Re: [Slashem-discuss] Hail!

[J. A. H. <al...@av...>]

On 2003.04.09 16:45 Jos=E9 Ignacio Rodr=EDguez Fern=E1ndez wrote:
> Hello again, i mean with custom tiles like make for
> every thing in nethack (Slash'em) a different graphic.
> A possibility to make it. :)

I'm not sure that I follow that, but let me explain what a
tileset is and you can decide if this meets your requirements.

Each monster and each object and some other things like
walls and doors etc. are assigned a tile number by both
NetHack and Slash'EM (although the numbers differ between
the two because each added monster shifts the tile numbers
of all tiles that come after it by one).

A 2D tileset is a collection of rectanglar bitmaps arranged
in the same sequence as the tile numbers that the particular
game in question is using. This means that when a window
interface wants to display the tile for a giant ant it gets
tile 0 out of the tileset and displays it on the screen.

Thus it is possible to create a new tileset that has different
bitmaps of possibly different sizes for each of the monsters,
objects etc. which have a tile number assigned to them. It is
not possible to create new tiles for things that don't have
a tile number. For example, standard tilesets don't allow you
to create different tiles for the corpses of different monsters
since they all share the same tile number.

The situation gets more complex in Slash'EM where 3D tilesets
and transparent tilesets are supported and where the proxy
windowing interface is used, but I don't think you need to
worry about that.

> can slash'em use an arbitary tile set?

As described above, yes.

>  What do you think about noeGNUd? And Falcon Eye?

I haven't used them myself, but I think it's great that NetHack
and Slash'EM are being made available to a wider audience.

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