Re: Major Game Upgrade + New Images: Specula is now Opal 2.0

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

Hans Ronne wrote:

> > Note to game designers:
> >  Elijah has also been industriously working on importing a grpahical
> > image set for Angband into Xconq recently. I have checked in the first
> > part of his endeavors. The available images are listed in
> > 'lib/angband.imf'; I have refrained from adding the images to the
> > 'lib/imf.dir', since the problems with Imfapp have not yet been sorted out. 
>
> I will check an improved IMFApp soon, that works better on all platforms.

Good.

> But I am not sure that we should continue to keep all images in one imf.dir
> even if IMFApp can handle it. The only point of having it is that you don't
> need to include the relevant *.imf files in the game file,

Right. And that is quite convenient, wouldn't you agree? Why get rid of it?

> but many game
> files do that anyway.

This comes at the expense of having to rummage through each ".imf" file 
separately. Having a catalog of all images in one location (which can be 
browsed with Imfapp) is more useful, IMO.

Eric