Topic: show building help and path construction layouts over buildings
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freem Topic Opener
Joined: 2012-07-03, 07:25
Posts: 32  Pry about Widelands |
Posted at: 2012-07-03, 08:17
First, sorry to post here, but I am having problems to register to launchpad (it says that the registration page is too old to be usable or something like that... "Votre page était inutilisée" \ "Toutes nos excuses, la page d'où vous venez est un peu vieille.[...]" so I can not use it to report bugs or ideas Now, about the subject. When you are trying to build a path behind big buildings (say, a fortress), you have to guess if it is possible or not, because indicators are drawn under the buildings. I guess that the building layout is the last one to be drawn, and so it hides every helps the player might have enabled. Out of this subject (but a little related to buildings anyway), I have suggestions for bug report 999181 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands/+bug/999181).
In short, add a minimum distance between military buildings. It will avoid the AI to flood it's territory with empty military buildings.
I am not sure for settlers II, but for settlers I, this rule exists (maybe they have faced the same problem PS: I have discovered widelands since many times, and always took an eye on it sporadically - because I really like settlers (and the first one, for some reasons I do not entirely remember) - and recently I have found that build 17. The work made is pretty huge, the game is much more stable than when I discovered it and I can at least play a settlers like game with decent controls. So, thanks a lot. Edited: 2012-07-03, 08:27
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hjd
Joined: 2011-06-12, 19:24
Posts: 164  At home in WL-forums Location: bugs.launchpad.net/widelands |
Posted at: 2012-07-03, 20:52
Hi, freem and welcome to the forums. I am not sure why Launchpad registration didn't work out for you, maybe try a while again later? I agree it can be a bit annoying trying to build roads "behind" large buildings. However, most of the time I just click where I want the road to end and then it will find a way if one can be made. I think showing the indicators on top of buildings would look rather out of place though. I guess an alternative would be to display the building in question (partly) transparent when there is something interesting going on behind it, though I fear that might require significant effort from the developers. Ships!
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freem Topic Opener
Joined: 2012-07-03, 07:25
Posts: 32 Pry about Widelands |
Posted at: 2012-07-05, 14:52
I just made another try with IE instead of opera, and it seem it works. I guess changes in configuration I made with opera on each computer I use block something... About transparency of buildings, it might be a good idea. The work needed will probably to change the alpha channel of buildings located near enough the point where the actual road is... No idea about difficulties, I did not look at the code but I guess widelands is quite complex
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