CastChaos
11-24-2012, 06:15 PM
Hi guys, I thought about something very exciting while dog walking today:
You know, there are things like Google Docs, where you can edit text, spreadsheets and probably more online and share it with people so they can edit it, too, and you can do it simultaenously and you EVEN can see where others are standing in the document and see as they write.
Now, wouldn't it be spectacular with the ZC tilepage, too?! That you export your current tilepage to such a server and you share it with people and it's FANTASTIC for group projects! Because you can edit the same tilepage and see which tile is worked on by who AND you can edit the same tile together: you see which pixel others are editing and if you are better in one aspect of spriting and your good buddy is good in another, then you can do wonders together! Like, one crafts out the shape of the NPC, other makes up the clothes, third colours it... And all rejoice! Then you import it into your tilepage!
I think it would be great if it happened. Maybe this doesn't require any change in Z-quest.exe at all, because the web application extracts the thing out from the .qst file (OR you save the tiles as .til and later reapply the new .til), but if it requires change, then it could be implemented after 2.50 is pronto. Because Saffith once told very long ago that after 2.50, ZC will be rewritten from scratch for future versions. Then it's the time for radically new implements.
The editing in browser surely can go like the Word and the Excel in Google Docs... Anyhow that goes. It actually would be mighty fine right in Google Docs: it could have a drawing installment next to the word and spreatsheet one and it then could be set to the resolution ZC uses (20x16 px wide, etc.).
I thought AGN was the best place to tell about it because the devs live here and maybe some computer whizs are here. I'm web-programmer and though I'm not any good at all, I guessed this all was possible and useful.
While writing this post, I started to have more ideas about online relations of ZC... but later about that, I will se who says what.
You know, there are things like Google Docs, where you can edit text, spreadsheets and probably more online and share it with people so they can edit it, too, and you can do it simultaenously and you EVEN can see where others are standing in the document and see as they write.
Now, wouldn't it be spectacular with the ZC tilepage, too?! That you export your current tilepage to such a server and you share it with people and it's FANTASTIC for group projects! Because you can edit the same tilepage and see which tile is worked on by who AND you can edit the same tile together: you see which pixel others are editing and if you are better in one aspect of spriting and your good buddy is good in another, then you can do wonders together! Like, one crafts out the shape of the NPC, other makes up the clothes, third colours it... And all rejoice! Then you import it into your tilepage!
I think it would be great if it happened. Maybe this doesn't require any change in Z-quest.exe at all, because the web application extracts the thing out from the .qst file (OR you save the tiles as .til and later reapply the new .til), but if it requires change, then it could be implemented after 2.50 is pronto. Because Saffith once told very long ago that after 2.50, ZC will be rewritten from scratch for future versions. Then it's the time for radically new implements.
The editing in browser surely can go like the Word and the Excel in Google Docs... Anyhow that goes. It actually would be mighty fine right in Google Docs: it could have a drawing installment next to the word and spreatsheet one and it then could be set to the resolution ZC uses (20x16 px wide, etc.).
I thought AGN was the best place to tell about it because the devs live here and maybe some computer whizs are here. I'm web-programmer and though I'm not any good at all, I guessed this all was possible and useful.
While writing this post, I started to have more ideas about online relations of ZC... but later about that, I will se who says what.