FreeOrion

BraveSirKevin wrote:They don't play as nicely with the atmosphere and shadow shaders as I'd like at the moment, and getting the most out of the overlays would require some animation. Fixing these issues will likely involve messing around with some stuff in the source, but I have no idea where to look if I'm going to effect some changes there. If anyone knows which source files control the revolving planet graphics in the UI, please point me in the right direction.

Bigjoe5 wrote: See RotatingPlanetControl (SidePanel.cpp:583). It uses a surface texture, an overlay texture (which is what you would be dealing with) and an atmosphere texture. All of them are represented with GG::Texture objects. The overlay texture is rendered in RotatingPlanetControl::Render by passing it into the RenderPlanet method (SidePanel.cpp:307). As far as I know, there are no GG objects to represent animations, such as might be stored in a single file as an animation... Instead what you may have to do (as is done with the asteroid animations) is have a sequence of textures that are passed to the RenderPlanet method in turn, to create an animation (see default/data/art/planets/asteroids).

I also want to add that while I'm not terrible familiar with animation stuff, having a huge number of pngs rather than using a file format actually designed for animations seems a bit odd... would it be better to choose a format for animations and use that instead of the gazillion separate little images?

BraveSirKevin wrote:It's fairly standard practice to use sequential PNGs, especially for high-resolution rendering were you absolutely do not want the artifacts of a compressed movie file messing things up. You can use pre-rendered animations in a movie format if you have the video codec available, but to my knowledge FO does not have one in its libraries at the moment. Even then, you'd not use the movie as an overlay texture if you could help it because of the quality issues...

BraveSirKevin wrote:I looked through the various text files under freeorion/default to try and find where the sit-rep icons get called, but I could not locate it.

SitRepEntry CreateTechUnlockedSitRep(const std::string& tech_name) {
    SitRepEntry sitrep(UserStringNop("SITREP_TECH_UNLOCKED"), "icons/sitrep/tech_unlocked.png");
    sitrep.AddVariable(VarText::TECH_TAG,          tech_name);
    return sitrep;
}

SitRepEntry CreateBuildingTypeUnlockedSitRep(const std::string& building_type_name) {
    SitRepEntry sitrep(UserStringNop("SITREP_BUILDING_TYPE_UNLOCKED"), "icons/sitrep/building_type_unlocked.png");
    sitrep.AddVariable(VarText::BUILDING_TYPE_TAG,  building_type_name);
    return sitrep;
}

SitRepEntry CreateShipHullUnlockedSitRep(const std::string& ship_hull_name) {
    SitRepEntry sitrep(UserStringNop("SITREP_SHIP_HULL_UNLOCKED"), "icons/sitrep/ship_hull_unlocked.png");
    sitrep.AddVariable(VarText::SHIP_HULL_TAG,      ship_hull_name);
    return sitrep;
}

SitRepEntry CreateShipPartUnlockedSitRep(const std::string& ship_part_name) {
    SitRepEntry sitrep(UserStringNop("SITREP_SHIP_PART_UNLOCKED"), "icons/sitrep/ship_part_unlocked.png");
    sitrep.AddVariable(VarText::SHIP_PART_TAG,      ship_part_name);
    return sitrep;
}