[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6902) gen-terrain for blended terrain types

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6902 >

Raimar Falke wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6902 >

>>>>Of course this solution is short-sighted.  I think a better one is to 
>>>>add a new terrain value blend_type (an integer).  For forests we have 
>>>>blend_type==1, for mountains and hills blend_type==1 and for all other 
>>>>terrain blend_type==0.  If blend_type!=0, the tilespec code will blend 
>>>>the terrain.  Different terrains with the same blend type will only be 
>>>>blended if the correct tileset option is set.  This allows a lot more 
>>>>flexibility for the rulesets, and also cuts down on the amount of code 
>>>>needed by eliminating special cases.
>>>
>>>Do the better one. Just to confirm: this will only matter for
>>>iso-tilesets?!
>>
>>Ugh.  Currently non-iso tilesets do manual blending of all terrain 
>>types.
> 
> Another question to confirm: this manual blending was also used in
> Civ3?!

For hills and mountains, yes.  For other terrain types civ3 used a 
completely different drawing system.

jason