Re: Local variations to crossfire.

[Fred the Wonder Worm <>]

> First, I'm sorry Geoff, for giving such a suggestion without reviewing
> its feasibility first.

No worries.

> Second, I much prefer Petri's approach. Looks good, Petri!

Yep!

> The .PP.DD.AA will use 9 characters, leaving only 5 for the
> archetype-name. How about:
> 
> NAME-AADXY
> 
>    NAME    is a name of archetype like "orc"
>    AA      is a animation phase, like 00, 01, 02, 03
>    D       is a direction, coded as:
>              y  k  u
>               \ | /
>              h -.- l     (looks familiar, I hope :-)
>               / | \
>              b  j  n
>    XY      is a part of archetype, like in troll 00, 01, 10, 11

Well, here's another possibility.  For each monster name, rather than having
name-AADXY, you could have name/AA.D.XY

This would give more room for the monster names, but it would make it easy
to get confused about where you are in the bitmaps tree.

Cheers,
Geoff.

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Geoff Bailey (Fred the Wonder Worm)   |   Programmer by trade --
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