[CF-Devel] speculations about the floor (elevation)

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 --- Mark Wedel <
     
     mwedel at sonic.net
     
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        Elevation - I can see that putting it in the header does not give high
     
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      enough granularity.  What I see looking at the code is that the elevation
     
     
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      map is 100x100.  So one could put 4 values into the map header and keep 
     
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      the same resolution.  Not that I'm really saying this should be done,
     
     this 
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      is just a note.  I would argue that if the worldmap is expanded, the
     
     sizes 
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      of the relative tables should get re-adjusted for the extra tiles, and
     
     not 
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      have everything get skewed.
     
     
I just had an evil thought.  If we are going to remove per tile elevations,
we don't really need a per map value either.  For big world, we just need
to specify that the border between ocean and land is at elevation zero, and
calculate from there across the world.

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        I'd guess that those current elevations (100x100) are done by averaging
     
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      the effected squares?
     
     
Correct.

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      just think they'd be more meaningful if more directly associated with the
     
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      map. 
     
     
LOS really should use elevation information.  Stand on the north side of a
mountain, to the south all you can see is the side of the mountain one tile
away.  To the north you should be able to see a great distance.  Unless you
are also standing in the middle of a forest off course B-).

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      As far as what the elevation stuff is in, when I first did it, I was
     
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      thinking feet.  While it would be fine to describe it as whatever, I
     
     think 
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      it would be useful as developers to be able to map it easily into earth 
     
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      measurements, so if someone says that is 1000', you could more easily 
     
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      grasp what that really means.
     
     
I ask specifically so that I could make sure that the elevation to
temperature calculation actually matched reality.  I have a formula at home
that is something like 100 meters of elevation subtracts 1 degree
centigrade  or something like that.  Since the temperature calculations are
in metric, I assumed that the elevation would also be in metric.

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      nice to associate a monster with a region, so it won't wander to places 
     
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      outside of that region (for example, you could have a greater_scorn
     
     region 

I had a similar problem in my Ice castle.  I wanted the ants to be limited
to a certain area.  This is what prompted me to fix some of the inv_checker
bugs.  The nightclub prompted me to fix the other inv_checker bugs that I
posted.


     
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