Reverse time graphics

[Duke_Anax]

For people who live in the northern Hemisphere (about 90% of people), the sun rises on the left and sets on the right. So it's odd that Wesnoth does it the other way around. I also have difficulty getting used to it, constantly second-guessing and double-checking. So can we get an option to reverse it?

[Ravana]

It was intentionally disabled in core. https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/issues/1905

Can be done with addon https://files.wesnoth.org/addons/1.14/M ... le.tar.bz2

[Duke_Anax]

It was intentionally disabled in core. https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/issues/1905

OK ..., I'm just gonna not comment on that ...

Can be done with addon https://files.wesnoth.org/addons/1.14/M ... le.tar.bz2

That add-on looks plain simple, but 1.18 doesn't seem to recognize the replacement directory like that.

For a workaround, I manually overwrote the original game directory. But I don't like that approach.

[egallager]

For people who live in the northern Hemisphere (about 90% of people), the sun rises on the left and sets on the right. So it's odd that Wesnoth does it the other way around. I also have difficulty getting used to it, constantly second-guessing and double-checking. So can we get an option to reverse it?

1. Dave (the original creator) is Australian
2. Perhaps the sun(s) work differently on Irdya?

[Duke_Anax]

1. Dave (the original creator) is Australian

That explains why it started that way, not why they removed the option to change it and kept it the default anyway.

2. Perhaps the sun(s) work differently on Irdya?

Doesn't matter really. It's a GUI element that is meant to remind the player of a crucial game state, so it should be localized to the player.
Imagine today's date is presented to an American as 05.04.2024 instead of 04/05/2024, they'd be confused. Or taking that argument to the extreme, you could say we don't need an English translation, write everything in Irdya, the player can get used to it.

All of that was explained in the GitHub thread, but someone in power was stubborn.

[Ravana]

I should be able to create Lua theme based way to mirror the images nowadays, maybe will try tomorrow.

[Ravana]

Uploaded for 1.18.

Code: Select all

# Addon icon is misc/time-schedules/default/schedule-morning.png~FL()~CROP(10,-10,72,72)~BLIT(misc/time-schedules/default/schedule-morning.png~CS(50,0,0)~CROP(80,-10,36,72)~BLIT(misc/red-x.png~SCALE(24,24),8,16)~O(1),36,0)

[modification]
    id=Rav_Reverse_Time_Graphics
    name=_"Reverse Time Graphics"
    description=_"Flips sidebar time of day images so that sun moves left to right."
    require_modification=yes
    [event]
        name=preload
        first_time_only=no
        [lua]
            code=<<
local old_time_of_day = wesnoth.interface.game_display.time_of_day
function wesnoth.interface.game_display.time_of_day()
	local output = old_time_of_day()
	local element = wml.get_child(output, "element")
	if element ~= nil and element.image ~= nil then
		element.image = element.image .. "~FL()"
	end
	return output
end
local old_selected_time_of_day = wesnoth.interface.game_display.selected_time_of_day
function wesnoth.interface.game_display.selected_time_of_day()
	local output = old_selected_time_of_day()
	local element = wml.get_child(output, "element")
	if element ~= nil and element.image ~= nil then
		element.image = element.image .. "~FL()"
	end
	return output
end
>>
        [/lua]
    [/event]
[/modification]

[Duke_Anax]

Wow, that was fast, thank you.

Now it perfectly reverses my hack to restore the default, lol. (easy fix)