[crossfire] Re: LOS and lighting map redo

[Alex Schultz]

Alex Schultz <
     
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One other thing to add to what I was saying:
On the technical side, I think that a reletively easy way to accomplish #2, 
would be, when the server is calculating LOS for squares, it should store all 
light sources that affect each square as a sort of list in the square. This 
way, all that the server has to do to check which light sources to send, it 
just needs to look at the squares that players have *some* vision of, of and 
concat (while ignoring duplicates) the light sources in the lists for those 
squares. This method may take more memory, but IMHO it is a easy to code and 
gives what is in my opinion the 'proper' results, and so far as I see should 
run fast in runtime.

Alex Schultz