Topic: Fog of War

Hey guys!

Been playing Widelands recently and it is a lot of fun! Although I like the graphical aestethics of The Settlers 2, the gameplay of Widelands is MUCH better. However, I've been struggling finding a way to disable the fog of war when playing against the AI or multiplayer. I expected to find a button to switch between on and off, like in Return to the Roots. Maybe I am just too blind to find this option but if it isn't there, would it be possible to add such feature in a later version?

Thanks! Marlhin

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kaputtnik wrote:

A switch to turn it off during a normal game is not planned AFAIK. I think such a switch would also be unfair if you play multiplayer with other players.

On the other hand, if it was an ooption to be enabled before the match, and applied to all players, it would just add a tad more customization. And it shouldn't even be hard to code.

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You can always edit, add, files in Scripting/win_conditions folder to add more variety. Compare endless game and the fogless version, Editing any other, like collectors and adding

  -- reveal the whole map for every player

  local game = wl.Game()

  local map = game.map

  local fields = {}

  local i = 1

  for x=0, map.width-1 do

     for y=0, map.height-1 do

        fields[i] = map:get_field(x,y)

        i = i + 1

     end

  end

  for idx, plr in ipairs(game.players) do

     plr:reveal_fields(fields)

  end

then save as collectors_fogless it will then show up on the start new game page. To save the file over version updates store it in your overrides diectory, ~/.widelands on linux.

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It will work, if the script is manually copied to each player's widelands directory before the Widelands executeable is started and the game set up. How ever an automatic copying of the scripts to the other clients is not implemented (and from my point of view shouldn't be in the future as this would be an obvious security issue for installation of spyware, malware, etc.)

Making the fog of war an option in the game set up menu could be a good idea - after all having two sets of win conditions ( w/ and w/o fog of war) would double the amount of win conditions in the list without any additional functionality and by this make the setup screen more counter intuitive than the addition of a checkmark for fog of war would.

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For each player you can set also plr.see_all set to true

plr.see_all = true

Edit: Link fix

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