Re: [Rails-devel] 18EU: Background Map submission (revised version)

[Phil D. <de...@gm...>]

The backgrounds are always going to be game specific so storing them
underneath the game directory makes sense I think

Phil

On 6 June 2011 11:10, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Thanks.  I tried it, and if it works, it works well.  But I'm getting
> frequent crashes, so it's again a mixed success.
>
> I like your approach to hex highlighting, and will keep it in mind.  As you
> will see in another mail, I'm already having good results with the Batik
> JSVGCanvas approach, and will certainly pursue that further.  I'm not sure
> if it will turn out to be easy to incorporate tile drawing into that canvas
> too; if not, I might just copy your red hexagon code for the time being.
>
> I'm doubting where to put such maps. I created a separate <svnroot>/maps
> tree, whereas you have put it into <svnroot>/data/18EU.  Perhaps the latter
> makes more sense.
>
> Erik.
>
>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: Bill Rosgen [mailto:ro...@gm...]
>> Verzonden: maandag 6 juni 2011 8:30
>> Aan: Erik Vos
>> Onderwerp: Re: [Rails-devel] 18EU: Background Map submission (revised
>> version)
>>
>> Erik,
>>
>> Here are the full text versions of the files I changed.  I didn't
> implement much
>> more than just drawing the map.  There is a little progress towards
> changing
>> the interface to make it work better with a SVG map, but it still needed
> some
>> work.  In particular, the goal was to avoid drawing a red and then white
>> hexagon to highlight a tile (and then cover this with a tile), since it
> seemed
>> both costly and annoying to try to redraw a hexagonal portion of the base
>> map.
>>
>> Essentially I just created a new class GUIMapImage that parrots the code
> in
>> GUITile used to draw tiles (and put a new class in ImageLoader to handle
>> loading the map file).  I also had to make some (minor) changes to HexMap
>> and the other classes to draw the map, but nothing really exciting.  This
> code
>> is also still full of magic numbers and hardcoded strings, as I hadn't
> gotten to
>> implementing any of this in the XML (i.e. path to the map file, the scale,
> and x
>> and y offsets for the map).
>>
>> I don't imagine that there is that much of interest in these files, but
> now you
>> have them.  I agree with the suggestion of handing off more of the image
>> processing to libraries, but haven't looked into it at all.
>>
>> The files included in this tarball are:
>>
>> rails/ui/swing/ImageLoader.java
>>
>> rails/ui/swing/hexmap/GUIHex.java
>> rails/ui/swing/hexmap/GUIMapImage.java
>> rails/ui/swing/hexmap/GUITile.java
>> rails/ui/swing/hexmap/HexMap.java
>>
>> data/18EU/MapImage.svg
>>
>> Bill
>
>
>
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