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Drowning in a Cup of Tea
28.02.2007 at 01:17:07

Not sure where to put this...

Chase The 'Bots seems to rise a problem related to the custom-graphics mansions: shouldn't their names indicate what set of custom sprites they should be played with?

Indeed, we have the Starcraft, Dominator and Mummy sets, which their authors invited other architects to use freely for our own mansions. Aquamat just did it (cheers btw!) and now I realise: how am I supposed to remember that Chase The 'Bots is to be played with the Dominator theme?

I grant you that even with my poor memory this will probably not be an intractable problem yet. But what if there are more Custom themes and even more mansions for each theme?

Any suggestion?

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Amplifyed Adventurer Offline Formally known as "Sam S." Posts: 300 Down the hall on the 3rd right Gender:	Re: Drowning in a Cup of Tea Reply #1 - 28.02.2007 at 05:43:13 make dominator, mummy, and starcraft custom graphics mansions a ceartain color.
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Anthony YaBB Administrator Offline Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 1367 Canada Gender:	Re: Drowning in a Cup of Tea Reply #2 - 28.02.2007 at 07:37:47 What if you run out of colors?
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aquaMat Expedition Leader Offline Posts: 1159 Berlin, Germany Gender:	Re: Drowning in a Cup of Tea Reply #3 - 28.02.2007 at 16:53:29 You have certainly made a point, Toybox !! What about this: When somebody creates a mansion that uses a certain Sprites-set, like I did with Chase The Bots he should name it thus: Chase The Bots (DOM) ..... or: Example Mansion (MUM). What do you think ?
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Toybox Treasure Hunter Offline Posts: 561 Kiel, Germany	Re: Drowning in a Cup of Tea Reply #4 - 28.02.2007 at 18:46:36 Well, that could work (and Sam's colour scheme as well, albeit only temporarily as pointed out by Wingy). The (minor) problem is that it makes mansion names look less nice! I guess we can also wait to see if subfolders will be allowed in the next update of MM
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Freddy YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1789 Brugge, Belgium Gender:	Re: Drowning in a Cup of Tea Reply #5 - 28.02.2007 at 19:31:17 Maybe I see it too difficult. But there aren't only sprites. Also backgrounds, music ... What when someone starts mixing?
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Re: Drowning in a Cup of Tea
Reply #6 - 09.12.2007 at 22:17:27

Toybox wrote on 28.02.2007 at 01:17:07:

... Chase The 'Bots seems to rise a problem related to the custom-graphics mansions: shouldn't their names indicate what set of custom sprites they should be played with?

Indeed, we have the Starcraft, Dominator and Mummy sets, which their authors invited other architects to use freely for our own mansions. Aquamat just did it (cheers btw!) and now I realise: how am I supposed to remember that Chase The 'Bots is to be played with the Dominator theme?

I grant you that even with my poor memory this will probably not be an intractable problem yet. But what if there are more Custom themes and even more mansions for each theme?

Any suggestion?

Is this an answer to your recent Wink

question?
http://www.actionsoft.com/forums/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1196693052

Of course in combination with the fact that each

listed mansion

is uploaded WITH all the customized data. E.g. when you download the zipfile of

Immortal Ruins

you receive the mansion AND the 4 obliged backgrounds from

Church

.

I hope you'll understand that we, admins, can't do that for FU&Ds. For this type of mansions, the builders have to take care about that their selves.

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Re: Drowning in a Cup of Tea
Reply #7 - 09.12.2007 at 22:28:31

It answers very thoroughly a bunch of questions, thank you Cheesy

Freddy wrote on 09.12.2007 at 22:17:27:

Of course in combination with the fact that each

listed mansion

is uploaded WITH all the customized data. E.g. when you download the zipfile of

Immortal Ruins

you receive the mansion AND the 4 obliged backgrounds from

Church

.

But this would work only at the time of downloading, but a bit less if you play the mansion a year later. Well, as I said, drowning in a cup of tea Wink

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Freddy YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1789 Brugge, Belgium Gender:	Re: Drowning in a Cup of Tea Reply #8 - 09.12.2007 at 22:36:34 Toybox wrote on 09.12.2007 at 22:28:31: ... But this would work only at the time of downloading, but a bit less if you play the mansion a year later. ... Don't you keep the stuff of a mansion all together in its folder? Maybe I need to show you a screenshot out of my Finder:
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Toybox Treasure Hunter Offline Posts: 561 Kiel, Germany	Re: Drowning in a Cup of Tea Reply #9 - 09.12.2007 at 22:41:00 Actually I took care of that. I put the special data in a secured (read-only) subfolder in the Midnight Mansion folder. All extra graphics and sprites and so on go there, and there is a spare Original Set as well
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