I should add that page 54 of the therion book describes map-fg usage,
including the altitude parameter.

Best regards,

Jonny

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Please excuse my brevity, I am responding from my phone.
On Jun 28, 2016 09:56, "Jonny Prouty" <jonathanprouty at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Marco,
>
> The 'map-fg' layout command instructs therion to color scraps based on the
> (I believe) average value of station altitudes in a given scrap. A scrap
> will have one color, but neighboring scraps will differ if their average
> altitude differs. Perhaps this functionality will suit your needs.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jonny
>
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>
> Please excuse my brevity, I am responding from my phone.
> On Jun 28, 2016 09:17, "Marco Menchise" <marco.menchise at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I like to have cave maps colored by altitude. I think color is an
>> important piece of information, especially in plant layouts.
>>
>> As far as I know, Therion is able to color on scrap basis only. Because I
>> also like to have the same color in the same piece of cave either in
>> elevation and plant map, I usually split scraps at the same borders in both
>> projections.
>>
>> This is quite cumbersome and time consuming. Also, there's no practical
>> way to do such a split when trying to draw on a touch screen while hanging
>> up from a rope..
>>
>> So I'm proposing a solution: is it possible to split scraps offline based
>> on altitude? I'm thinking about a script which takes a (series of) .th2
>> file as its input, and generates another .th2 file containing no scraps
>> deeper than, say, M meters. Scraps with stations whose vertical distance
>> exceeds M should be split in two or more scraps. Areas, lines and other
>> symbols should be connected (if possible) across scraps.
>>
>> Using a script like that, one could push M around to zero and get a cave
>> filled with something like a color gradient, which could be wonderful.
>>
>> Is that a crazy idea? ;-)
>>
>> Marco
>>
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