Re: Debain package for Crimson Fields

[Dave Fancella <david.fancella@comcast.net>]

On Monday 05 July 2004 03:49 pm, Alan Wilson wrote:
> Sorry... I'll rephrase a bit, yeah in History line the moving and
> attackin was split from the begining, and i know its an old system.  I
> was more questioning in the spirit of open source would there be any
> problems with me perhaps taking a fork of crimson fields to try and
> create such an interface.  If it was ok with yourselves, do you think
> such a thing would be possible ? or am I dreaming :)

It's GPL, you can do whatever you want, right?  ;)

> I would also love to do a roman theam set for Crimson fields too,
> Crimson fields is great, but I would love to send legionairs, catapults
> and roman gallons against each other :)  ok... maybe I just have an over
> active imagination :) especially since I can't even compile 0.4.2, so I
> might be jumping the gun a bit :)

Compiling 0.4.2:

The change to SDL_ttf was to support internationalization.  Did you install 
SDL_ttf?  It was something that changed for 0.4.0, I think, maybe slightly 
earlier.

Theme sets:

I'd like to see a Roman one myself.  ;)

Dave

> On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 21:39 +0200, Marcus Schreiner wrote:
> > > I know I need to get up to speed on the coding side of things if I
> > > every wanted to do this, but how would you feel if I had a go at
> > > splitting the screen in half like the old HL interface ? so you have
> > > player 1 in move mode whilst player 2 is in attack mode ? would it be
> > > something farily straight forwards to do ? or would it be quite a
> > > re-write to come out with that style of interface ?
> >
> > Hm, that would mean, that the attack phase of player 1 is at the same
> > time as the move phase of player 2. For player 1 the following could
> > happen: he moves a tank that was located next to an enemy unit. At the
> > same time, player 2 attacks this tank and destroys it. For player 1 it
> > has moved and is perhaps blocking the way for other units - although it
> > has already been destroyed...
> > Perhaps this worked in HL, where they split the moves from the beginning
> > into a move and an attacking phase. But I think for Crimson fields this
> > should not be implemented afterwards.
> >
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