[Freeciv] Re: Isometric Mode

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 05 April 2001 18:01, Spider Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Thue wrote:
> > On Monday 02 April 2001 15:12, Spider Murphy wrote:
> > > Hi! I've dug around in the FAQs, the how-to's, the discussion articles,
> > > the isometric screenshots, pretty much looked everywhere short of the
> > > source code itself, and I can't figure out how to run the freeciv
> > > client in isometric mode. I downloaded the source from CVS just fine,
> > > and it compiled smoothly as well, using the GTK+ widgets, but I can't
> > > seem to find any options to let me execute the client in that mode.
> > >
> > > Was there some makefile option I was supposed to set to get isometric
> > > mode? I didn't see anything there at the time.
> > >
> > > Craig Rickel
> >
> > The isometric mode is the default one. It should be on by default in the
> > gtk client. (which it seems you have tried). You are sure you have a
> > recent CVS snapshot?
> > Try starting the gtk client with "--tiles hires" and see what it says.
> >
> > -Thue
>
> How terribly odd. :) I found out part of the problem. I was getting a
> message during startup that told me the data path wasn't set, that it
> couldn't find the hires tile set, and that it was using trident
> instead. So, I set it to /usr/local/share/freeciv, ran it again, and then
> I got isometric mode - sort of. All the terrain is missing, and a whole
> bunch of error messages spooled across the terminal window I was using,
> two or three screen worth, all looking like:
>
> 1: Don't have graphics tags for t.tundra_n0s0e0w0 or -_n0s0e0w0 for
> tile_type Tundra
> 1: Don't have graphics tags for t.tundra_n1s0e0w0 or -_n1s0e0w0 for
> tile_type Tundra
> 1: Don't have graphics tags for t.tundra_n0s1e0w0 or -_n0s1e0w0 for
> tile_type Tundra
> ...
>
> except for a few down at the bottom which read:
>
> 1: Warning: no wall tile for graphic city.european
> 1: Warning: no wall tile for graphic city.classical
> ...
>
> Also, when the client program was first loading, I got these:
>
> 1: Unused entries in file /usr/local/share/freeciv/hires.spec
> 1:   unused entry: tilespec.is_isometric
> 1: Unused entries in file /usr/local/share/freeciv/hires/terrain1.spec:
> 1:   unused entry: grid_main.is_pixel_border
> 1:   unused entry: grid_extra.is_pixel_border
> 1:   unused entry: grid_isolated.is_pixel_border
> 1: Unused entries in file /usr/local/share/freeciv/hires/terrain2.spec:
> 1:   unused entry: grid_main.is_pixel_border
> 1:   unused entry: grid_coasts.is_pixel_border
>
> I have no idea what these mean or how to fix it. :) As for having a recent
> copy off of CVS, well... I only downloaded CVS last week and ran that
> immediately to download the freeciv source files, compiled and
> installed. I had an older copy of freeciv around, but I figured it would
> write over any old files it found. Thoughts?
>
> Craig

It looks like you are using the old client. Try civclient --version
One of the versions is probably in /usr/local/bin and the other in /usr/bin.

-Thue