[CF-Devel] CF DX Snapshot

[Mark Wedel]

Michael Toennies wrote:
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      > The Big one is that you only have the Image of
     
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      > the item in inventory. That makes play the game
     
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      > a major pain. May items look alike eg. rings.
     
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      > from  the design lay out I think you could push it
     
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      > inventory window up to and then spread things out.
     
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      Hm, i don't know exactly what you mean. At the moment, i draw all
     
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      items with his faces, of course i will use the animations of it after
     
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      i go on with the interface.
     
     
 I think his point is a ring of strength +2 has the same face as a ring pro
fire/vuln cold, as well as most any other ring, and you probably want a quick
way to know what ring is what.


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      Nope, i use the linux client as source base, i never see the windows client
     
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      source. One reason to write it was the poor key bindings of the windows
     
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      client,
     
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      i will make almost of the keyboard free for binding, except some defined key
     
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      the basic interface (like the keyboard num block for walking on the map and
     
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      the
     
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      cursor keys  for cursor moving in inventory.)
     
     
 Fortunately for windows at least is tht you have fewer keyboard layouts to deal
with (the unix client has bindings for a decent variety of keyboards to try to
make it more functional on first use).  I think tht might still be nice for a
windows client for basic action, like apply below, search for traps, etc.  You
can let those keys be unbound/rebound, but I think it is preferable for a client
to have a more functional setup as distributed.


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      **** At all, we need more people drawing pngs in 24bit and draw the
     
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      backgrounds        ****
     
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      **** for the dx client. All gfx in there are frome me and i nothing more
     
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      than dummys!! ****
     
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      **** Give me a mail, if you want try some gfx, i have all backgrounds as
     
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      pngs dummys!! ****
     
     
 Why are you using your own png's instead of downloading them from the server?
It seems like that creates more work for yourself - you need your own set of
images, but also creates a scenario where each time the server has new
items/monsters/whatever with images, you will need to make a new client.