[Freeciv-Dev] Re: next beta

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> > 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.

Yes, still there.  I don't think it's the same as PR#11080.

> > 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.

Sure. please put it on some wish-list for a later version.

Andreas Røsdal