[CF-Devel] Fog of war code checked in

[Mark Wedel]

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      That would be neat but using the existing lighting code would end up
     
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      doing the wrong thing on the client side, if the interpolated stuff
     
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      is used anyway. If you are thinking that the end effect would be to
     
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      darken tiles that are blocked by LOS, you don't want full bright tiles
     
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      adjancent to these 'blocked' tiles leaking light in since it isn't
     
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      a lighting issue, it is a blocked view issue.
     
     
 Your probably right - it would work right without interpolated code for
darkness.  I'd actually have to think about this further - since the blocking in
this case would move this blocking/darkening to squares it blocks, the results
may be OK.  For example, if you have the case:

..XXX
P1XXX
..XXX

 the 1 would be darkness for those spaces.  No matter what, all the X's would be
at least darkness one, since the blocking that the 1 provides would spill over
to those other ones.

 There may be cases with strange situations where it doesn't look right (lone
spot that has some blocking).

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      Oh yeah, guess I could have worded that better. I was hoping you could
     
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      do it cause I don't have time to do anymore crossfire features until
     
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      I get back from my sabbatical in November. I still have some bugs to
     
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      fix in the gtkSDL client that dnh reported to me and fix up the other
     
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      transport mechanisms to get fog working properly in all cases before
     
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      I go.
     
     
 Ok.  I'll look at this - I would guess it shouldn't be too hard.

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      Do you have any sort of release schedule in mind? Are we just gonna add
     
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      lots of features to crossfire and do a 2.0 release in like a year or two
     
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      or do you plan on a 1.1 release?
     
     
 I have no schedule in mind.  The problem with trying to make a release is that
it requires forking trees and makes for a bit more work (presumably we want to
try and make a stable release).  OTOH, most of the servers are still keeping
pretty up to date, which helps verify stability.