Re: [palito-dev] new user. some questions... some answers.

[Alan Bort]

the graphics problem, the portability I mean, could be solved with a
simple clinet/daemon-like software.... You know, having the same engine
for all platforms, and  having a small client to handle the graphics...
There you could add the DX for windows and GTK for GNU/Linux... or any
other standard library... (I don¿t know the active graphics library of
Linux... but I think ther is openGL support...)


El mar, 08-07-2003 a las 01:26, Tom Barnes-Lawrence escribió:
> Hi Alan,
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:13:15PM -0400, Alan Bort wrote:
> 
> > willing to help with the developmente of palito in any way I can. About
> > the graphics... well, I think that if you use DirectX or similar on
> > other OS's you could simply extract the graphics from the Totala's packs
> > and use them... I think they are not copyrighted...
> 
> I'm not really one of the developers here, but I thought I ought to
> make a couple of points on this:
> 
> -You do realise that Palito isn't meant to be an actual *clone* of Total
>  Annihilation, right?
> 
> -AFAICT, the engine is supposed to be mostly like Totala, but not exactly
>  the same. But the default units aren't supposed to be the same at all.
>  As the units aren't hardcoded, they could be changed to make it play
>  like Totala, but that'd be as an *alternative* set of units.
> 
> -DirectX is only for windows, and to have different graphics for each
>  platform would be pretty bad. Plus, I don't think extracting Totala's
>  graphics would be as easy as you make out.
> 
> -Some of the units may have been freely downloadable, but I'll bet
>  they're still copyrighted anyway.
> 
>  Besides that, I personally quite like Palito's "Flush" driven graphics.
> They're quite neat, in a way, even though that library still needs a
> bit of work. But right now, Barrett says he's reworking the game to
> support client-server networking, which I think is prolly the most
> important step right now!
> 
>  Tomble
> 
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