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url:http://crossfire.freezope.org/docs/Developer%20Docs/images |
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Making Crossfire Images |
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Rules for image sets: |
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1. Image format for all images should |
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be png. |
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2. There must be an active maintainer of each of the image sets. If a set |
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gets too out of date because of no maintainer, that particular set gets |
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removed. |
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3. When new arch (and image) is introduced, only an image for the main set is |
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required. It is up to the maintainers of the different sets to make an image |
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if the default one is not appropriate. |
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4. There must be a reason for adding a new set. This generally equates |
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to enough people expressing interest in the set, or the number of new images |
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is substantial enough to warrant the addition. The use of image sets |
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is not for making a set with 10 images because you prefer those over |
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some in another set. |
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5. Naming works like this: If the image name is Bk.272, then the |
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actual file name would be Bk.*set*.272.png where *set* is a four letter |
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abbreviation that has some relevance to the set name. An example would be |
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Bk.*clsc*.272.png, where *clsc* is the classic image set. The arch of course |
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would only refer to BK.272 |
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6. Whenever adding a new image set, update the |
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lib/image_info file |
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7. Image sets only provide alternate images - |
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the .arc files are remained unchanged by the addition of image sets. |
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An arch must have a graphic from the *base* set, graphic from additional |
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image sets are optional, but if an arch has one image version -it has to be called base. |
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Internal working of image sets: |
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All images within crossfire are still known without the set or png |
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extension. Thus, for archetypes, the image name is sword.111, not |
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sword.base.111.png. |
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The collect script only collects the images for the set. If the client |
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requests an image that is not in the set it is using, the server will |
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use the fallback logic to find an image to send to the client. Collecting |
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only the images in the set results in smaller installed image files, |
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a smaller memory footprint for the server, and faster loading time. |
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The server does not care about the image content. As far as the server |
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is concerned, it is just a bunch of bits it serves to the client. |
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The server uses the image number, the long name, and the fallback. |
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The long name can be used when the client requests the images it |
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gets sent. |
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Combining individual small images into 1 big image: |
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There are a great many objects in crossfire that are bigger than one square. |
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Prior to this writing (May 18, 2002), there was no way to combine these into |
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one big image. The server and unix clients now support this. |
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1. Evaluate if the archetype should be as many spaces as the image may extend |
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into. For example, a tower is tall, and even though the image may represent |
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that, it should probably only be a single square object. But there are other |
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objects, such as shops, which are short but large, and thus should be 2x2 |
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square multipart objects. |
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2. A combined image doesn't have parts anymore, so the first digit isn't |
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meaning. Using an 'x' as the part number is a good notation to show that |
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this is in fact a big image (eg, store_alch.x11). |
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3. It is not possible to have combined images in one image set and non combined |
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in another. What this basically means is that the base set should always have |
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a combined image, with the other sets possibly having such images - since the |
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name of the combined image will be different, until any other sets are updated, |
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they will just use the image in the base set. |
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4. the .arc file needs to be modified so that the face for all the different |
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parts of an image are the same. The server makes this check based on name to |
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know if it should handle this object as a combined image or not. |
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5. Rebuild the archetypes, collect the images, and install. |
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