Does what the title says. I made sure there were no duplicate entries.
Tested by launching the dev build and confirming the flags are all
present.
While all have present items, a couple (Alaska and West Virginia) do
fail to render. I think this is because the .svg files are too large.
Selecting these flags does not cause any issues upon entering the game,
they're just invisible.
In any event I am working with N0ur on some more flag updates that will
be forthcoming in the next few days, will address these couple then.


Added functions to TerrainMapGenerator to create a bitmap from the
Minimap Terrain array with the colors being identical to those rendered
in game, with the additional change of setting the Alpha of all water to
0.
Calls added to generateTerrainMaps to actually generate the thumbnail
PNGs,
Revision to src\client\utilities\maps.ts to reflect that the images
pulled into the UI should be those ending in 'Thumb.png,'
I've tested by launching the game and starting a few matches.
hile I'd hoped that using the minimaps as the basis for the thumbnails
would speed things up I think the actual bottleneck is the writing to
the file system.
Below is a screenshot showing these thumbnails in the UI.




Finally I will say that while the code additions work, given my novice
status with typescript and asynch calls these changes may benefit more
from review and a little critical feedback before they're ready to
merge.
There's a bug that when using translators in your browser it shows
troops/gold/... as `NaN`, I couldn't get a translator to work to
confirm, but this should work
create endpoint to load archived game. when joining game client first
checks if the game is active, if not it requests the game archive from
the server. the archive is sent to LocalServer to replay the game
locally. Every 10 ticks a hash is stored on the archive, and during
replay the LocalServer verifies this hash.