[CF-Devel] Large forest. Was: more proposals

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David Seikel wrote:

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     I had a look and I didn't see any pohibition against posting large images,
     
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     so here is one.  If I have committed a serious breach of netiquette, please
     
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     forgive me, I have not been on this list for long.
     
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     This image shows the big world with my large forest in it.  I have added
     
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     grid lines so that you can see the tile boundaries.  The script I use
     
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     converts certain maps to forest wholesale, so I had to choose the maps
     
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     carefully.  Although I ended up with a bigger forest than was needed, there
     
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     are very few straight edges, and thus it looks natural.
     
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     Well it's big, I wouldn't want to see two of them this large anyway.  
Did you take your version of the maps in the last six weeks  after all 
the forest I added in the same area (but up and to the right...) and 
after the changes to Brest (didn't see that on there).  I do think there 
should be a 'Great Forest' (names anyone?) to the east of Scorn but four 
more forests of this size and the world would be one big forest.  For 
what it's worth, I personally don't mind it too much (I have to actually 
see the maps first to say if I like them or not but it looks nice from 
space), but it is really big.

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     Using the weather modifications I posted earlier, the lakes north of Navar
     
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     get a lot of rain, it could be quite swampy there...
     
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Did you change the elevation on the lakes to make them deep?  I am 
starting to get cozy with the idea of having a single elevation value 
per map (determined by finding the current average?) and then generating 
the elevation of each tile on that map based on the arch and that map 
elevation value, to generate the weather maps - I think this would be 
better way to handle it than actually having the elevation values in the 
arches. It would allow for a deep lake in a high mountain area or high 
forests or deserts which is not the case currently.  It wouldn't be hard 
to do (he said expecting to be corrected...) I think, just changes to 
the weather map genertation routine and the map headers,  and it would 
free up the map maker form having to change the elevation to make the 
weather do the right thing...  You worked with the weather code a bit, 
what do you think of that?



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