I should add that page 54 of the therion book describes map-fg usage, including the altitude parameter.
Best regards, Jonny --- Please excuse my brevity, I am responding from my phone. On Jun 28, 2016 09:56, "Jonny Prouty" <jonathanprouty at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Marco, > > The 'map-fg' layout command instructs therion to color scraps based on the > (I believe) average value of station altitudes in a given scrap. A scrap > will have one color, but neighboring scraps will differ if their average > altitude differs. Perhaps this functionality will suit your needs. > > Best regards, > > Jonny > > --- > > Please excuse my brevity, I am responding from my phone. > On Jun 28, 2016 09:17, "Marco Menchise" <marco.menchise at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> I like to have cave maps colored by altitude. I think color is an >> important piece of information, especially in plant layouts. >> >> As far as I know, Therion is able to color on scrap basis only. Because I >> also like to have the same color in the same piece of cave either in >> elevation and plant map, I usually split scraps at the same borders in both >> projections. >> >> This is quite cumbersome and time consuming. Also, there's no practical >> way to do such a split when trying to draw on a touch screen while hanging >> up from a rope.. >> >> So I'm proposing a solution: is it possible to split scraps offline based >> on altitude? I'm thinking about a script which takes a (series of) .th2 >> file as its input, and generates another .th2 file containing no scraps >> deeper than, say, M meters. Scraps with stations whose vertical distance >> exceeds M should be split in two or more scraps. Areas, lines and other >> symbols should be connected (if possible) across scraps. >> >> Using a script like that, one could push M around to zero and get a cave >> filled with something like a color gradient, which could be wonderful. >> >> Is that a crazy idea? ;-) >> >> Marco >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Therion mailing list >> Therion at speleo.sk >> http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/attachments/20160628/c1835bd1/attachment.html>
