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For those who like tiles and have tried Un or FA with double and triple size tile support, here is a windows port of latest Vanilla with that support added (and a lot of other files you can ignore, because I was too lazy to remove them). Comments encouraged.
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www.mediafire.com/buzzkill - Get your 32x32 tiles here. UT32 now compatible Ironband and Quickband 9/6/2012.
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Cool. Am I being stupid or does github not record which commit it was built from? I guess if the zipfile is built locally and uploaded it can't necessarily tell, but it would be handy if we (that's all of us, not the royal we) could get into the habit of noting this somewhere.
I'm loving the fact that there is so much activity on github, but not looking forward to trying to synthesise much of it into a new version ..."Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The BeatlesComment
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I'll whack that support into the SDL version when I get around to tidying and rearranging the SDL frontend code. (probably in the new year, when I have time and this support is added to the main angband source, and there's no reason why it shouldn't)
On a slightly related point, I was looking at ticket #230 and was wondering whether you could go further and have a window for the top message line as well, meaning you could set the tile size to whatever you want. Probably a lot of work though since that top line is hard coded by getcom() and more...
Having the main term window only display graphics has a few other advantages for more elaborate displays:
An isometric view would involve little to no code changes to the main code, since the frontend would just tell angband that the term size was 256x256 or whatever max dungeon size is, and all updates get sent to the frontend.
I've always had in the back of my mind an OpenGL version which would be, well, interesting....
This combined with transparent subwindows which can be displayed on top of the main display could bring a much more modern look to angband.
Maybe it's all a bit 'pie in the sky', but certainly food for thought...
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I've already got it in the SDL port in my fork - main-sdl.c is one of the easier ones to deal with
I have thought along these lines before too - and I have a feeling that a map-only main window is actually implemented in Un.On a slightly related point, I was looking at ticket #230 and was wondering whether you could go further and have a window for the top message line as well, meaning you could set the tile size to whatever you want. Probably a lot of work though since that top line is hard coded by getcom() and more...
Having the main term window only display graphics has a few other advantages for more elaborate displays:
An isometric view would involve little to no code changes to the main code, since the frontend would just tell angband that the term size was 256x256 or whatever max dungeon size is, and all updates get sent to the frontend.
I've always had in the back of my mind an OpenGL version which would be, well, interesting....
The NDS port has transparent overlay buttons. Transparent subwindows (menus, for example) would be great. Another thing I'd like to see is port-specific mouse buttons - so far they only exist in Psi's WinCE port of FA, but I'm thinking of trying to add them in a couple more places.This combined with transparent subwindows which can be displayed on top of the main display could bring a much more modern look to angband.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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Latest progress on my fork is extended character support - windows port is here. Note that the fonts have completely changed, too (of necessity, as the old ones didn't have the extended characters). Note also that the file is labeled with the commit (for those who care).
Edit: Don't download yet - it doesn't work. I'll be back.
Edit2:OK, should work now. And here's a picture:
Last edited by Nick; October 30, 2010, 13:14.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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@Nick: I've just been looking at that double/triple tile stuff, and all those nested if-statements and checks for instances of one or the other or both and/or bigtile or....
A classic case of bolting one thing on after another...
Maybe you could ditch the big/double/triple tile thing and have two variables 'tile_width' & 'tile_height' which would simply store the size of a graphical tile in chars.
To achieve the look of the screenshot above set tile_width to 3, and tile_height to 2.
It would, I'm sure, reduce most of those if-statements to dust, and if someone wants quad, quin or even sex, well they can have it!
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OK, improved windows port with extended versions of some of the standard windows fonts.
Here's a picture with the 9x15 font, and using special glyphs for traps, doors and walls:
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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This is probably quite feasible - although I suspect that the "Nice Graphics" option in windows depends more strongly on the current impementation than the SDL port does. UnAndrew?
While we're on the topic of SDL, I noticed recently that it claims Windows CE as one of its platforms. Do you know anything about this? The reason why there Psi's excellent WinCE port of FA has not come to Vanilla is that it is based on the current V WCE port, and we have been unable to contact him. So getting in via SDL seems like an option.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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