[crossfire] lighting & LOS redo.

[Andrew Fuchs]

On 5/22/06, Lalo Martins <lalo.martins at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> Having spent most of my last two working days implementing a colour picker
> :-P I must say I like the idea of hue/saturation; it's perfect for this
> purpose, as it completely describes a light colour.  And you can use one
> byte, wasting no bits, and have great resolution; 4 bits of hue and 4 of
> saturation is pretty good.
>
> Of course, people don't know how to write their favourite colours as
> hue/saturation pairs :-) but they can open up the gimp and get the correct
> values from the colour picker therein.

Or an implementation in the map editors.  This will probably be
requested frequently once the lighting code is redone.

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Andrew Fuchs