Re: Need chess pieces
- Posted by CoJaBo <cojabo at suscom.net> Oct 11, 2004
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Guillermo Bonvehi wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:15:40 -0700 > CoJaBo <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote: > > > > > posted by: CoJaBo <cojabo at suscom.net> > > > > I am writing a simple network chess game > > to test my CJBN network library. > > I need some pieces for it that must > > meet the following reqirements: > > *It must have all the basic chess pieces > > (King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook, and Pawn) > > *They must be bitmaps that can be read by > > the loadDib() function in win32dib. > > *There must be 2 different colors(doesn't > > matter exactly what color). > > *They must have a single background color > > that will be treated as transparent. > > *They should be as close to 64*64 as possible. > > *They must all be the same size and squares. > > *The actual image should be close to the edge > > of the bitmap, touching if possible. > > *You can draw them yourself if you're a good > > artist, or > > *they can be downloaded, as long as the origanal > > author permits it(the program will be=20 > > non-commercial(free)) > > There's a chess program in the archive that has all the pieces in separate = > bitmap files ( <a > href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&wi=">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&wi=</a> > n=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=chess ). Try contacting the author (Nor= > mand Blais) and ask for his permission to use it yourself. They don't have = > the same background but changing it is just openinig paint and use the fill= > function ;) Those would work, but I'd like some in color. If none better are found these will work fine (as long as the author's email address is still valid...). > > Best Regards, > Guillermo Bonveh=ED > >