Re: [Bontz-team] graphic files

[Owen Swerkstrom]

'k, so going back to my question, what do you think is
going to be cleanest to deal with in terms of
characters, background tiles, text menu elements, etc?
 file-per-frame sprites and grid-of-images tiles? 
grids of everything?  separate files of everything
except text/menu stuff?


--- Chuck <address@hidden> wrote:
> just so you know i am working on stuff, but it will
> be a while before you
> see any progress...i am currently in the process of
> retrieving a lot of the
> older work i did.  such as the mucka side
> scroller...and some of the walking
> demos.  i had also at one time started work on a
> memory manager, and i will
> see if i can use that as a starting point.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Owen Swerkstrom" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 10:26 AM
> Subject: [Bontz-team] graphic files
> 
> 
> > So far with the sprites etc I've had one image per
> > file.  Should we do that with tiles, objects, and
> > other elements as well?  I'm (re-)doing some text
> > window elements now, and I wonder whether there
> ought
> > to be one file that contains all
> > letters/numbers/window corners/etc or a ton of
> smaller
> > files?
> >
> > Also with the little path tileset I started on, I
> > named files in a way that sort of makes sense to
> me
> > but not be as nice to handle programming-wise... 
> File
> > managers these days preview stuff so if you think
> > outdoor_0001.png etc is better that could work
> too.
> > Alternately a config file could map an "english"
> > filename (outdoor/grass.png) to an internal
> tile0028
> > handler or something...
> >
> > Doesn't affect me much right now, it's trivial to
> > rename/chop up/splice together files I have made
> up to
> > this point, but we should figure out how we want
> to
> > handle this before I start churning out masses of
> stuff.
> >
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