[CF-Devel] new wall faces for png

[Mark Wedel]

 I don't have nay big problems with it.  It will mean the server will consume a
little more memory, and the client will take a little more bandwidth (as the
image data needs to be sent to them).

 A while back, I believe Bt had suggested making curves for other terrain types
(forests, plains, etc) so things wouldn't be so blocky.  I can't remember why I
said it was a bad idea at the time - probably for the same reasons as above, but
computers and bandwidth have changed quite a bit since that time.  If someone
wants to revisit that idea, it seems fine to me.



Andreas Vogl wrote:
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      I noticed on many maps that walls are used "incorrectly"
     
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      in regard of perspective. That doesn't matter for xpms because
     
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      they are so small that perspective is hardly noticed. But for
     
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      the larger pngs it looks really ugly.
     
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      So I've created some totally new kinds of wall faces.
     
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      As an "example", I changed the zoo in scorn and the HallOfSelection
     
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      to take advantage of these new images. I made snapshots so
     
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      you can see the difference "before - afterwards":
     
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      http://mids.student.utwente.nl/~avogl/zoo/
      
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      Right now the new pics are simply invisible in xpm mode, but I
     
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      think they could be drawn in xpm pretty much alike.
     
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      I'd like to change more maps to take advantage of this new "look".
     
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      So, tell me what you think about it. Is it okay to do so?
     
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      Does anyone have objections?
     
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      Andreas V.
     
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