Re: [Rails-devel] Tiles.xml, TileSet.xml, and svg files

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

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
>
> 3. Where do Tiles.xml and the SVG files come from?
> Ultimately everything comes from a tile database named TileDesigner.18t
> created by Marco Rocci's TileDesigner program (see
> http://www.rails18xx.it/software.html). In the mean time I have added a lot
> of tiles to Marco's original tile set. From that database I export both the
> SVG tiles and an XML descriptive file called TileDesigner.xml.
>
> The SVG export is somewhat buggy. Originally Brett fixed that by a procedure
> that I don't have the details of. I have recently taken over and I'm now
> using a procedure described in the comments of a Perl script named
> CombineTiles.pl. That script builds the Rails SVG file set by combining
> parts from three sets of SVG files:
>
> Erik
>

There really aren't many details to give.  I used Inkscape to
hand-edit the tiles to the dimensions we needed, which was not fun.

Having a script do the direct conversion is a much better solution.

To be honest, I'm not really sure why I never scripted it out myself.


---Brett.