[crossfire] abil_burning_hands.arc face is spell/Cone/spell_burning_hands.base.111.png?

[Mark Wedel]

  Face names are unique.  The collect script goes through the arch directory, 
collecting all the .arc files, .face, etc.  It then builds the lib/bmaps file - 
if you look there, you will notice that there is no path in it.

  That file basically provides a mapping of face name to face number.  So if 
something uses foobar.111.png, the game looks to see what number it is.

  The client does not have the arch directory - rather, the server has a file 
with all the faces.  When that file is generated, it just collects all the .png 
files into one file (for speed) - once again, the path information is not needed.

So for your script, what would probably make sense is to parse the 
lib/bmaps.paths - that contains the full path names.

I'm not quite sure how the editor does it.

Also, it is not allowed to use the same face name for 2 different images - I'm 
not quite sure what will happen - I think collect may complain, but otherwise, 
it may depend on the order the directory tree is walked.


On 06/05/2019 02:21 PM, Bob Tanner wrote:
> Trying match a face to the abil_burning_hands.arc and I do not understand the 
> logic.
> 
> $ cat spell/Ability/abil_burning_hands.arc | grep -i face
> face spell_burning_hands.111
> 
> My python code looks for the face in spell/Ability/spell_burning_hands.111.png
> but it’s not there. Manually looking around I find the face in 
> spell/Cone/spell_burning_hands.base.111.png
> 
> Given I have spell/Ability/abil_burning_hands.arc and "face 
> spell_burning_hands.111" how do I know to look in spell/Cone for 
> spell_burning_hands.base.111.png?
> 
> How does crossfire do this itself?
> 
> Take the face and search the filesystem for a match?
> 
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