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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game /
« on: March 30, 2004, 07:44:57 pm »
Well, I followed the build instructions in the readme verbatim, and there were no build errors, and I *DO* have libpng there (1.2.5) on my LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

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Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game / Linux: Unable to load menu17.png, but it is there...
« on: March 30, 2004, 09:12:14 am »
Version is 0.2.010.
The message I\'m getting is:
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crystalspace.maploader.parse.image: Could not load image \'/planeshift/art/backdrop/menu17.png\'. Unknown format!
Couldn\'t create Resource \'menu17.png\'
Failed to initialize window \'menu\'.
Couldn\'t activate/create dialog \'menu\'
PreloadModels: Preloading complete

At first glance my suspicion is the path is the problem, since there is no /planeshift directory, as I have the dist in /home/chsh/games/planeshift. I grepped the sources and looked around, but the only mention of the menu load is in a call to CreatePixmap on \"menu17.png\", so the path is obviously prepended by the app elsewhere.

The result of this is the menu never gets drawn. The game boots the splash screen with the \"Planeshift\" in the upper right, then just sits there.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?
It might also make more sense to dump the app out with an error if the main menu can\'t be drawn, wouldn\'t it?

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Fan Art /
« on: March 30, 2004, 08:57:13 am »
A cross guard is a VERY specific thing. Traditionally eastern swords favour a small disc-type guard, whereas the cross-guard (or hilt) actually makes the weapon look like a cross, and tends to be European. There are again other types of coverage like certain sabres have, which is a basket around the whole hand.

Cross style guard:


Disc style guard:


Basket style guard:


Not all swords had guards either, consider the case of many of the roman army\'s swords. There is quite a bit of variety in the weaponry on that site, so if you are making some fan art it may be a good resource to draw inspiration from. If that isn\'t broad enough, Google Images is your friend. :)

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