[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7123) Metaissue for FS

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7123 >

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:
> I copied the start screens of http://arianne.sourceforge.net/ and
> http://www.ospace.net/ to see how difficult the creation is and to
> adapt the code.
>
> The screens are available at
> http://www.freeciv.org/~rfalke/fs2_pics/. Since I broke the code with
> some of the changes (nation screen and main map are no more) I can't
> show any code. But I made a gif animation how it runs with the
> built-in screen dumper. These are in the same directory and bzip'ed
> because the gifs are 14mb.

How you considered using Thomas/CapTVK's scans? They are black/white,
IIRC, but quite nice drawings of ancient places. RT used to show one of
them.

Also, using real photography is an option. See eg the file pd_images.zip
in Freeciv incoming.

  - Per