[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8608) tall terrain

["andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8608 >

Tall terrain is one of the features needed to make "isometric heightmaps"
work in Freeciv. - It's like the maps in Transport Tycoon. I made a
prototype for this some time ago, but there were some things I just could not 
get right.

Here's what such a map looks like:
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~andrearo/IsoMap_TestMap1.gif
And a tileset: http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~andrearo/IsoMap_Tiles.gif

So this tall terrain patch, (and some patches for choosing the terrain
sprite based upon the calculated height of the tile (eg. distance from
water + some randomness) would make such maps possible.  - Just some thing
I thought would be cool :)

Andreas Røsdal