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mbauer · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject: Country/Continent Borders

Is there a way to control the border thickness in the code of the map?

dustin · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:17 pm Post subject:

No, this is set by the user in their preferences. But you can fudge some things by putting a border into the background theme.

logan · Luxer Joined: 17 Jun 2004 Posts: 192

you can kinda fake it with the map design theme design

rob · Lux Addict Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 593

country gaps are important, but not as important as continent gaps.

mbauer · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 10:23 am Post subject:

Ok, then how does the color selector in Photoshop correspond to the
<color>0.0/0.0/0.0</color> format in BBedit. In other words how to I get the exact same color from a file in Photoshop to the 0/0/0 format?

mbauer

mbauer · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 10:45 am Post subject:

Also can an image be on top of the countries? If not, what exactly does the foreground in the theme do?

Preacherman · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject:

A Lux <color>0.0/0.0/0.0</color> value corresponds to the RGB value in Photoshop. So that would be black. <color>1.0/0.0/0.0</color> would be red, etc.

No, you cannot place an image over the countries. Nobody has any idea what the foreground.jpg image actually does.

mbauer · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject:

Preacherman · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject:

Oh, sorry I misunderstood you...no, all colours you select with the eyedropper are always available. Once you have selected the colour, it will become the foreground colour on the two large squares towards the bottom of the toolbar. Click on it there, and Colour Picker window will pop up, from there you can see the RGB values. These are given in a range from 0 - 255 rather than 0.0 - 1.0, so you'll need to divide each by 255 to get the correspondig Lux value, for example:

255/255 = 1.0
51/255 = 0.2

etc..

HTH

mbauer · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 11:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks Preach, that worked

mbauer · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:18 am Post subject:

So Dustin, Is it possible for you to give us the control of the borders width in the code? Also what does the "foreground.jpg" do? Even the preach doesn't know! Shocked

mbauer

dustin · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:57 am Post subject:

The foreground image replaces the texture underneath the countries with an image of your choice.

Perhaps border width control would have been better as a map-defined property, however for now it shall remain a user-defined one.

mbauer · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:01 am Post subject:

Ok

Thanks, Dustin

mbauer

mbauer · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

So can you control the "opacity" of the countries, in order to reveal more of the foreground?

mbauer

Headache · Luxer Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 83

dustin · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:48 pm Post subject: