Topic: many ideas
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ixprefect
Joined: 2009-02-27, 13:28
Posts: 367  Tribe Member |
Posted at: 2013-03-05, 13:22
Perhaps you could open a bug report/wishlist item for these, particularly for the crash when opening network games? They all seem reasonable to me - though the buildhelp icons are obviously a matter of opinion, and I recall that there have already been very long discussions about them. I don't think people will return to the dots, and making it an option is a big no-no. (Though you are obviously free to replace the images in your local installation - they're just .pngs, after all). Edit: Also, please just open a new thread next time instead of resurrecting an old thread like that. Edited: 2013-03-05, 13:43
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Nasenbaer
Joined: 2009-02-21, 17:17
Posts: 828  One Elder of Players Location: Germany |
Posted at: 2013-03-05, 18:15
hi, concerning the "start during savegame transfer problem" - that one is already fixed in current development version. ... just my 2 ¢
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teppo
Joined: 2012-01-30, 08:42
Posts: 423 Tribe Member |
Posted at: 2013-03-05, 19:02
ixquick, Why a no-no? I understand that the current build help are more impressive and intuitive for a beginner, but the dots are more handy later on, and many people do not have the mindset of changing games themselves. Playable GPL games are rare. Replacing the png's is nowadays very easy. I remember reading discussion about a "turbo-load" or whatever, where one of the suggested methods to speed up load time was packing the images into a large collection. That would be a pity from my point of view, as I already have some custom graphics in use. Are there still such plans? Nasenbaer, thanks for the comments. The automatic placement would be nice when a network game is player in many small time chunks. Hardly mainstream.
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SirVer
Joined: 2009-02-19, 14:18
Posts: 1445 One Elder of Players Location: Germany - Munich |
Posted at: 2013-03-05, 20:30
option are a no-no because they introduce rarely executed code paths which might contain bugs that we rarely see and which are therefore hard to fix. What I mean is that we do not have the man power to support many options in the code. And yes, we have plans to pack graphics for quicker loading - in fact this is already implemented and I will propose it for merging soonish. I am sorry that we destroy a user story for you here, but the common good is a higher value here
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teppo
Joined: 2012-01-30, 08:42
Posts: 423 Tribe Member |
Posted at: 2013-03-08, 06:57
What I had in mind is that the tooltips button/key would rotate between off-buildings-dots-off, instead of toggling between buildings and no buildings. Ideally that should not introduce rarely-executed code branches. SirVer: Do you have an URL to this turboload thing? Did you use a pre-existing container or make your own? (read: Are there already tools to manipulate the archive or not?)
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SirVer
Joined: 2009-02-19, 14:18
Posts: 1445 One Elder of Players Location: Germany - Munich |
Posted at: 2013-03-09, 19:36
teppo: here you go: https://code.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/widelands/spritemaps. A final 'compressed' image is for example here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/widelands/spritemaps/download/head:/headquarters.png-20130224191117-ligjp9091cm5dqp1-1/headquarters.png. Edited: 2013-03-09, 19:36
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And concering the automatic placing of players: this could be quite easily implemented for players who connect to an open game in which a saved game is set up. However that would be the only place such a feature would be nice, as players that are already connected should not be forced to change their positions everytime a new saved game is selected.