[Freeciv-Dev] Re: next beta

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Røsdal wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
>
> > Maybe Thursday.  Any forgotten-about bugs to be fixed before then?
> Maybe PR#8818 can be looked at again?
>
> To summarize it: change the fog of war to darken the whole tile,
> instead of making every other tile black. This causes flickering when
> sliding the map on an LCD montor.
Whoa, is that still a problem?  I've heard of one isolated bug report 
about it but I thought that was unrelated.
> Take a look at this screenshot of Civ3 fog of war, for an example:
> http://img.gamershell.com/imagefolio/gallery/Strategy/Civilization_3/tanks.jpg
No way we can use alpha-level drawing for 2.0.  Doing it for 2.1 will be 
hard enough, since none of the clients (including the GTK client) are in 
any way set up for it.
-jason