Edit -- Seemed to have crossed post. This is for Rob --
Sure but if each tile is a map then all the one off unique images in that tile are in the file but each tile sharing the same images are still duplicated. Its convenient and can be useful but its not universally better than the way Dundjini does it.
Encoding binary data in XML would bloat it a bit - maybe add up to 35% but zipping the result would strip nearly all that back out.
Dormouse - I agree with you entirely.
It's just that people prefer some apps over others. I use a variety and some custom stuff thats not even public and I have been watching the tutorials of the members showing me stuff that occasionally I would find hard with any of my apps. Some features are specific to just one app and some of them are not free. I don't have the magic bullet answer but you have to be realistic and appreciate that that is the reality of it.
Your welcome to my source files too though I doubt they would be much use. I use some odd stuff. I have never spent more than a few minutes on Photoshop, Dundjini, or Gimp and haven't used DungeonForge or Xara, Sketchup, Bryce, Fractal Terrains, CC3 etc.
I'm pretty sure most people here would share source tho.
Oh dear, we cross posted again. Thanks for the offer. All we really need to know to decide if we can adapt a map is the program that was used and the fact that the source files would be made available (including the file structure in the case of DJ). I do appreciate that a lot of maps are produced in a combination of programs and that this can limit how easy they are for other people to edit; quite understandable as I do it myself.Originally Posted by Redrobes
I too have used a very large number of programs. Dungeon Crafter (1 and 2 and 3); DungeonForge; MapX; Dundjinni; AutoREALM. And I've had a little try of CC2 and Fractal Mapper and a number of programs I quickly forgot. As you say we tend to use some more than others and I mostly use DungeonForge and MapX out of these now.
I also use Photoshop, the GIMP, Photobie, PSP and a variety of the Corel programs, Paint.net, Inkscape, PhotoFiltre and I will pretty much try anything I can get my hands on. I mostly used to use Photoshop out of these, but I am more eclectic now and probably much less expert at them all as a result. The one thing I haven't got into is the 3D programs, though I do appreciate the artwork produced by those who have.
I think the systems used by DF and DJ are very similar in this regard, it is just that DF contains all the info within a map and DJ contains the image info outside the map.
Not that I would want the thread to focus on DF or DJ. What I am really interested in is having the greatest number of maps available that I can bend to my own use. Speaking personally, I'm not likely to go out and buy a program that I do not have just to adapt a map, but I might well download a free program to do so; and I'd be quite keen to have maps & sources for the paid programs I do already have. I suspect that there's quite a few of us who would like to do this and there will be a lot of people already owning all the commonly used software.
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