On 04/15/2014 12:34 PM, Michael T. Pope wrote: > On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:38:48 +0200 > Michael Vehrs <michael.bursc...@gmx.de> wrote: >> The rivers have been moved off-center. Rivers and forests have been >> auto-generated. If you consider the approach worthwhile, I will improve >> the rivers. > I can confirm the movement of the rivers and forest clearance is working, > which is encouraging. Its worth moving forward IMHO, although I remain a > bit cautious until we see the final result. One problem that does seem to > have resurfaced is the sticking-out-corner problem, visible at the bottom > of the desert tile in the attachment.
Was that ever fixed? I can't recall that happening. As far as I remember, this is a pretty fundamental problem of our map painting algorithm, which became a lot more visible when I replaced the opaque tile borders with transparent ones. In your screenshot, the desert beach is painted after the savannah beach to its left, and does not take the type of the tiles it touches at the corners into account. The problem here is that if we add a transparent border at the corner, then several such borders will sometimes add up to a pretty dark spot. > >> It might also be a good time to generate multiple versions >> of the forest tiles, and possibly also of the river tiles. > Agreed, and possibly to harmonize with the existing alternate-tile > hackery used for mountains. > > Cheers, > Mike Pope That should probably wait until after the next release. I see a few problems to be solved. In principle, the tile style information should not go into the model, since it really only concerns the GUI. However, we save no persistent GUI information, yet. We also need to take into account that the number of available styles might vary from player to player and from time to time, depending on available mods, for example. Thus, it might be a good idea to map the tile id, or some combination of id and coordinates on the number of available tiles, e.g. id.hashCode() % number_of_styles On the other hand, we need to determine the styles when the map is first displayed, which might be some work, especially if we decide to use multi-tile images, or images that depend on the style of neighbouring tiles. And some styles might have additional constraints, such as ice floes that should not be used in the tropics. Regards Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Freecol-developers mailing list Freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecol-developers
