[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Adding new terrain types to the ruleset?

["Ross W. Wetmore" <rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are currently 12 defined terrain types, and they are pretty much
hardcoded into a lot of places like savegame and such that need to 
translate to a symbol and back.

I think there is a hard limit at 15 or 16 because a lot of code assumes
masking capability, plus array lookup stuff, and 16 was a good number.

But it shouldn't be too difficult to make a pass over everything once 
to define 3 or 4 "User Terrain" types that one could parameterize in
the rulesets. The difficulty might be in getting them into the original
map generation process. But you could always use (an updated) civworld
to create scenarios.

Cheers,
RossW
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At 05:40 PM 01/08/12 -0400, Miguel Farah F. wrote:
>Is there a limit in the current code to create a new terrain type, in
>addition to the ones existing already (as opposed to simply change
>one)? For example, let's say that I want to create a modpack where
>there's a unit that can transform an ocean tile into a land one, using
>concrete (the japanese did this a few years ago, to "save" an island).
>This would be a new terrain type.
>
>Can this be done?
>-- 
>MIGUEL FARAH
>miguel@xxxxx