1README.artists - Fri Mar 17 13:57:53 MET 2000
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3- Design of stones and patches: A scene file for xcheckers is of format xpm.
4  It is wide six times its height, eg 204 x 34, and looks like this:
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6  +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
7  |        |/ / / / |        |        |   __   |   __   |
8  |        | / / / /|   __   |   __   |  |__|  |  |__|  |
9  |        |/ / / / |  |__|  |  |__|  |  |__|  |  |__|  |
10  +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
11    white    black    black    white    black    white
12    square   square   man      man      king     king
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14  The first two fields become the white and the black squares of the board.
15  The other fields show the pieces only - make the background transparent!
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17- Colours of text and window: xcheckers looks up two symbolic colours in a
18  scene file, namely "paper" and "pen", to make status line and board match.
19  You can use a text editor to append the codes "s paper" and "s pen" to the
20  lines defining the colours of your choice.
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22Feel free to send your artwork to <pch(a)myzel.net>.
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