Recent changes to feature-requests

PokDTC network

Acetyle — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:43:55 -0000

Allow an access from PokDTC to the PokDTC network.
More info on chouprod.blogspot.com

new options

Crusher66 — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:22:34 -0000

Beginner-Mode:
Mouse over your (or AI) hole cards, shows hand ranking.
Mouse over community cards, shows pott odds and outs.
Mouse over your (or AI) avatar picture, shows info:
money spend to pot so far, flop seen, hands played, showdowns/won ...

Player actions:
Auto pay SB & BB
Auto muck winning hand, auto muck loosing hand (network play)

Floating Game-Events window:
Make a tab to switch between event & chat window - perhaps a 3rd and 4th tab for hand-rankings and poker glossary.

thx :)

Omaha

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:26:01 -0000

Omaha game

Chips

Acetyle — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:58:09 -0000

Displaying chips when some bet/raise is done and
moving chips to the winner;the same occurs in poker web site.

SOUND_PACK_ENGLISH_v0.1a

Crusher66 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:02:54 -0000

change "chips sound" so that it's unmistakable if someone goes all in or just put some chips in!

- fix the BIG "all in" sound and make some different sounding samples

- "fold cards" sounds like crap

raising the blinds

Crusher66 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:57:34 -0000

just a suggestion:
raising the blinds after a predetermined time instead of after the elemination of some players. perhaps a timer value, adjustable in the properties dialog?

have to check which time is practicable...

Different screen resolutions

Crusher66 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:19:25 -0000

Issue No. 17 #
screen resolutions? game window sizeable?
"Is there a chance for different tables respectively different background pics, maybe skinnable? I can create some, if you`re interested in."

>> acetyle: I am not good at graphics... CUT OFF :)
>> Crusher: Need some info about format, size, filenames and alpha channel.

>> acetyle: we have to decide of a static resolution.
>> At the present time, all button are anchored top
>> left or bottom right and pictures are stretched.

CRUSHER: i agree with that, i would make at max. the options for 3 different resolutions (at fullscreen):
1280x1024 - 1024x768 - 800x600 (i'm not sure if anyone is running his desktop at that resolution anymore)
If you decide to make the window sizeable (in limits), we can't go much lower than 800x600 - anything above
should be no problem. Of course, I would like to see an option to have PokDTC available at every time and at
all positions on screen (perhaps as a widget for the opera browser) - but that's just me :)

>> acetyle: filenames for cards - look at cards folder

CRUSHER: no need to change the filenames, if you decide to have different card-graphics available,
just add one or more folders. If you tell me nothing different, i'll keep your names.

>> acetyle:
>> I could make the background skinnable no problem.
>> size: 90x100 on table and own hole cards , 70x80
>> opp hole cards, back ground 1024x780 ?

CRUSHER: I've already measured the different sizes of the cards. Probably i know the second most about
every pixel on screen, beneath you :) - I've scanned every pixel on screen i could be aware of...
IMHO you could do what you want with the "source graphics" if the quality is good enough, but
in my experience it is best to work with the "native" resolution, without to stretch the graphics in any way.
It's easy for me to make different sizes of the cards without any quality loss through deforming/resizing
- and i'm thinkling that quality matters, in every respect.

>> acetyle:
>> Alpha channel : several choice: you can choose
>> which one you want or you change the top left pixel
>> into the color you want to be transparent (I will
>> load it as alpha channel with C#)

CRUSHER:
I'm abstracting:
Alpha channel = not in all formats available
Top left pixel = we have to take an indexed or fixed palette format? (like GIF)
Perhaps you could mask out every pixel (like a green/blue/whatever box) ?
JPG has no transparency options, but PNG has.
BMP has no, beside this it's way too big.

My favorite is PNG because of a relative good (and lossless) compression, can have indexed palette and the option to have an alpha channel or a transpartent color.

DXT (Nvidia DDS) is not an option i guess - i hope not, because the result is very unpredictable, based
on the DXT-Format (DXT1, DXT3, DXT5 ...) :)

If i have to deceide, i would make it simple: All simple backgrounds pure pink:
R-255 G-0 B-255. Any other straight color is acceptable. For complex backgrounds with drop shadows
i prefer an alpha channel.

Prefabricated AI names

Crusher66 — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:17:16 -0000

AI-NAMES:
ia_names.xml
ia_names_Superstars.xml
ia_names_Funny.xml
ia_names_Comedians.xml
ia_names_Celebrities.xml
ia_names_EUROstars.xml

Extra Long Name For Testing <<< is suitable
Extra Long Name For Testing Purposes <<< is too long

More soundfeedback

Crusher66 — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:13:48 -0000

Could you make a folder (in MEDIA) & a function for:
- Splitpot (SHARE)
- Next Level (SHARE)
- Takedown (SHARE)
- Turn (SHARE)
- River (SHARE)
- new Cards (SHARE)
- Someone is out of money
- cash is < $value
- cash is > $value
- Pot > $value
... other events?
Dealing, mixing, chips or money sounds during the game?

Auto submit ranking

Acetyle — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:20:36 -0000

Automatize submition of ranking files by mail.