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Re: Strategic Map load in source code[message #339050 is a reply to message #339048]

Wed, 21 January 2015 01:23

Flugente

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Yoiks. Not trying to rain on your parade, but that would be very, VERY hard. For starters, all sector IDs are stored in an UINT8 - which doesn't take numbers higher than 255, thus does not allow maps bigger than 16x16. If you want to rewrite that, expect at least a week running over the entire code and replacing UINT8 with UINT16 (this will break the game in numerous places). As all enemy groups, mercs, towns, inventories etc. have sector coordinates, you have to remap those too.

An alternative would be to have a second 16x16 map as you intend - but then you still have to tell the code everywhere a sector is mentioned whether map A or B is used, basically in the entire code. Note that sector manipulation code is relatively pristine, you'll find undocumented, dubious code there that hasn't been touched for over a decade ;)

Loading an alternate version of a sector you already visited (to, say, simulate ongoing destruction/construction of buildings) would be somewhat easier (and often asked for in the last years).

I can't tell you not to do this (it is good that more people volunteer for coding on our beloved game), but unless you have a truly epic frustration tolerance I wouldn't recommend this.

Hmm.

If you are looking for relatively easy code in 1.13, I'd go to the Laptop websites or the trait system - there's simply enough of both to get good examples. Be warned, however, that 1.13 isn't exactly good C++, it's more C with a bit of C++ mixed in.

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[Message index]

		Strategic Map load in source code By: Drecouse on Tue, 20 January 2015 16:37
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Flugente on Tue, 20 January 2015 22:08
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Drecouse on Wed, 21 January 2015 00:05
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Flugente on Wed, 21 January 2015 00:27
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Drecouse on Wed, 21 January 2015 00:53
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: DepressivesBrot on Wed, 21 January 2015 01:17
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Flugente on Wed, 21 January 2015 01:23
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: CVB on Wed, 21 January 2015 09:57
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Drecouse on Wed, 21 January 2015 14:26
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Flugente on Wed, 21 January 2015 14:28
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: CVB on Wed, 21 January 2015 16:42
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: CVB on Wed, 21 January 2015 17:14
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Flugente on Wed, 21 January 2015 21:27
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Drecouse on Thu, 22 January 2015 16:31
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Flugente on Thu, 22 January 2015 22:11
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Drecouse on Fri, 23 January 2015 13:35
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: Drecouse on Thu, 29 January 2015 16:18
		Re: Strategic Map load in source code By: DepressivesBrot on Fri, 30 January 2015 00:23

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