Geometry

[quentinjcm]

to be honest, its a bit of a mess. I dont know how to explain this quest to you, but something needs to change. here is a list of changes:

• off centre geo (should be modelled on origin and offset in code)
• tree visual feedback (trees->stumps->clear)
• rubbish mountains (our god has forsaken us and build shitty mountains that aren't in keeping with the current visual style)
• things are a bit too smooth around here - need a more blocky visual style

[i7621149]

The issue with the terrain now is that it needs to be consistent with the interpolated height value from Grid. The trees stuff still applies. The mountains are still not so good. The blocky stuff is looking better i think

[i7621149]

The terrain geo should be taken wholly from the Grid class, using the interpolated height and the "m_terrainHeightDivider" should be part of the map generation, not applied after the fact, so that you're not dividing by the arbitrary variable all over Scene (like dividing the character height and stuff for drawing)

[bhawkyard1]

I agree, is there a way to change the terrain generation script so it generates less spiky terrain?

Generating the terrain geo inside the grid class should work, I expect it's possible just to copy the function into the grids namespace.

[quentinjcm]

A lot of this has been fixed now:

• trees now turn to stumps until the tile is cleared of all its trees
• mountain models have been taken out and are now built from the terrain in the python scripts
• blocky style is more present with tiered terrain
• the heights are now independent of the map script and the terrain building function, heights are now ray-traced from the rendered polygons at float 2D coordinates
• height dividing has been taken out of the program and is handled by the map scripts now
• all models are now centred on origin and appear to be drawing correctly