[Rails-devel] Re: SVG Tiles

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

Ok...  I've committed a working SVG tileset and changed ImageLoader to
load from the SVG images instead of the GIFs.

Right now the loading is done using a bit of a hack, but it works.
I'll look at improving upon it a little later.

Also, I committed another SVG test application that shows an example
of loading the SVG to an off-screen buffer.

In the future, I think this might be a good way of handling loading
the SVG graphics asynchronously, which ought to reduce some of the
load times when starting up a game.


---Brett.


On 5/25/06, brett lentz <wak...@gm...> wrote:
> Over the last couple days I've been scouring the web to find some way
> of converting the tiles generated by TileDesigner into the SVG format.
>
> As we discussed many months ago, TileDesigner's abilty to export to
> SVG is broken and unusable.
>
> So...  I've been able to export the tiles in PostScript (ps) format,
> and use a utility called pstoedit to convert them to SVG.
>
> Unfortunately, pstoedit adds a few things to the image that requires
> further adjustments.
>
> Doubly unfortunate is that I haven't found a way to automate these
> adjustments. Which means that I'll have to manually tweak each and
> every one of the 460-some tiles.
>
> However, once this is done, I can start looking at modifying the code
> to use the Batik library to display the SVG tiles instead of those
> ugly GIFs.
>
> ---Brett.
>