Texture Recolor

[Noyga]

While looking at a website i had an idea.
Would if be possible to apply a texture to a unit, just like TC, but with a texture instead of just a color.
This would allow for example to make things like this (see his flag):
I have no clue wether it would be easy to implement or not.

[zookeeper]

While looking at a website i had an idea.
Would if be possible to apply a texture to a unit, just like TC, but with a texture instead of just a color.
This would allow for example to make things like this (see his flag):
I have no clue wether it would be easy to implement or not.

I don't really see how such a system could be made to work in Wesnoth in an even remotely easy to use way.

[Noyga]

As i imagine it could work :
1) Get the (rectangular (or square ?)) dimension of the zone that would be retextured
2) Resize the texture to that size
3) Apply the textrure to the image (with more or less transparency, according to the 'TC' color)

[Viliam]

What exactly do you expect such recoloring to be useful for?


If this is just an easy way to make nice flags for 2-3 special units, then maybe it is too much work for little effect. (But if there is a volunteer to do it, no problem.)

If this is a way to generally replace existing team colors with "team textures"... well, many units do not have large areas available for coloring, often only a few small pixels. There the textures may be difficult to recognize.

[Darth Fool]

Ok, it could be done in the following way: first make it possible to recolor from one color palette to another palette (instead of to a color range as is done now). Then, create a palette that has all of the shades that you are going to use, one for each pixel. Something like a grid where one axis is the shade and the other is the pixel number. So, if you had an 8x8 grid that you wanted to texturize with 4 different shades (for the different animations) you would need a palette of 256 colors. You might be able to automate it so that the 4 different shades are done automatically, but you would want to have a script that auto-generated the palette so that the artist could sample it when making animations. So, the question is, how many places would something like this really be useful as compared to, say, just making new images? Ok, I could see that it might allow fun things like having custom flags for online play, but what size texture are we talking about? Basically, as I see it, Tcoloring is already a good deal of work for the artists.

[Eleazar]

While looking at a website i had an idea.
Would if be possible to apply a texture to a unit, just like TC, but with a texture instead of just a color.
This would allow for example to make things like this (see his flag):
I have no clue wether it would be easy to implement or not.

I don't really see how such a system could be made to work in Wesnoth in an even remotely easy to use way.

More importantly, it would not be useful for the vast majority of units. Few of them have flags. "Texturing" the scattered, unconnected bits of TColor on a unit would almost always produce something nonsensical.

[Noyga]

I would typically see it used like RC() rather than TC().

[Cuyo Quiz]

Wesnoth World Champion!.

It had to be said, and also, by hte implications of that comment... no, just... no.

[Darth Fool]

Ok, with a little thought, I have realized that in principle, using RC, you could do this already in a very painful way. So hey, 'it can already be done'. What is really needed to make it easier, is some WML support for defining palettes using an image instead of having to define each and every color in hex.