[Freecol-graphics] (no subject)

[Stian G. <sti...@st...>]

Hi everyone,

You have all expressed interest in working on FreeCol's graphics. Some of
you are now members of the graphics mailing list, while other have
received this message as blind-CC.

For those people not already on the mailing list, please join at:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecol-graphics

There have been some time since we had a team working actively on
FreeCol's graphics. The person working on the unit graphics quit the
project after completing the standard set of units, while the interface
designer and a terrain graphics designer suddenly disappeared without
notice.

It would be great if we could have a new team working on the graphics. You
have expressed interest in working in many different areas: terrain
graphics, panel skins, movie clips, unit animations etc. I think it would
be fantastic if you could cooperate to produce a coherent appearance of
the game.

Please start discussing the areas you would like to work in, and try to
decide on a common style (preferably along the lines of the existing look
in order to minimize the work needed).

The programmers would be happy to implement any new code needed for
supporting animations etc - just ask us :-)

The examples/changes I have seen so far are quite promising, and I think
FreeCol would be really awesome if you all complete the work you have
suggested.

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By the way: You might get some inspiration or even take some graphics from
Colonies, another project aimed at recreating/improving Colonization. They
have taken most of the graphics from us, but created some new graphics
like buildings, skins etc. Try visiting their website at:
http://www.swecol2.com/
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The existing graphics source files are available in a Subversion
repository: https://svn.freecol.org/svnroot/freecol/graphics/trunk/
...just send a message to the developer's mailing list
(dev...@fr...) if you haven't used Subversion before or try
reading the documentation on: http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=43225.

Here are some of the other tools/services you can use:
- We can create a tracker for the graphics. This could be used for
creating a list of work to be completed and also for assigning tasks (it
would be similar to our feature tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=43225&atid=435581).

- It is possible to create a section/gallery on freecol.org that can be
used for displaying work-in-progress.


Start working together and help make FreeCol one of the best games
available! :-)

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Stian Grenborgen