[CF-Devel] new release: CFJavaEditor 0.971

[Mark Wedel]

Michael Toennies wrote:

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      Also, as i add i copy&paste a false name, so i make a yoyodyme folder in CVS
     
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      main tree.
     
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      Can one remove it? Mark, Tanners?
     
     
 Since the CVS repository is hosted on sourceforge, everyone basically has the
same power to create/destroy.

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      The face file should be also removed, its nonsense to assign xpm/xbm color
     
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      values to the faces.
     
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      As i understand, this is used for the magic map command. This must be
     
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      reworked for the png only
     
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      set, so i drop it too.
     
     
 Do you have a better suggestion for what to do?  Its easy to say what is
currently there is not ideal, but often harder to come up with a good solution.

 For png, if magic map is to be supported in the same form, that information is
needed.  The server otherwise has no way of knowing what color the different
items are (and since as far as the server is concerned, the images are just a
bunch of bits which it does not understand, so it can't really look at the
images and generate what color it should be).

 Since the color/face data already exists, it makes keeping and using it the
easiest solution.

 Now magic mapping could of course get reworked to do something else, like send
the actual faces for all the spaces, and the client can then scale it down or
the like (which many other games do for the larger view).  This would consume
much more bandwidth (at minimum, twice as much of only 1 face/square is sent),
and may be much more useful (if all faces on a space are sent) or less useful
(if bottom space (typically terrain/floor/wall) is sent, or somewhere between
depending on what all gets sent.


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