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Thanks, I am trying to write an article for now! Then I'll be constructing the game courier and maybe other wonders for everyone to enjoy!
If you want to add a new square later in the game, you should probably include room for it from the beginning, initially deleting it and any other extra spaces you'll have to include in your FEN code with the minus sign. You can add the space later by putting a piece or an @ sign (representing an empty space) on it. But if you're actually playing the game, you would want to use Game Courier, not the Diagram Designer.
You can use a minus sign in your FEN Code to delete squares. Just use it the same way you would a piece label but for spaces you don't want on the board. I don't know what you mean by figurate a square.
Hello Fergus,
I need for my apothecary to include bruhahaa squares so bassically a 10x10 board with 4 more squares connected to the top and bottom rank, say d0,e0,f0,g0,d11,e11,f11,g11. But just those. Is there a way to block the rest of a 12x12 board or do something to be able to draw that? Also I need to figurate a pocket square for an joker(jester) that will be added during the game seiwaran chess style. How do you recommend me to do that?
Thanks!
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Images made with the diagram designer will now have smaller file sizes when the color count does not exceed 256. Although the script was outputing images with larger color counts as JPG, and it was outputing smaller pallette images as PNG, it was still outputting the PNG images as true color images. I modied the script to output PNG images as small pallete, and I modified it to use the greatest amount of compression when outputing a PNG. In a test I ran, an image that was originally 12.7 KB got reduced to 7.66 KB by changing it to a small pallette image, and it got further reduced to 6.43 KB by maximizing the compression. In another test I ran, I compared the file size to that of an image I had already reduced the file size of with Ultimate Paint. With its file size optimized with Ultimate Paint, it had been reduced from 12.9 KB to 6.6 KB, but the improved script now outputs the same image with a size of 6.57 KB. This means there is no longer any need to reduce the size of the PNG images created with the Diagram Designer with some other program. Note that this affects all diagrams previously made with the Diagram Designer, since the changes were to drawdiagram.php, the script that draws the images, not to diagram-designer.php.