It's not really graal-related though i am using some graal-things for test. Beholder has seen the project and has helped me w/ a bit (formulas mainly + testing)
Currently supports:
Animations to an extent.
Fonts through FTGL / Freetype2
Graphics via OpenGL
Streaming Audio / MP3 / Midi / Wav through fmod.
Transperent graphics + unlim color – gif, png, bmp, probably others… – through OpenIL
Window through SDL, also has joystick, mouse, keyboard handling, threading, and some other things.
This is very nice… If you could get this working with the existing 2.1.7 Gserver or make your own server for it, that would mean both the client and server would be %100 original
^ What he said. It would be seriously wicked to have a custom client so Unixmad's only reason to nail Gservers would be using the default tilesets, etc…
Yes, please, post the source code. Then, maybe… I didn’t bother downloading the sample, because I’m only interested if I can do something with it. For example, there should be a tile editor.
Seriously, although this is very smooth and feels a lot like graal when running about, it could possibly be made using the knowledge learnt from the lazy foo tutorials (http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/index.php). It may be more beneficial to make your own simple client and get a feel on what code goes behind the scenes, i.e blitting textures and applying them to SDL surfaces.
Obviously that Joe-cool guy has added a few more features such as using the character sprite sheet and alowing the use of tiles and the .nw map format but you get the picture
Once you have cloned this, feel free to do a simple gscripting system… Oh and not to forget an NPC server, I hear GR need one of them