Wow! Interesting!
Well please feel free to keep us up to date in that thread i made (and linked
to the previous msg below) or in one of your own. I wish you luck!!
Breaks my heart every time I see someone post on a forum or chat somewhere that
they don't wanna play the game because they don't like the graphics. They miss
out on a great game and a lot of hard work from Michael and his predecessors.
Alternative tileset support and a healthy 3rd party tileset modding scene like
FreeCiv has would massively change that issue but seemed a nearly impossible
dream.
Good luck!
Regards
Blake
On Friday, 24 July 2020, 07:20:10 pm ACST, Fenyo <[email protected]> wrote:
One small secret: I have already treated the issue with tiles. :)
Oh god, I wish I would have a lot of time to finish it now...
Regards,
Fenyo
|
| Hi Michal,
Yes you're not the first and you probably won't be the last haha as
unfortunately it's not possible at this stage.
I would love it too and made a thread discussion about this very thing a while
back if you want to know more about this:
https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/discussion/141200/thread/bfbeff67c3/
But basically the short version is that supporting alternative tilesets (like
FreeCiv does) is still in the WAY TOO HARD basket for the FreeCol devs. The
team is quite small these days so they'd rather focus on gameplay and getting
things more finished, polished and stable than worrying about cosmetic stuff
like graphics. Also even if support for alternative 2D tilesets happens one day
the original Col graphics can not be used in the Freecol releases otherwise
they'd be breaching copyrights of a game still being actively sold today. Best
hope is support for alternative tilesets is added one day and then someone
who's not part of the team makes a 3rd party tileset mod with original Col
graphics. However obviously the devs would not be able to host or support the
mod.
If some programming genius or the talented people who originally developed the
multiple tileset system for FreeCiv wanna show up here and offer their services
I'm sure no one would say no lol! They'd just say good friggin luck, you're
gonna have to overhaul half the darn game lol!
Regards
Blake
On Friday, 24 July 2020, 06:55:53 pm ACST, Michał Kotowski
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi!
I'm a FreeCol fan and I wanted to ask (you've probably been asked the same
question hundreds of times...) if it is somehow possible to play FreeCol with
the original game's graphics and data files (possibly with some tweaking)? As
much as I like FreeCol in terms of improved gameplay, the original pixelated
artwork is hard to beat when it comes to creating the atmosphere.
Best,
Michal Kotowski
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