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The Recipe File
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The `tiles.dat' file is the recipe file for generating the tiles.
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It is a plain-text file, where each line begins with a tile id,
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followed by an image specification.
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The image specification consists of one or more image layers separated
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by the pipe character (|). The layers are drawn in the order specified.
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A layer is a file name (excluding the .png extension), optionally followed
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by @X,Y,W,H, where X,Y specify the upper-left corner of the rectangle to
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draw, and W,H specify the width and height of the rectangle to draw.
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Generating the composite image
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To build a new tiles.png file, do the following:
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1. Open a command-prompt, and cd to the graphics subdirectory.
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2. Compile the helper program by typing the following command:
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javac MakeTiles.java
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3. Build the new tiles.png file by typing this command:
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java MakeTiles tiles.dat tiles.png
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(This will create tiles.png in the current directory.
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Copying it into the ../resources/ directory and rebuilding
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Micropolis using Ant is left as an exercise for the reader.)
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