On 04/16/2014 02:11 PM, Michael T. Pope wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:23:03 +0200 > Michael Vehrs <michael.bursc...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Was that ever fixed? I can't recall that happening. > You are right, it still happens in current games. Its probably just more > obvious in the new tiles. > >> 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 > That sounds good to me. The mountains use (x + y) % number_of_styles, so > we even have some precedent. Using hashCode is likely superior as I > expect it is less visually predictable.
I will do some experiments. > >> 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. > That is where we are heading I suspect, and if so, I can see that getting > the corners right is not going to be easy. > > Cheers, > Mike Pope I have fixed or mitigated (I'm not really sure which) the corner problem by sorting the images spilling over from neighbouring tiles before drawing them. In fact, it might be a good idea to generalize this approach to all images that make up a tile. We are already doing something similar with tile improvements. By the way, I looked at the problem of missing colony names. At the moment I have no idea what causes it, but I'll spend some more time on the issue. 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
