Help with tilesets

[Persius]

Hi,

Firstly thanks for Freeciv, takes me back to civ 1 on the amiga.

and my problem,

Im using freeciv on win2k with the cygwin, as per the tutorial. How do i make it use another tileset though? I add the --tiles data/hires to the "start civclient.exe" in the "startxwin.bat". This still uses the original tiles. how do I change them

Thanks

[CapTVK]

Have you tried Andreas Kemenade's most recent windows version? I had similar problems with an earlier version but it seems to work fine now (at least with win98). I don't even to set paths and that sort of thing anymore.

Check the Apolyton alt. civs. news column for the link.


Hope this helps

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by Persius

Im using freeciv on win2k with the cygwin, as per the tutorial. How do i make it use another tileset though? I add the --tiles data/hires to the "start civclient.exe" in the "startxwin.bat". This still uses the original tiles. how do I change them

Thanks


P.S

I simply type " civclient --tiles trident" with the windows version to choose another tileset.

[Persius]

Thanks for the replies, but i would just like to know how to change the tiles on the xwindow version.

:)

[MacHatter]

Persius, I think the command you want to use is --tiles hires. The reason is the tilesets are all referenced relative to the data directory. (At least that's my understanding from a scan through the code)

However, Hires is an isometric tileset (actually the default isometric tileset). If your version of the client can't handle isometric graphics, you won't be able to use it.

Andy

[Persius]

MacHatter,

Ahh, i see now, thanks for the help. :)

[Sava]

Does anybody have any tilesets that look good? Anything that is close to the quality of Test of Time?

[MacHatter]

Someone had made a group of comparative screenshots and posted the URL on the freeciv-dev mailing list, but I couldn't find it in the archives. Probably I searched on the wrong keywords. If you want to download tilesets that aren't part of the main distrbutions, look here (http://www.freeciv.org/download.phtml). The tilesets are about in the middle of the page.

[Sava]

I wonder if the Civ 3 format Unit Graphics could be translated into the freeciv code.

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by Sava
I wonder if the Civ 3 format Unit Graphics could be translated into the freeciv code.


Apart from tackling the special animation format that's used there's also the copyright issue. Freeciv will only use material that's public domain or GPL'ed. You can use the graphics if you own the original though (e.a Civ2 graphics can be imported into Freeciv), but seeing the EULA's and copyright issues surrounding Civ3 even that might present problems in the future.


Open source efforts cannot afford lawsuits...:ban:

[Straybow]

Uuuh, what is this .gz file format for tilesets on the Freeciv.org download page?

[St Leo]

WinZip can open both *.gz and *.tar.

[Straybow]

Hmmmm, I'll have to see if NetZIP understands gz and tar after I get home.