[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7123) Metaissue for FS (2)

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:36:45PM -0800, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> 
> <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.
> 
> One thing, the problem with using fixed size bitmap images like these is
> that you are locked into one screen resolution. (Unless you want to
> rescale the images, either increases distrubution size by an order of
> magnitude or gives crappy grainy dynamic rescales.)

A gui-fs theme is for a specific screen resolution. What theme we will
distribute by default and what size this theme has is another
question.

> The price (resolution lock) may be worth the result (significantly better
> graphics), however.
> 
> Consider testing this with gui-fs, putting the login-stuff on the right
> hand side: ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/incoming/vla-22.3.jpg

The jpg picture ok for testing but insufficient for real usage. I can
see the artifacts even without any scaling. The Arianne guys however
had a good starting picture
(http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/arianne/newarianne/binaries/gamedata/loginscreen.bmp?rev=1.1&view=auto)
which is 512x512. They scaled it however to 640x480 and the result is
ugly:
http://arianne.sourceforge.net/files/screenshots/3d10062003_gui.jpg. Scaling
artifacts all over the place. I had the same problem with my Arianne
ripoff.

The picture is at http://www.freeciv.org/~rfalke/fs2_pics/telescope.png.

        Raimar

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