Re: [Rails-devel] New Tiles Request

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

I have added TD versions of these new tiles to the repository, including
their main purpose: a version of Tiles.xml that includes these tiles.

 

If you want you could use the .svg versions of these tiles as a basis for
your beautification work.

 

I have chosen the following tile numbers:

ax.svg: -1911/2/3

bx.svg: -1921/2/3

portx.svg: -4001/2/2

 

I'll now start looking at your 18VA XML, and will check if (after updating
Map.xml and TileSet.xml, and generating Tiles.xml) anything shows up.

 

Erik.

 

Van: Erik Vos [mailto:eri...@xs...] 
Verzonden: maandag 14 maart 2011 11:54
Aan: 'Development list for Rails: an 18xx game'
Onderwerp: RE: [Rails-devel] New Tiles Request

 

Scott,

 

See the attached screen shot fragment that shows how your single-port tile
ends up in 18EU.  Apparently it doesn't have the right size.

 

Best advice I can give to create a new tile that can't be done with
TileDesigner, is to start with an existing Rails tile (or create a close
lookalike in TD), and then modify the SVG by hand or by some other program,
taking care that the tile and image* sizes are not changed in any way. 

 

For such special tiles, an equivalent in TD must be made anyway, to form the
basis for creating Tiles.xml. If you compare the TD version of tile -901,
and the version that is actually displayed, you'll see that these are
different. I can do the TD version for you.

 

* The image is larger than the tile. That is a workaround for a TileDesigner
bug, which cannot save a good tile image otherwise. 

 

Erik.

 

Van: Scott Petersen [mailto:sc...@re...] 
Verzonden: zondag 13 maart 2011 8:22
Aan: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
Onderwerp: [Rails-devel] New Tiles Request

 

In working through the XML files for 18VA and my prototype, I ran into the
need for a few tiles (svgs are attached).

*	tile-911.svg: Single red offboard city with one full
connection--this looks like the probable name, 912 and 913 already exist.
*	a1.svg-a3.svg: Single red offboard city with 1-3 triangular
connections (18VA uses the one connection tile, but I'm sure the two
connection one is used elsewhere, the three connection one is included for
good measure, but not immediately needed).
*	b1.svg-b3.svg: Double red offboard city with 1-3 triangular
connections (18VA uses the one and two connection tiles).
*	port1.svg-port3.svg: A different color (blue) off-map city.  18EU
uses ports, but they always count as 10 value dot-towns, so the -800 tile is
okay.  18VA has variable values for the ports so the -800 tile will not
work.