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July 19th, 2008, 12:38 PM
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Re: Creating a fake map image file
Bugger. Looks like you're right Gandalf.
Hmm, I think that's game over for that plan. What a shame.
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July 19th, 2008, 12:39 PM
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Re: Creating a fake map image file
/me gives llama a hug and an A for effort
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July 19th, 2008, 12:48 PM
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Re: Creating a fake map image file
You might offer a number of different well-chosen maps from the various map generators, and support players creating their own .map files to go with them. Thats the only thing I can think of.
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July 19th, 2008, 01:15 PM
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Re: Creating a fake map image file
 Thanks Aezeal!
Gandalf - yeah, I think that's the best plan really. Maybe down the line I could allow upload of whole map images, but there's the potential for problems there. Not least is the fact that the LlamaServer's web server is provided by a volunteer student group, so I want to leave as small a bandwidth footprint on it as possible. |
July 19th, 2008, 02:29 PM
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Re: Creating a fake map image file
Try this llamabeast:
Create a cross-platform program that your users can download (or run from a browser) that will change every pixel to black except for the pure white province markers. Then have them upload the resulting image.
I have attached a "minimized" version of the silent seas map image. The file size goes from 2787 KB to 50 KB. If you are able to automate zip file decompression as well, have the user or your distributed application zip the resulting "minimized" image and it will squeeze down to 2 KB.
I have not tested the map image in game yet, but I see no reason why it should not work. I have attached it to this post for anyone who wants to try it out.
Hope this helps!
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July 20th, 2008, 05:17 AM
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Re: Creating a fake map image file
Ha, that is a very cool idea Ballbarian! I may very well end up using that.
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July 20th, 2008, 04:29 PM
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Re: Creating a fake map image file
Hmmmm I was working on a command-line to the fantastic ImageMagick tools to do that. Or maybe a ghost-script to GIMP.
The purpose was actually to turn a map into one with just borders and pixels that could be used as an online view to have the national colors automatically filled into the provinces to show game progression. But I can see a use here also.
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