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The graphics are incomplete, I have around 15 pairs of other pieces available, but the idea now is prepare a set that can be used with Courier. I have seen that not all the pieces I sent are the most recent version, so I have to update it soon, adding the pieces missing and the last versions of some of the pieces. The listed pieces are good, but there are some of them that are a bit bigger or smaller than the most recent versions, and there is perhaps a line of drawn pixels more or less, down in some icons, causing a not-very perceptible sempsation of very little changes of level in the ubbication of pieces on the squares. The immobilizer icon is very old, the new one is bigger, Alternative Queen, alternative Guards-like pieces, alternative Royal pieces, Marshall and Archbishop graphics, alternative equine pieces, and some of ROCOCO pieces are missing in the set, but the icons have been made. Wait one or two weeks, more or less, and I'll update the set, although the posted here can be used perfectly now (When I transform my icons, in BMP format with all colors, to GIF images, the graphic loss quality and color distorts a little, including the pure green used back, appearing many times a halo around the piece, and I have to make additional retouches, so there is some work giving the images in GIF format. TONY: Would you help me creating Presets for some of my games with two buttons: allowing the change of pieces sets used in the game, Alfaerie or Galactic?
Would it be possible to make these images available under more sensible names? As it is they are completely unusable for the Interactive Diagram. I don't even mind single-letter piece names, but that capitalization is used to distinguish white and black pieces, and that the color indicator is appended as a postfix rather than a prefix is completely fatal.
I don't even mind single-letter piece names, but that capitalization is used to distinguish white and black pieces, and that the color indicator is appended as a postfix rather than a prefix is completely fatal.
You are actually complaining about the same thing I was complaining about in 2003, and it was already fixed years ago. However, the old image files are still there alongside the new ones. The old ones are as you describe. Just ignore those and use the new file names.
But where can I find these new filenames if I am not a psychic? The Topics Index -> Computer Resources -> Graphics brings me to this page, which doesn't specify any names in text form, and only links to images with these silly names.
https://www.chessvariants.com/graphics.dir/galactic/
(I found it by viewing an image in a new tab then cutting off the filename from the URL. I'll add the direct link to the page next time I get the chance.)
But where can I find these new filenames if I am not a psychic?
Go to the directory for this page. Just chop off the file name.
I found it by viewing an image in a new tab then cutting off the filename from the URL. I'll add the direct link to the page next time I get the chance.
Ah, I didn't try that, because for most piece sets it would not work, since the main page for those is index.html, and using the URL of the directory would just redirect you to that main page. But here the main page is galactic.html.
It would be convenient if the page could contain the piece names as caption to the images. Even knowing the directory they are in, it is very annoying to have to open them all one by one when you are looking for a certain image. (E.g. what the heck is a 'Super'?)
At the very least, the images shown on the page should use the descriptive filenames, so the user can learn these by inspecting the image, or display the page source.
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