Hi everyone, I'm currently working on making prettier rivers: https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/discussion/141200/thread/ac53d93ed5/
My current implementation of river rendering just ignores the river styles -- meaning there is no way to avoid having rivers being connected if they are on adjacent tiles. I can see that being able to override the river style is nice for making good looking maps, but I think allowing the style to be overridden has too many negative aspects: 1. It makes it more difficult for the player to quickly determine if a movement bonus is granted or not. 2. New styles and variations are not automatically used when introduced. 3. Choosing an incorrect style in the map editor may result in the river being invisible. 4. The connectivity of rivers need to be considered if we are to animate the rivers with a direction of water flow (or manually defined as a part of the style). What do you think? Do you agree on removing the river style selection? ...or would you like to keep it? Best wishes, Stian Grenborgen _______________________________________________ Freecol-developers mailing list Freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecol-developers
