Re: [Rails-devel] 18EU Tile number overlaps

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Erik Vos wrote:

> I haven't seen yet what you have sent, John.
> Was it a complete tile set for all games that you have covered,
> or a subset for 18EU?

I posted it here a couple of weeks ago -- I think it was just the EU 
special tiles.

> We should somehow agree on a common numbering and XML format.
> The overall tiles/Tiles.xml has been created from Marco's TileDesigner file,
> extended by me, by a conversion utility.

I am not sure there are common interests.  I took the TileDesigner format 
and extended it for my needs, and then I have a database schema where the 
authoritive data is kept which also has a lot more detail about rendering. 
Initially the detailed layout data was automatically generated from 
code derived from TileDesigner, then I could manually tweak it if needed 
(and there is a flag saying if it was automatically generated so it can be 
regenerated if I improve the layout code).

Since Rails doesn't render the tiles from the tile data, it seems like 
most of that data is useless to Rails.  Also, I currently do not keep 
information useful for route calculations which Rails will eventually 
need, although I wouldn't be averse to extended it and storing it as well. 
Finally, I am more concerned with a unified database of all tiles so I can 
search for which games contain which tiles etc while Rails doesn't care 
for such a database (at least that is my recollection of a discussion 
about this a couple of years ago).

XML is not a particularly good format for storing the data, but it is good 
for information interchange.  I would be willing to write import/export 
code from my database to some common XML format if it seems useful.  I 
have extended TileDesigner data for every game I produce and most of the 
others (and I imported connectivity data from ps18xx tiles, but many of 
them have poor layout data).

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