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Re: Isometric images, sattelite images, and rotation
- From: Elijah Meeks <elijahmeeks at yahoo dot com>
- To: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>, mskala at ansuz dot sooke dot bc dot ca
- Cc: xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com, xconq-hackers at lists dot sourceforge dot net
- Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 18:24:07 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Isometric images, sattelite images, and rotation
>
> Unfortunately our CVS repo is already burdened with
> lots of images. I
> would be loathe to increase checkout or update times
> any more than
> absolutely necessary. (We can probably win back much
> space in the repo
> and in the file releases, if we go from GIF to PNG,
> since PNG generally
> achieves better compression.)
>
> While I agree that having a stock of 6 different
> isometric images, plus
> an overhead one, might be ideal, I think it places a
> large space burden
> on the Xconq project, and another burden on
> designers of terrain tiles.
> If we can avoid making this a requirement, I think
> we would be better off.
>
Can't we default to the current system (setting it up
so that if there are terrain images called that don't
exist, that it defaults to the single view) and then
have a seperate Isometric Patch in the patch section?
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