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    <H1>FreeCraft (fka ALE Clone) unit graphics</H1>
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<H2>The units/buildings of a race</H2>

<H3>Units</H3>
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<LI>Worker<BR>
    The heart of the army, collects resources, repairs buildings and
    builds buildings.
<LI>Worker with resource GOLD<BR>
    The worker carring a resource.
<LI>Worker with resource WOOD<BR>
    The worker carring a resource.
<LI>Soldier with close combat weapon<BR>
    Small close combat unit.
<LI>Soldier with far combat weapon<BR>
    Small far combat unit.
<LI>Improved soldier with far combat weapon<BR>
    Small far combat unit with better features. 
<LI>Big/fast soldier with close combat weapon<BR>
    Bigger and faster close combat unit.
<LI>Improved big/fast soldier with close combat weapon<BR>
    Bigger and faster close combat unit with special magic features.
<LI>Kamikaze<BR>
    Self destroying fast unit.
<LI>Siege weapon<BR>
    Heavy slow engine.
<LI>Magic unit<BR>
    Unit with many magic features.
<LI>Flying fighter<BR>
    Heavy flying far combat unit.
<LI>Flying scout<BR>
    Fast flying none combat unit.
<LI>Tanker<BR>
    Collects resources on water, can build buildings on water.
<LI>Tanker with resources<BR>
    Tanker carring resources.
<LI>Transporter<BR>
    Transports units over the water.
<LI>Small ship<BR>
    Small water far combat unit.
<LI>Big ship<BR>
    Big/slow water far combat unit.
<LI>Undersea ship<BR>
    Under water fighting unit.
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<LI>Heros<BR>
    There are also many heros which only have an own icon.
</UL>

<H3>Buildings</H3>
<UL>
<LI>Farm<BR>
    Supplies 4 units.
<LI>Barracks<BR>
    Trains fighters.
<LI>Home house<BR>
    Trains workers, store for resources.
<LI>Improved home house<BR>
    Gives more resources and new buildings.
<LI>Very improved home house<BR>
    Gives even more resources and new buildings.
<LI>Land resource store<BR>
    Extra store for land resource.
<LI>Armory<BR>
    Research for better weapons.
<LI>Scout tower<BR>
    Base for the defence towers.
<LI>Defence tower<BR>
    Light weapons with air defence.
<LI>Better defence tower<BR>
    Heavy weapons without air defence.
<LI>Wall<BR>
    Only used for building phase.
<LI>Training/building place for bigger land units.
<LI>Training/building place for improved bigger land units.
<LI>Training/building place for magic units.
<LI>Training/building place for air units.
<LI>Training/building place for sea units.
<LI>Training/building place for undersea units.
<LI>Building to produce water resource.
<LI>Store for water resource.
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<H2>General units/buildings</H2>

<UL>
<LI>Animals as decoration on maps.
<LI>Building for land resource. (mine)
<LI>Shows water resource.
<LI>Stones
<LI>Gate
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<H2>Needed graphics for the units</H2>

To an unit/building/object belongs an icon and some animations.<P>
Each unit/building/object has its portrait, which could be different for
each tileset.<P>
And following animations:
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<LI>Standing
<LI>Moving
<LI>Attacking
<LI>Dieing
<LI>Under construction
<LI>In use
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<H2>The icon format</H2>

An icon has the size of 46x38 pixels. Currently all icons are stored in a
single file (I will change this, if required).<P>

<H2>Unit file format</H2>

All images for all animations and headings are stored in an single file.
Currently the loader supports only <I>PNG</I> format.
The biggest needed size is taken for all images.
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[1-1][1-2][1-3][1-4][1-5]<BR>
[2-1][2-2][2-3][2-4][2-5]<BR>
....<BR>
[n-1][n-2][n-3][n-4][n-5]<BR>

<P>X-1 ... X-5 are the different headings for the same animations.
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<LI>X-1 looking north
<LI>X-2 looking north-west
<LI>X-3 looking west
<LI>X-4 looking south-west
<LI>X-5 looking south
<LI>The missing directions are made with mirroring
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2-Y is the second frame of the animation.

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