Andor's Trail

A lot of games similar to AT where the player character is a static icon or image allow for players to load and use a custom graphic for their character.

Any chance of that being an option someday for AT?

I love this in any game I've played that supports it, and no offense to anyone involved in their creation, but I'm not a huge fan of the existing options.

That's a good idea and was already asked for.
Technically it should be possible, but I am not sure how much work it would be to fully realize it. We'll discuss it internally.

I am actually a software developer by profession, but my career has been in entirely different platforms (no mobile dev experience). I might try forking AT and seeing if I can make this work myself, but given my lack of experience with the platform I'm guessing I will give up... I'm afraid it's far too easy to use my spare time for playing games than for figuring out how to contribute to them

Contributing is playing on another level ...

We'll talk about it internally first. There were done already some thoughts about it.

Cool - I appreciate the response

Well, it's Java, so a key question is whether you have experience in Java. If you do, I think Android has some built-in image processing routines, so it might be not that hard. I'd take a look myself, but while I have programmed in several languages (but not as a profession programmer), Java is not one of them.

I've not done Java since some really basic stuff in college, but I have done some other languages with similarities to Java, such as C# and Javascript. Just guessing since I haven't looked at it yet, but I suspect the bigger learning curve would just be picking apart the code base and understanding how it's all interrelated – where the character image file is managed, and all the places the code would have to be updated to support a feature like this. A game like this will be a very different animal to any other code bases I've worked on.

Downloaded the latest Android Studio, forked the repo, and it builds and runs successfully on the included emulator right out of the box. Nice!

Cool! Thx to OMGeeky, he made it rather smoothe.
I remember that I had needed about 2 weeks to get the right pieces together
It's much better now.

Nut wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 2:17 pm Contributing is playing on another level ...

Lol, yeah, so...... I don't think I'm ready to play on that level