Re: [Rails-devel] Tiles

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

Very nice - looking forward to seeing the new graphical presentation in the
next release.

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On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:

> I have committed code and a set of new SVG tile images to
> fix a number of issues with tile production and display.
> (BTW part of the tiles didn't get through yet,
> that will be sorted out a.s.a.p.).
>
> The Map now looks better, and is fully zoomable (except
> for the preprinted company homes, but that will follow).
> Support for GIF tile images has been removed.
> They did look very ugly when I retried, and Brett and I
> found no reason to retain support for GIF.
>
> There is one more change that I found necessary, but
> that can cause problems when loading old save files.
> The orientation of tile #4 has been changed to make the
> 'dit' show up perpendicular to the track. This causes
> this tile be displayed in a wrong orientation when
> loading an old save file. Sorry for that, but there is no
> easy way to fix this.
>
> The main reason for producing new tile images was the
> fact that the tile ID and the revenue were displayed
> way too small.
> Th revenue is now just about readable without zooming in,
> and well readable after zooming in 1 or 2 steps.
> For the ID more zooming is needed.
>
> The preprinted tiles no longer show an ID.
>
> Included in the update are two Perl scripts that I wrote today
> to get an SVG problem fixed and to prepare the final set.
> The script CombineTiles.pl contains extensive instructions
> on how to produce tiles that will be correctly displayed by Rails.
>
> In any case I'm now able to quickly produce new tiles
> when needed.
>
> Erik.
>
>
>
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