> But is the client assembling these images, or have all these images been > pre-assembled on the server (and thus, they are valid images)?
That's one my questions, and something I'm asking other people for opinion :)
Two options, server sends all needed faces at the same time ("overlays to the
player face") ; or server sends a special face the client knows to be a
combination of faces.
> If the client is left to do this layering, then somehow, it needs to know
> what faces to layer for any given object (typically players, but one could
> see reason to add this to monsters).
Overlays will be attached to a face in the map2 command, so a specific layer.
> From my reading, which could be wrong, it sounds like the server would
> have these composite images - thus, the server itself would have a lot
> more images, but really no change in the protocol is needed - the server
> would just know to use different faces and send those to the client, which
> would just display it.
That's what I'm thinking about. Server has all images, and looks for correct
animations.
> For a small number of combinations, that works pretty well. But if you
> start to have multiple things you may layer, the combinations multiply up
> pretty fast. For example, weapon + armor + aura could be hundreds of new
> images (say 5 weapons, 5 armors, and 5 auras = 125). These would all have
> to either be images in the arch directory tree, or created during the
> collect process.
Err no, I see it as 5 weapons, 5 armors, and 5 auras. And they get stacked to
produce the final picture.
Regards
Nicolas
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