[CF-Devel] Error in CFJavaEditor

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Todd Mitchell wrote:

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      Even if the smoohting templates aren't directly incorporated (the editor
     
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      wouldn't need to display them to mapmakers but it might use them to do
     
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      smoothing...), I expect some of the larger pictures will eventually get
     
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      reconsolodated into a single PNG.  The larger ones will be done first likely
     
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      since they are hardest to maintain in sections.  They may not be quite
     
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      512x64 but they will be large.  Actually that brings up a question - how big
     
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      can things get?  How about a 512x64 giant worm?  This is especially
     
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      interesting line of thought when you see some of the newer clients with
     
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      really large map display areas.
     
     
  There are two real limits:

1) The size of the image itself.  For practical purposes, this would be a bit 
less than 64k (max packet size is 64k, and you need a few bytes for other data). 
  In addition to that, I believe that when the server sends an image to the 
client, it only uses 2 bytes for how big the image is.  So having a bigger 
packet size doesn't fix that problem.

  Note that such big images could still have a problem in other regards (if such 
a large image was sent during play, that could create a bit of latency).  But if 
the user downloads all the images first, that isn't a big deal.

2) The number of spaces the image expands.  This is currently defined to be 6 
spaces (really 7 - it is 6 off the edge of the map).  So this effectively means 
a 192x192 image.

  At some level, images bigger than that may not make a lot of sense - after 
all, the player may not run with the full 25x25 map, and at some level, scale is 
relative - some of the very big monsters right now can even seem a bit big.



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