Re: [Adonthell-devel] gfx update

[Kai Sterker]

On 4/7/06, Tyler Nielsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Everyone,
>
>  I commited code that saves and loads pngs... If anyone gets a chance try 
> running gfxtest.py now.

Works smooth :-). However, there might be a problem with endianess.
The color of the rendered item is somewhat different than the actual
png. I'll have a look at it, so don't worry.


> Also, PNG files support
> per pixel alpha.  Right now I ignore it, but I can add support for it if
> Adonthell can benefit from it.  Any consensus here?

I agree with Andrew here. Might be useful for spell effects.


I had a few thought's on graphic loading in general. We'll probably
have some objects that are composed of several png's, so they'll come
with a description in xml format. But many will come as a single file,
so we shouldn't require any additional xml files for them. So I would
suggest a object loading mechanism that gets a filename without
extension and first tries to load an xml file of that name, and if
there isn't one, falls back to the png plain. Guess this functionality
could go into our gfx cache.

Kai