3.0 Full color beta
7 June 1997 build readme file

The main thing is new pixmaps. I'd recommend *deleting* your
entire current .\pixmaps directory.

Included in here are five pixmap sets/themes:

para -- the old pixmaps -- stolen from Paradise *)
        (16 view only)
bc16, bc32 -- Bronco colored pixmaps (16 and 32 views)
16, 32 -- Shawn's Haqued Up Pixmaps (16 and 32 views)
          (touchup on Fed and Ori Paradise pixmaps,
           and reworking of the Rom and Kli Paradise
           pixmaps)

The default set is "32" (see below on how to change)

What's this 16 and 32 views stuff? The ships have a
fixed number of directions they have been drawn at.
The standard bronco bitmaps had 16 different
directions (so there was a bitmap for every 360/16
or 22.5 degrees).

Since I felt like tweaking the pixmaps, but not to
thrilled about creating every view by hand, I wrote
a quick little QBASIC program to do it for me (this
program - ROTATE.BAS - is included in this ZIP). One
by-product was it could do any number of views you
wanted, so I not only generated the pixmaps with
16 views (22.5 degrees), but also 32 views (a
pixmap for every 360/32 or 11.25 degrees). If you
feel bored, you can sit around and run them at
64 views yourself (IMHO not much improvement)

In short, the 32 view sets will look smoother.
They are recommended.

Also included are two DOS batch files -
"setarace.bat" and "setrace.bat" - in the pixmaps
directory. They can be used to either set the set
for all the races at once, or just one. i.e.:

C:\netrek\pixmaps\> setarace bc32

would change all races to the bronco colored, 32
view pixmaps

C:\netrek\pixmaps\> setrace FED para

would set FED only to the paradise set.

I like my pixmaps. If you don't, make yer own.
Rants to /dev/null.

I like my client. If you find bugs, email me.
YMMV, but all reports are looked into
                                      eventually.

Cheers,
Shawn

*) Credits for the Paradise pixmaps:
Artists (alphabetical order):
	Brandon Gillespie (Lynx)
	Mike McGrath (Kaos)
	Joe Rumsey (Ogre)
	Ola Andersson (Janice Rand)

