[CF-Devel] Weather level 5 (Re: Weather needs smoothing)

Fri Aug 6 02:08:51 CDT 2004

On 06-Aug-2004 

     mikeeusa at caethaver2.ath.cx

      wrote:
>

      only 2 problems are snow as weather dosn't smooth for some reason and the

     >

      equator is_

     >

      in the middle. How would I set the equator to the bottom of the bigworld?

Hrmm.. it's been awhile..  Oh.. here we are..  You basically want to write a
new version of weather.c:polar_distance()

Basically it determines how far a given x,y is from the equator.  You would
simply change it to return something based only on the y value, rather than the
stuff it does now to calculate the diagonal equator.  Change that one function,
and you have a new equator.

>

      Feathering_

     >

      sounds like a good solution to the elevation hole problem. Another thing that

     >

      could_

     >

      be done is a script that parses the worldmaps (perl yay) and if it finds say

     >

      a_

     >

      mountain tile with no elevation if it is a highmountain it makes it

     >

      elevation_

     >

      10000-12000 or so etc and do this with hills too and posibly grass etc._

I had some perl scripts that would backpatch the elevation from an old copy of
the map that still had it.  However if you've added a new mountain, you will
basically have to manually edit it, or do something like you suggest with the
script basing it off the terrain.

The feathering doesn't work at all.  You would have to fix that routine, and
that is not a simple task.  It is currently commented out from weather_effect().

---
Tim Rightnour <

     root at garbled.net

     >
NetBSD: Free multi-architecture OS 

     http://www.netbsd.org/

NetBSD supported hardware database: 

     http://mail-index.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/hw.cgi

_______________________________________________
crossfire-devel mailing list

     crossfire-devel at lists.real-time.com

     https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/crossfire-devel