[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Animated nukes

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem with animation is it quickly consumes memory.  I wrote an 
animation patch for units (it's in RT), but the animation graphics take 
30 megabytes of memory for each unit type!  In our current method of 
preloading everything, this is unacceptable...we will need a caching 
system, or an animation library that has reasonable compression.
Nuke graphics are pretty simple but the animation code should be the 
same as for all other animations.
P.S.  This whole conversation should be in rt...

-jason