Spring RTS Engine

heyya, im about to make a tool to make the creation of feature maps easier (i hope)...

so feature maps contain grass, trees/features and geovents.

i know mapconv doesnt like 2 red pixels places within 3-4 pixels of eachother, is there a safe distance (in Px) between 2 features?

and it doesnt like 2 geovents anywhere near eachother.

and i know you can have 2 adjacent grass pixels.

but what about the interaction between the three? can it take a geovent near a tree?

what about grass, i.e. can 1 pixel be a reddy blue colour and grass and trees will be ontop of eachother (probably not) but a blue adjacent to a red?

is there anything else not mentioned here that mapconv can't handle?
thanks alot
D.R

Dead.Rabit wrote: but what about the interaction between the three? can it take a geovent near a tree?

I've never had a problem with that.


Grass can go anywhere and touch anything.

Mapconv has a tendancy to crash if you place trees too close to the edges, say within 10px.

ralphie wrote:

Dead.Rabit wrote: but what about the interaction between the three? can it take a geovent near a tree?

I've never had a problem with that.


Grass can go anywhere and touch anything.

Mapconv has a tendancy to crash if you place trees too close to the edges, say within 10px.

Very true.

Mapconv doesn't like features right up against the edge

mapconv also likes turning single geovents in to a cluster of 8 of them for no reason (yes slope doesnt matter for this bug even using the 1 maxheight 0 minheight trick)

hunterw wrote:mapconv also likes turning single geovents in to a cluster of 8 of them for no reason (yes slope doesnt matter for this bug even using the 1 maxheight 0 minheight trick)

wow great plan, 8 geovents

The negligible height trick (100 101) has always worked for me. Although it's more of a compile issue than a feature one

ralphie wrote:The negligible height trick (100 101) has always worked for me. Although it's more of a compile issue than a feature one

^^ one of the best compiling tricks in the book. Use SMFED to set usable heights after compilation.