[Freeciv-Dev] Re: alternate topologies: isometric map

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:04:17AM -0700, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> Being without internet access for a while, I found
> myself back in Windows playing Alpha Centauri.  I
> guess I'd never noticed before that in addition to
> using a isometric tileset (which, unlike FreeCiv's
> current isometric tileset, I found quite nice) it also
> uses an isometric map.  I assume CivII probably also
> uses an isometric map, although it's been a really
> long time since I've played that game.
> 
> Just to reiterate (read: skip this paragraph), an
> isometric map is like this
>   X
>  XXX
> XXXXX
>  XXX
>   X
> and wraps along the diagonals (just one of them, in
> the case of Alpha Centauri).  Under an isometric
> tileset, it will look flat.
> 
> This has given me new enthuisasm to make such a
> topology possible in FreeCiv.  Unfortunately, there's
> a long way to go.  Some of the steps include:
> 

> (1) remove all use of map_adjust_[xy] and replace with
> calls to normalize_map_pos (or the equivalent);

I'm waiting for such patches.

> (2) remove all accesses to map.[xy]size;

How do you plan to implement whole_map_iterate or similar things?

> (3) make all map accesses independent of the map
> storage structure;

What map accesses? There have to be methods which have to know how the
map is stored. At least common/map:map_get_tile and
server/maphand:map_get_player_tile have to IMHO.
 
        Raimar

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