New terminology regarding themes
Mon, 2014-12-01 17:26
Hi!
I propose to use two new terms for themes in the hope that this makes discussion of themes a bit easier.
Those terms I propose distinguish two types of themes.
Defintions:
- “Full theme”: Defined as a theme which can be played as standalone theme to generate random maps and as a background for image maps. It does not matter how fancy the theme is, as long you can generate random maps, it is a full theme.
- “Background theme”: Defined as a theme which can not be used to create random maps, but it provides enough material to be used as a theme for an image map. It is called “background theme” because the provided material usually consists of mostly background elements.
Examples for full themes in 0.9.20: Nature, Bamboo, City. Basically all themes you can select in the game menu of 0.9.20.
Examples for background themes in 0.9.20: Eyes, Cake, Planes. All those thems are used by the image maps of the same name. You cannot select those themes directly in 0.9.20, only by editing the config file this is possible.
Hi, I am a Hedgewars developer. 
Cake is a "full theme" it is just disabled by default because it was considered of insufficient quality.
If you add a preview icon you can use it on randomly generated maps (or static maps just using mask.png ofc).
Someone could try cleaning it up, I imagine the decision to disable it was made by Tiy.
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I'd agree with Tiy on that one.
Cake theme should be finished and developed into a full "dessert"/"candy"/"bisquit" theme or something.
That's actually one one of my TODO-lists... somewhere.
On topic:
The proposed distinction is a good idea.
(In a perfect world there would only be "full themes" ofc. though)
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