Circularthingie, etc.

[Argh]

Hey devs... minor-but-important request...

Um... can you please, please, please not hardcode circularthingie and other graphics, and instead keep references to them abstracted through Resources.tdf, as we move forward? I went on a quest to discover what is up with that file, and discovered that it's all over Spring, along with a lot've other files, instead of being read into Spring and passed to the code by a textfile, like everything modder-created will be.

It will allow for more flexibility down the road, such as being able to call custom particles for a given object during certain situations, custom nanospray (my immediate objective here, now frustrated when I saw the cascade effects ), etc.

[Tobi]

circularthingy is customizable in resources.tdf.

What you've probably seen hardcoded was the resources.tdf key, ie. in this code:

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	flaretex = textureAtlas->GetTexture("flare");
	explotex = textureAtlas->GetTexture("explo");
	explofadetex = textureAtlas->GetTexture("explofade");
	circularthingytex = textureAtlas->GetTexture("circularthingy");
	laserendtex = textureAtlas->GetTexture("laserend");
	laserfallofftex = textureAtlas->GetTexture("laserfalloff");
	randdotstex = textureAtlas->GetTexture("randdots");
	smoketrailtex = textureAtlas->GetTexture("smoketrail");
	waketex = textureAtlas->GetTexture("wake");
	perlintex = textureAtlas->GetTexture("perlintex");

The only hardcoded bitmaps I see are:

• graphPaper.bmp
• foam.jpg
• boatshape.bmp
• hovershape.bmp

E: first is background for end game graphs, last 3 are dynamic water only. I don't consider either of them important enough to fix atm.