Re: [crossfire] Face overlays
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 -- Mon p'tit coin du web - http://nicolas.weeger.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
Re: [crossfire] Monster regeneration
Sounds good to me. Changed in sources. Regards Nicolas -- Mon p'tit coin du web - http://nicolas.weeger.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
Re: [crossfire] Face overlays
On 07/14/11 06:35 AM, Nicolas Weeger wrote: 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. Ah - so it sounds like you are looking at one of these 2 possibilites: 1) Server sends all needed faces for the player - this means that for a player, it may have to send 4+ images for the player (aura, armor, weapon, base image) - of course, this could be higher. 2) Server generates a composite face, sends information on what that composite face is, and thus only needs to send 1 face in the protocol command, but it may end up sending a bunch of other information for to tell the server what that composite face is. My gut instinct is that #2 would actually be easier. For #1, I think it may require potentially more protocol changes (there may be issues with number of layers, so some extension for that, and the map send code would have to look at the object and see if that given object has overlays that need to get sent, look those up) - I'm just not sure how efficient that would be. In case #2, all the map logic is basically unchanged (note that some extra logic would be needed to send non layered face information for old clients) - the generation of the composite face can all be done when the player equips the items/does those actions. But I guess it really depends on how hard it is to check the layered faces for an object, or maybe additional structures are needed to hold those. I'm just thinking that in a more generic usage, one might want to use overlays for monsters (I'm thinking more for auras and not armor/equipment), so probably good to make sure a solution is chosen that works for everything, not just players. ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
Re: [crossfire] Compressed file support
On 07/14/11 07:34 AM, Nicolas Weeger wrote: Hello. Unless someone is totally against, I'd like to remove support for compressed files (through open_and_uncompress_file() and friends). I don't see the use of that feature, to be honest :) (which AFAIK never was used) Sounds good to me. That is something that was leftover from days distant pass where the amount of space used by those files might be a concern. But that probably hasn't been the case for 10+ years. ___ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
