Compilation Bump

[DustyPorViva]

Went through and got all of my ideas that were ignored, and decided to bump them in one entire collection of ideas and improvements:

saturation value : added alongside of RGBA. 1 would be full saturation, 0 would be no saturation(grayscale). Currently impossible to replicate, and I think many people would appreciate the effects.

download window : I'm tired of having to close a download window when I switch a server, because it feels the need to inform me I'm downloading some random head or gani. Just have it not pop up.

PM notifaction : Changes the little head icon on the taskbar button into a blinking PM when you receive PMs. Only personal PMs, not masses/guild/admin! This would be useful for those who don't have minimize to taskbar enabled.

gmap.mapimg : added to the gmap object, a variable that contains the currently loaded MAPIMG from the gmap file. Would save the effort to work around and load it from the gmap.

tilelayers[x].layer : change the visual layer of tilelayers. This of course, would be useful for drawing tiles over players. I know this would probably need a rework of the way levels are drawn, but dammit, it would be so worth it!!!

freezeani() : freezes the players ani in place, at its current anistep, for the specified about of seconds. This, of course, would also include a freezecharani().

gani rotation : Still bugged. Rotating a gani like sword.gani will cause the gani to displace itself horribly.

clientside SentToRC() : would echo a message to the RC client on the clientside. Would be useful to send messages to staff when they log on, that wouldn't spam everyone else, for example.

global toguild: : toguild: sending a message to all your guild members regardless of server. Also the ability to receive toguild's from other servers. Along with this, I again, hope that the guild list would list all guild members regardless of server. Much like how the buddy list is.

onwallpoly({polygon data}) : of course, would check for an onwall within the polygon data(or a line), and some way to return the position the polygon intersects a wall.

polygon images : ability to change how images are resampled on polygons. I don't like the bicubic method Graal uses. More on this can be checked here: http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...ad.php?t=76258
Aside from that... drawing images on a 4 pointed polygon causes a distortion along the center, that runs diagonally. This means you can't really do '3D' stuff, because the image is so severly distorted, it's not accurate.

seteffectmode() : change the mode of seteffect, using the modes provided for showimgs. I don't see why this would be hard.

decimal layers : layers being checked down to the decimal. This is mainly important for layers 0-3, since there are only three layers. Not really important, but there are instances where 3 just isn't enough. Because it uses decimals, it would be fully backwards-compatible.

showimg layer <0 : Ability to draw images under the tiles. This is already possible with GUI's, but sometimes it's a pain in the ass... not to mention GUI's cause focus loss and other complications. Being able to just change the layer of an image to -1 to draw it under the tiles seems so much simpler. Oh, and it should carry the same respects as layers > 0. -1 through -3 would be drawn on level coordinates, and <-3 would be drawn on screen coordinates.

addtiledef online : when the image from an addtiledef is not in cache, it should instead be displayed as black, instead of jarbled tiles. I dunno if it still does this, but I guess it doesn't hurt to list it.

textoutline = bool : currently there is textshadow, which is cool. I also suggest textoutline, which would outline the text. This is a very nice effect for text, as it makes it a lot easier to read on ANY color, when there is a black outline, and white text. When over white, you see the black outline, when over black, you see the white text. Very useful, I'd love to see it. There is a way to do it, but it involves about 10+ images just to pull it off for one line of text.


This is all I can think of, but I'm sure I'm missing tons of ideas I've had over the years I have forgotten about. Now, Stefan, I beg you to go through and read all the ideas and at least give me a comment as to possible or not... and not just completely ignore them or pick and choose and leave me wondering about the rest.