because of https://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=6321 the question raises: is tiff support needed at all?
if not it could be deprecated: when a tiff file is loaded a warning message is shown in log and at some point tiff support could be removed.
deprecate .tif support?
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Re: deprecate .tif support?
Looks like the issue is caused by a feature imported from ad0...
There will be hundreds of such features used in dozens of maps.
So the answer to your question is the answer to the question "Do you want to make all of such maps unplayable?".
There will be hundreds of such features used in dozens of maps.
So the answer to your question is the answer to the question "Do you want to make all of such maps unplayable?".
Re: deprecate .tif support?
Some great maps (Ravaged v2) and assets (some tree types) depend on TIF textures.
Someone need to update the assets first.
If this is started perhaps we could convert all assets to DDS and deprecate other formats when the time comes.
Someone need to update the assets first.
If this is started perhaps we could convert all assets to DDS and deprecate other formats when the time comes.
Re: deprecate .tif support?
It wasn't a big hassle to compile with libtiff, I was just surprised that it is used.
Probably far less effort than updating maps, so I don't think it should be deprecated.
Probably far less effort than updating maps, so I don't think it should be deprecated.
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Re: deprecate .tif support?
It's almost as if someone made a giant feature archive in the realization that things like this happen so that it could be fixed in a single place instead of hundreds of places, yet very few were farsighted enough to see the potential problems that this method fixed.
Re: deprecate .tif support?
Fortolding you soo angle
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Re: deprecate .tif support?
having a single feature archive would have made fixing this easier, but lobbies had trouble handling dependencies (they wouldn't sort them automatically) and a safe way to tune the features to each map is include them in and tweak them instead of using the package.
Imo we should avoid breaking backwards compatibility. Don't deprecate .tif support.
Imo we should avoid breaking backwards compatibility. Don't deprecate .tif support.
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Re: deprecate .tif support?
Seems to me that there was only some minor confusion here & no actual problem needs solving.
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Re: deprecate .tif support?
The lobbies handle them just fine if the game calls it as a dependency. And all you have to do to "Tune" the features is to include the featuredef in your map. It then overrides the package. Then on a per map basis you can have whatever settings you like for that feature.raaar wrote: ↑26 Oct 2019, 00:44 having a single feature archive would have made fixing this easier, but lobbies had trouble handling dependencies (they wouldn't sort them automatically) and a safe way to tune the features to each map is include them in and tweak them instead of using the package.
Imo we should avoid breaking backwards compatibility. Don't deprecate .tif support.
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Re: deprecate .tif support?
The lobbies handle them just fine if the game calls it as a dependency. And all you have to do to "Tune" the features is to include the featuredef in your map. It then overrides the package. Then on a per map basis you can have whatever settings you like for that feature.raaar wrote: ↑26 Oct 2019, 00:44 having a single feature archive would have made fixing this easier, but lobbies had trouble handling dependencies (they wouldn't sort them automatically) and a safe way to tune the features to each map is include them in and tweak them instead of using the package.
Imo we should avoid breaking backwards compatibility. Don't deprecate .tif support.
And no, please don't deprecate tif support. That would have a lot more irritating consequences than just maps being broken.