[Freeciv-Dev] Re: civ2 vs freeciv topologies question

[Jason Short <vze2zq63@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Christensen wrote:
> For the last few days, I've been working on some perl
> classes to read a civ2 scenario (actually savegame and
> misc files in scenario directory rather than *.scn)
> and write it out as a freeciv mod directory including
> savegame. I figure that something like this would
> encourage those unhappy with Civ3 or tired of civ2's
> limitations to come over to freeciv.
>
> Most of it has proven straight forward and last
> night,as a test, I produced a freeciv map from a civ2
> savegame (only terrain) only to see that the map
> encodings are incompatible (which I knew but had
> forgotten). Any ideas how to get around this to
> produce a useable map somewhat close to what the
> designer intended? A long-time lurker here, I admit
> that I haven't followed the topology discussions as
> closely as I should/could have. Any new topology
> tricks? 
> If there's nothing to be done, then I'm afraid there's
> not much point in continuing.
I assume you mean that the CivII map is "isometric":

X X X X X
 X X X X
X X X X X
 X X X X
X X X X X

while FreeCiv supports only "flat" maps:

XXXXXX
XXXXXX
XXXXXX

there are two patches available that will allow FreeCiv to use isometric 
maps; at some point in the (nebulous) future this functionality will be 
folded into freeciv and either type of map will be usable.
In the meantime, you're pretty much out of luck.  You can try to fit the 
civII map into the freeciv one, but it won't work very well.
jason