[Freeciv-Dev] Re: civ3gfx

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
>
>
> > I put up a civ3gfx tileset in
> > ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/contrib/tilesets/civ3gfx/.
> >
> > It includes a script that automatically downloads and converts the
> > Womoks tileset.  Note that this tileset is based on the original civ3
> > graphics and cannot be freely redistributed!  There's probably a full
> > tileset's worth of all-new graphics out there but I don't know where it
> > is.  I encourage anyone in trying to put together a free tileset of
> > top-notch graphics.
> We should just draw something ourselves, no matter how ugly it is and just not
> redistribute any art with dubious copyright status.
> Probably the best way would be to use some 3D fractal landscape
> generator software, with our own textures and use that as the basis for
> the tileset.
It would be possible to automatically recombine isotrident graphics into 
such a tileset.  Of course the new tileset will look identical to the 
current one but it will have 20 times as many sprites.  These sprites 
can then be replaced one at a time with drawn or rendered graphics.
However I'm not quite sure how to do this recombining.  You could do it 
with GDK with a process of loading, cropping, merging, and saving.  It 
would probably be easier to do with imagemagick or a scripting language.
jason