Cliff Face quandary was Re: just a quick question...

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Re: Cliff Face quandary was Re: just a quick question...

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For a map, all that needs to be done is cut & copy from another map that has these issues, so I don't have to scroll the window to do before / after comparisons.
Heh, i'm a little slow to understand things (:
Here are a few test cases:
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But, well, i was also appealing to the general intrinsic taste of playability :wink: The maps i mentioned require making fast tactical decisions, but it's very hard if the map topology is not clear enough. (It's pretty hard even if it is ^^)
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Thanks. :3
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The second one is much better!!
:3 //i'm gonna love this smiley (:

Looks like all passable roads on this screenshot now actually look passable (:
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Edit: Yeah, now with v3 beta 1, i can compare the two versions. The new beta looks much much better :) , but there's a new problem with snowy cliffs. They have disappeared completely :(

Old: http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/2364 ... 008vis.jpg
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hao wrote:Edit: Yeah, now with v3 beta 1, i can compare the two versions. The new beta looks much much better :) , but there's a new problem with snowy cliffs. They have disappeared completely :(

Old: http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/2364 ... 008vis.jpg
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Hmm.. will try tweaking it again.
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And one more problem here, actually :(
Water :(
It climbs cliffs :(
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hao wrote:And one more problem here, actually :(
Water :(
It climbs cliffs :(
It's a new waterfall feature. :P
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I <3 new features :D
This is why some features aren't implemented: http://forums.wz2100.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=7490&view=unread#p87241
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Re: Cliff Face quandary was Re: just a quick question...

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Dalton wrote:
hao wrote:And one more problem here, actually :(
Water :(
It climbs cliffs :(
It's a new waterfall feature. :P
actually its not new... even in the original, if you did it right - it would flow uphill... :3 XD found out the hard way.. :annoyed:
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hao wrote:And one more problem here, actually :(
Water :(
It climbs cliffs :(
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/388/wz ... 031sno.jpg
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Note, when you got these kinds of bugs, please make a ticket about them, since it is really hard getting caught up after being gone for ~ a week...

Anyway, I am not sure if this is a bug on our side, or a flaME bug...
lav_coyote25 wrote: actually its not new... even in the original, if you did it right - it would flow uphill... :3 XD found out the hard way.. :annoyed:
And this makes me say .... :hmm:
I would like to see what the output of the same lnd file is with editworld32, if possible...

Anyway, here is what I am getting:
wz2100-20101119_171806-Snowbridge2b-T1.png
then the other area ...
wz2100-20101119_171747-Snowbridge2b-T1.png
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Sorry (: Done! #2339
I don't have editworld, but maybe map2lnd converter from /tools/map could be helpful?
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hao, flaME does actually export to lnd files, though it's a bit crappy and the files produced need manually editing for me to get them to work, but meh.

The problem does not exist in pre-3.0.1 or whatever it was called. I can clearly remember this problem originally, but I thought that gerard_ fixed it, could your changes to cliff tiles have undone these changes buginator?

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Buginator: I've just realized how easy it is now to play with textures, so i've made a little graphics mod that makes mountains in rocky tileset a little darker and thus distinguishable more clearly from the gravel. Here it is:
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:lecture: before, after

I don't think it's beautiful (i'm no Mangust; he has done a great work making beautiful textures), but it looks clearer to me. Maybe some texture rework could be useful. Btw, i wonder if such mods will ever be compatible with multiplayer, or if it'd ever be possible to make maps with replaced textures (well, i can do it now, but then the map starts acting as a mod and replaces texures on other maps as well).

Also: i'm curious which parameters were changed by Buginator to make the mountains less fluffy. I want to experiment myself on it a little, 'cause i feel it's not perfect yet. :roll:

Oh my, i'm getting geeky :geek: :oops:
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Dalton wrote:
hao wrote:And one more problem here, actually :(
Water :(
It climbs cliffs :(
It's a new waterfall feature. :P
Barrel propulsion here we come!
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hao wrote:Buginator: I've just realized how easy it is now to play with textures, so i've made a little graphics mod that makes mountains in rocky tileset a little darker and thus distinguishable more clearly from the gravel. Here it is:
noqgrmod.wz
:lecture: before, after
Nice. If you haven't seen Berg's cliff textures, I like those as well.
I don't think it's beautiful (i'm no Mangust; he has done a great work making beautiful textures), but it looks clearer to me. Maybe some texture rework could be useful. Btw, i wonder if such mods will ever be compatible with multiplayer, or if it'd ever be possible to make maps with replaced textures (well, i can do it now, but then the map starts acting as a mod and replaces texures on other maps as well).

Also: i'm curious which parameters were changed by Buginator to make the mountains less fluffy. I want to experiment myself on it a little, 'cause i feel it's not perfect yet. :roll:

Oh my, i'm getting geeky :geek: :oops:
Well, I guess this http://developer.wz2100.net/ticket/2013 explains what you can change...

For what it is worth, the water is now fixed, but might have to go back and tweak the cliffs again... :stressed:
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