[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Graphics

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Raimar Falke wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 03:01:15PM -0600, Dan Johansson wrote:
> > 1.      What are the limits for making tiles and other icons?
> > (Resolution and color depth)
> A lot of the tilesets have a size of 30x30. There is one 45x45 and
> some 20x20. AFAIK all tilesets use 8 bits.

So tile size (=resolution) is not an issue.  Are you saying there's no 
support for modes other than 8-bit, or just that all tilesets happen to 
be 8-bit?

> > 2.      Is there going to be any color mode/resolution changing options
> > in freeciv? (I prefer make the graphics 24 bit but it greatly adds to
> > the file size)
> No. I know nobody who is working on this. Freeciv doesn't run
> fullscreen, but in a window.

This is a function of the GUI, not specific to FreeCiv in general (I 
think).  For instance, if someone were to make an SDL client they'd 
probably want to make it full-screen, and add support for changing 
resolutions.
So, changing resolutions isn't needed by the client, since it runs in a 
window anyway (the user can change the size of the desktop if desired). 
 Using a different color mode is a problem, though - I'm not even sure 
how you'd go about it.

> > 3.      Would you like me to make a high resolution pack for freeciv
> > meaning bigger tiles higher color depth and can someone fix the display
> > problems that will arise from changing the resolution?
> What IMHO really needed is a nice isometric tileset. There are various
> non-isometric but only one isometric. This one is ugly. If you can
> made a nice isometric one?!

I too would like a nice isometric tileset - I like isometric view, but I 
dislike the "hires" tileset.  But I would also enjoy a high-resolution 
tileset of any sort - right now I usually use Engels just because it's 
the largest, and on my 100dpi monitor the smaller ones don't look very good.
jason