Create a New Format for Ducks

[William-McGonagle]

Idea

Currently, the duck system is a little stupid. I designed it so that it would work well with a low number of items, but I have started to realize that people want more and more things to choose from. That is why I have to rebuild the duck system from the ground up.

1. To do this, I need to first create a new storage format for the duck information, that will be pretty easy, I just need to figure out how it will look. Information about that will be in this issue.

2. From there, I need to build a parser to interpret the storage format. Information about how the parser is going to work will be in this issue.

3. After that, I want all of the duck items to be stored in a very simple way. For this, I am thinking maybe to do a server or just read from the file system directly. I am not quite sure yet, but information about that will be in this issue.

4. And finally, I need to build a system for generating the final duck SVG from the duck items (Todo 3) and the duck storage format (Todo 4). Information about the duck SVG generation system will be in this issue.

Todo

• General
  • Build Basic SVG Parser
  • Build Duck Format Parser
  • Build a System for Generating Duck SVG
  • Figure Out How to Store the Duck Items
• Testing
  • SVG Library Testing
  • GET /duck
  • GET /duck/:id
  • GET /duck/:id/:zoom
• Endpoints
  • GET /duck
  • GET /duck/:id
  • GET /duck/:id/:zoom

[William-McGonagle]

Intro

Okay, so the current plan for the duck format is that the numbers will all be in hexadecimal. From there, the first number will always be the version. The following diagram will describe version 1 of the duck storage format.

Format

1A4B37322633B2C32

1 - The version number
A4 - The duck's hat (Item #164)
B3 - The duck's eyes (Item #179)
73 - The duck's beak (Item #115)
22 - The duck's wings (Item #34)
63 - The duck's smoke (Item #99)
3B - The duck's tail (The tail is the SVG for the entire body) (Item #54)
2C - The duck's item (Item #44)
3 - Beak Color (Red)
2 - Feather Color (Yellow)

Extra

Colors

0 - Black
1 - White
2 - Yellow
3 - Red
4 - Blue
5 - Brown
6 - Rainbow