[Freeciv-Dev] Re: graphics...

[Miguel Farah <miguel@xxxxx>]

 Per I Mathisen [31/05/2002 06:52] dijo/said:
>On Fri, 31 May 2002, Jules Bean wrote:
>> Letters represent unit types (w: warrior, c: catapult, s: settler).
>>
>> Colours represent the side the unit is on.  The 'action' of a unit
>> (fortify, irrigate, etc) could be represented by the background colour
>> of the square.
>>
>> Terrain types are indicated by symbols('.' for sea, ':' for grassland,
>> '/' for mountains), using colour just to make things a little more
>> recognisable (blue for sea, green for grassland, grey for mountains
>> etc)
>>
>> Cities would be numbers.  With some convention like 1-9 means 1-9, but
>> yellow 0-9 means 10-19, and red 0-9 means 20-29.
>>
>> Some other information would have to be represented textually in a
>> side panel (like angband has a side panel)
>>
>> It's an interesting project, actually.. would be a lot of work,
>> though.
>
>You mean like this (drawn by Brunus three years ago):
>
>+----------------------+------------------------------------------+
>| 6,680,000 People     |~~~~~~~~~~~~§~§~~~§~§~~~~~~~~~//9:::######|
>| Year: 1140 BC        |~~~~~~~~~~~~~§~~~~~§~~~~~~~~~~===:::######|
>| Gold: 965            |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~//8~~~~~~~~~~~~;;;:::######|
>| Tax:40 Lux:0 Sci:60  |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---~~~~~~~~~~~~;;;:::######|
>+----------------------+~~~~~~~~~~§~:::|||:::~~~~~~~~~~~~::::::;;;|
>| Destroyer (veteran)  |~~~~~~~~~§~§:::|||:::~~~~~~~~~~~~::::::;;;|
>| Moves: 8             |~~~~~~;;;//6^^^:::::::::~~~~~~~~~:::::::::|
>| Ocean                |~~~~~~;;;===^^^^^^::::::~~~~~~~~~:::::::::|
>| Tingis               |######:::###:::^^^::::::~~~~~~:::::::::~~~|
>+----------------------+######:::###:::^*^::::::~~~~~~:::::::::~~~|
>| _/\ ====             |//4;;;######::::::::::::::://6:::~~~~~~~~~|
>| \_/                  |===;;;######:::::::::::::::---^^^~~~~~~~~~|
>|                      |::::::::::::###~~~~~~::::::::::::§~§~~~~~~|
>|                      |:::::::::^^^###~~~~~~::::::::::::~§~~~~~~~|
>|                      |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
>|                      |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
>+----------------------+------------------------------------------+
>| Game: Pollution near Massilia                                   |
>| Game: Learned Mobile Warfare. Our scientists focus on Robotics, |
>|  goal is Robotics.                                              |
>+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

Oh my God. Now I have to go back to play some more NetHack.