Re: [Rails-devel] Mine svg tiles for 1837 (was: A question or two about the Rails XML interface.)

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Erik:
I have attached a template for 37001 tile that allows to edit and modify 
the position of the mine symbol easily:

Simply modify the tile in a text editor and then check the changes by 
reloading in a graphic/browser program.

The mining symbol is a svg of its own and included as a group into the
tile. Then you can adjust the defined transformations like translate, 
rotate and scale (Every operation uses the left upper corner as reference).

<g transform="translate(195,190)rotate(45)scale(0.15)">

You can also replace the mining symbol by one you like better by simply 
replacing the svg code inside the g element.
See other file versions here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mining_symbol.svg

Stefan


On 05/15/2012 01:17 PM, Erik Vos wrote:
> 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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