[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2217) Isotrident 17 and morecities patch

[Daniel L Speyer <dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's trident support (new cities.xpm attatched):

-- trident.old/cities.spec     Wed Dec 29 11:47:01 1999
+++ trident/cities.spec Wed Nov 13 18:00:44 2002
@@ -82,4 +82,17 @@
  4,  3, "city.postmodern_wall"
  4,  4, "city.postmodern_occupied"
 
+ 5,  0, "city.asian_0"
+ 5,  1, "city.asian_5"
+ 5,  2, "city.asian_10"
+ 5,  3, "city.asian_wall"
+ 5,  4, "city.asian_occupied"
+
+ 6,  0, "city.tropical_0"
+ 6,  1, "city.tropical_5"
+ 6,  2, "city.tropical_10"
+ 6,  3, "city.tropical_wall"
+ 6,  4, "city.tropical_occupied"
+
+
 }


Can you specify what's wrong with the degradation?  Apart from the massive
quantity of European cities (which is what we have now anyway).  I didn't
quite understand your statement.

--Daniel Speyer
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kidnapping and murder on the high seas, you probably shouldn't use the
phrase "software piracy."

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Jason Short via RT wrote:

> 
> [dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx - Sat Oct 19 01:54:56 2002]:
> 
> > Two related announcements:
> > 
> > Isotrident 17 is now avaialble on freeciv's ftp.  It should look exactly
> > the same for current clients, but it contains eyecandy support (maybe now 
> > eyecandy can be included?), better messagewin support (yes, I am going to
> > clean up & re-submit that), and two additional city-styles.
> > 
> > I have attatched here the changes to the data directory needed to use the
> > new city styles.  No code is altered, and it degrades gracefully under
> > non-supporting tilesets.  We need no longer suffer the embarissment of
> > calling Vietnam "European".
> 
> It doesn't degrade *that* gracefully under non-supporting tilesets.
> 
> To begin with, you need to set graphic_alt for the new city stiles to
> one of the old city graphics choices - otherwise it loads only a partial
> city style.  I used city.classical for asian and city.european for
> tropical, just for symmetry.  Even so, when you run civclient under a
> non-supporting tileset, it means the "Asian" cities are still there but
> just use the classical graphics.  In other words, each of the two
> existing city styles is duplicated.
> 
> This is acceptable in most cases.  But I do think we need support for
> the new city styles in Trident tileset.  Can this be done?
> 
> jason
> 
>

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