Re: [Rails-devel] A question or two about the Rails XML interface.

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Modifying existing TileDesigner-created tiles works best.  Please remember:

# Notes on creating new tiles:
(...)
# 3. If tiles are modified with Inkscape, before saving, set the following
properties
#    via File|DocumentProperties:
#    - First press 'Fit page to selection'. This should change the size to
#      Width=393.00 and Height=341.00.
#    - To add the extra whitespace below the tile image that TileDesigner
also adds
#      (for unknown reasons), change the Height to 357.50.
#    - Then save the tile.

Erik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Frey [mailto:ste...@we...]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:34 PM
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] A question or two about the Rails XML
interface.
> 
> Converting from bitmap to a vector graphic unfortunately hardly exceeds,
> however for simple graphs (like our tiles) there should be working
> algorithms.
> 
> I prefer creating a SVG in two ways:
> A) Edit the SVG file directly. Actually the tile designer svg files are
not that
> difficult to understand after one adds newlines to separate the XML
> elements.
> B) Use Inkscape which is an opensource vector graphics program which uses
> SVG.
> Most often I combine A) and B).
> 
> I can create the mine tiles if you like, but be warned I am not an artist
at all.
> I would simply paste the mine symbol from wikipedia
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Mining_symbol.svg
> onto the tiles.
> 
> Stefan
> 
> On 05/13/2012 12:56 AM, Erik Vos wrote:
> > Is anyone able to convert .gif to .svg?
> > See below for some requirements that include the required SVG size
> > (copied from CombineTiles.pl as mentioned in my previous reply).
> >
> > Once that has been done, we can use the .svg equivalents in the
displays.
> > Internally we still need standard TileDesigner equivalents, for which
> > we can use existing standard off-map city or town tiles (or perhaps we
> > need new ones, with stop type "mine" or such).
> >
> > # Notes on creating new tiles:
> > # 1. In TileDesigner, export SVG tiles with size=170 and filename
> > template=tile<c0>.
> > #    Do this with ID checked into directory tiles/TDwithID, and again
> > #    with ID unchecked into directory tiles/TDwoID.
> > # 2. If the saved tiles turn out to invisible, use program
> > FixInvisibility.pl
> > #    to remove superfluous strings ' xmlns=""'. It is unknown why
> > TileDesigner
> > #    sometimes includes this string in the path tags.
> > # 3. If tiles are modified with Inkscape, before saving, set the
> > following properties
> > #    via File|DocumentProperties:
> > #    - First press 'Fit page to selection'. This should change the size
to
> > #      Width=393.00 and Height=341.00.
> > #    - To add the extra whitespace below the tile image that
TileDesigner
> > also adds
> > #      (for unknown reasons), change the Height to 357.50.
> > #    - Then save the tile.
> > # 4. Use this program to combine tiles from the following directories
> > into
> > tiles/svg:
> > #    - From tiles/TDwithID: all tiles with an ID>  0 (not preprinted
tiles).
> > #      These images have the id on the tile.
> > #    - From tiles/TDwoID: all tiles with an ID<= 0 (preprinted tiles).
> > #      These images do not have the ID on the tile (create these
separately
> > from TD).
> > #    - From tiles/handmade: all tiles in that dir will overwrite any of
the
> > above.
> > #      These are the tiles modified by hand or with Inkscape.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: John David Galt [mailto:jd...@di...]
> >> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 12:14 AM
> >> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> >> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] A question or two about the Rails XML
> > interface.
> >>
> >> Here are the three "mine tiles", in the two sizes of .gif that
> >> 18xx.net
> > uses.
> >> I've left off the names and the values for the "offboard run" in the
> >> hope
> > that
> >> Rails can generate those dynamically.
> >>
> >> If some other format would work better, I'll see if I can create it.
> >> Let
> > me
> >> know.
> >
> >
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