<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35908 >
The current method of drawing deep oceans is basically unworkable. To keep the hand-drawn coasts while integrating deep ocean, multiple layers of corner-cell sprites are used and overlayed on top of each other. But because these sprites only have boolean matches, it will always be drawn badly when coast, ocean, and deep ocean all meet at the same corner. After some discussion with Hogne and Daniel on RT, I have a plan to fix this by adding a third drawing layer. Layer 0 will contain land, ocean, and deep ocean. This is fully-matched sprites: so 3^4 = 81 sprites are needed. These 81 sprites can be hand-edited to look extremely nice (this is identical to how civ3 graphics work). Layer 1 will contain basic land terrains, with blending. There's just one sprite per land terrain, less than 10 total (as it is done now). Layer 2 will contain the land terrain overlays, with binary matching against adjacent terrains. This takes 16 sprites per terrain type (mountains/hills/forest/jungle), just as is done now. The only real change is in layer 0. Here instead of getting 32 quarter-sized sprites, we will have 81 full-sized sprites. And each of these 81 sprites gets drawn over the *corner* where 4 tiles meet. The initial graphics can be generated from the current graphics, but will take some editing to fix up the combinations that are not currently covered. More to come. -jason _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
