[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10659)

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10659 >

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Benedict Adamson wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10659 >
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> Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
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> > The reason it wasn't commited was because IIRC it worked by having multiple
> > sized copies of each tile. The generation of these copies was very slow
> > and used lots of memory, since everything was duplicated several
> > times. Using something like OpenGL would allow us to have zoom essentially
> > for free at reasonable speeds.
> ...
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> IIRC Gnome and/or KDE support SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) icons,
> using a GPLed SVG rendering library. Unfortunately, I do not know the
> details. Would something like that be more suitable than Open GL?

That could work. But you would need someone to draw a complete SVG
tileset. While Arturo is working on a Worms SVG tileset, it is not yet
complete. Also, some people might object the cheeky style. :-)

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa