra wrote:

> söndagen den 11 februari 2001 06:38 skrev Nghia:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just recently joined this list. How come sound fx isn't implemented by
> > now? I don't see anything hard about this since you can use the
> > SDL library which is availiable on lots of platform or a similar
> > library.

I've looked at SDL once and from what i saw it only supported *one*
drawing surface...  IMO we need several drawing surfaces: one for the
mapview, another for *each* cityview, maybe some more i can't remember.

We are using the native toolkit & adding gfx inside it here. Not making a
game that features it's own custom toolkit built over basic gfx primitives
on a single drawing surface like CivCTP for e.g.
Of course we could also do that even if it makes you loose desktop
interaction a bit.  But i don't feel like making a tooolkit from scratch.
Any volunteers? ;)

> 
> Have you looked at Xconq's SDL implementation lately? It runs on at least 
> UNIX and Mac.
> 
> > Also btw is anyone working on any eye-candy extra for freeciv? I've been
> > mucking around with the "city view" thing like the original civ where
> > you see what you built graphically but its in 16 bit color, so that
> > might be a problem.

Someone drew some gfx for the city improvements a long time ago and the
Civ2 based HiRes tiles include some improvement gfx too.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa