[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New worms tileset snapshot.

["Arturo Espinosa-Aldama" <arturoea@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Arturo Espinosa-Aldama <arturoea@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Freeciv-Dev] New worms tileset snapshot.
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:22:46 +0000 (GMT)
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Arturo Espinosa-Aldama wrote:
> > OK, I've generated a snapshot of what I've come up with up to this day. 
> You
> > can grab it at:
> >
> > 
> http://www.geocities.com/pupitetris/Code/worms-tileset-128x64-20030812.png
> >
> > It's rendered at 128x64, but of course, I could change it to the more 
> normal
> > 64x32 format.
>
> Very impressive. I like how clean and sharp they are. You could try to
> shrink them down to normal tile size and use them to replace the trident
> tileset, if only to see how it would work out.
>
> Anyone know how hard it would be to add SVG support to Freeciv?  GZip
> compressed, SVG should be far smaller than PNG for such graphics, and
> allows lossless zooming.
Run-time SVG rendering would be much more CPU hungry than the current 
approach. Now, assuming that the user wouldn't zoom in and out too often 
(but they may find it handy and want to do it all the time), the tiles could 
be cached on memory at run-time, so the display would stay with the same 
system as it is currently, only with dynamic tile geometry incorporated. An 
interesting approach would be to use OpenGL as an engine for SVG 
rasterizing, and such a project could actually exist now, but I'm just 
speculating here.
Take a look at sodipodi; it has a library called libnr that takes care of 
rasterizing the svg files.
When I release the tileset, it will ship with a script that will generate 
the images, as long as the user has bash, perl, xpat, TheGIMP, ImageMagick 
and sodipodi installed. A typical Linux user would only have to install the 
former, as the others are stock parts of the typical modern Linux 
workstation. Those who take the bother of installing the sodipodi package 
will enjoy the possibility to select their own tile geometry and a faster 
download.
Of course, with other OSes, your mileage may vary.

Greetings,
Arturo

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