🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Oct 22, 2008 03:45 PM EDT:
It seems that you have an application / need for the extra colors because
you are not just displaying the piece symbols, but are actualy trying to
create a realistic image of the game as it would be played with physical
pieces.
Personally I don't think this is very desirable; I would prefer to play
Shogi without th pentagonal outlines and Xiangqi without the circles.
We each have our preferences. In general, your program will appeal to a broader base when it can accommodate more preferences than just your own. For example, Game Courier uses some graphics I don't like and supports many games I have never become interested in, but it is more popular than it would otherwise be because I didn't limit it to my own preferences.
What software do you use to scale the GIF files? I always get excessively
ugly reslults when I do that. Even when my browser scales a gif image of a
Chess poition, separation lines between board squares are randomly
disappearing, etc.
I use the GD library that comes with PHP. What I do is create a whole board image, then rescale that. I don't rescale individual pieces. The advantage to doing it this way is that I get in-context anti-aliasing of every piece with the space it occupies.
We each have our preferences. In general, your program will appeal to a broader base when it can accommodate more preferences than just your own. For example, Game Courier uses some graphics I don't like and supports many games I have never become interested in, but it is more popular than it would otherwise be because I didn't limit it to my own preferences.
I use the GD library that comes with PHP. What I do is create a whole board image, then rescale that. I don't rescale individual pieces. The advantage to doing it this way is that I get in-context anti-aliasing of every piece with the space it occupies.