RE: [Rails-devel] Re: SVG Tiles

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

Great!
One thing: you have checked in the tiles, but apparently not the loading
code.
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> Ok...  I've committed a working SVG tileset and changed ImageLoader to
> load from the SVG images instead of the GIFs.
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> 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.
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> Also, I committed another SVG test application that shows an example
> of loading the SVG to an off-screen buffer.
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> 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.
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> ---Brett.
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> On 5/25/06, brett lentz <wak...@gm...> wrote:
> > Over the last couple days I've been scouring the web to=20
> find some way
> > of converting the tiles generated by TileDesigner into the=20
> 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=20
> modifying the code
> > to use the Batik library to display the SVG tiles instead of those
> > ugly GIFs.
> >
> > ---Brett.
> >
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