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ZeroK-RTS / Zero-K

Open source RTS game running on the Spring/Recoil engine
https://zero-k.info
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Map feature visibility in the fog is slight los hax #4821

Open sprunk opened 1 year ago

sprunk commented 1 year ago

You can see trees being crushed, rocks reclaimed etc through fog of war. They are granted full visibility because they are mostly used as decoration.

I see three basic approaches:

1) perhaps they could be handled as a special kind of ghost that is non-transparent (though feature ghosts are broken atm, see #4783 ). The trouble here is that we might have to reimplement a lot of engineside handling (mouse-over raytracing for tooltip, rendering, etc) and the rendering better be top notch because of the "features are mostly decoration" thing.

2) engine-side unsynced units, described in https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/issues/644 .

3) lazy, make trees uncrushable to solve 90% of the los hax, to solve the silly dirt poof sudden disappearance, and kick the reclaim can down the road.

GoogleFrog commented 1 year ago

I am not hugely concerned about this so I wouldn't want a solution that compromises on ease of use. That probably means clickable ghosts that disappear when they enter LOS.