Re: [Rails-devel] 18Kaas

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

On 7/5/06, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:
> While I'm working to fix the worst bugs in 1830,
> I'm hoping to keep the audience happy by publishing
> 18Kaas, a true 1830 clone on a different map.
> It has 4 new tiles (1 preprinted and 3 real ones).
>

Sounds good to me.  I was going to look into some of the UI bugs as
soon as I have some spare time.

> These tiles have no "official" numbers yet, and as
> TileDesigner does not accept the alphanumeric ids
> used at Blackwater Station (Ka1 etc), I have
> assigned temporary numbers above 9000.
> These tiles are 9121 (green B+), 9220 (brown U) and 9997 (brown B+),
> the last 3 digits referring to the most resembling "official" tiles.
> The preprinted tile (NY with different tracks) has got number -22.
>

Works for me.

> Once there is a consensus on what the real numbers should be,
> we can of course adapt to that.
> Or use a tile creation product that can handle alpha ids.
>

If there's a tile creation product that can do that AND output
directly to SVG (or any other vector-based format, really), I would
love to see it.


One thing I neglected to mention that I added to the code immediately
prior to releasing 1.0 was some fallback code that I inserted into
ImageLoader. Basically, if we can't find the SVG files, it falls back
to using the GIFs.  This works around the problem I'm currently
having, which is that outside of the JAR, SVG works just fine, but
inside the JAR the SVG files can't be found for some reason that I
haven't been able to track down yet.

On the whole, I think having this fallback is a necessary evil until
we are able to improve upon the tile drawing.


---Brett.