Re: [glob2-devel] patch with improvements: brushes (6), fix AI cheating (2), explorers (4), other GUI (7)

[Leo Wandersleb]

Joe Wells wrote:
> > (i want farming areas)
>
> What do you mean by that?

an area brush i can strike over an area and automatically get checkerboard 
forbidden with the effect of clearing flags so wheat (wood) expands and all 
other get cleared possibly switching to semi-checkerboard as soon as expansion 
worked.

> > if i don't want my globs to go to some area i paint it as cutting it
> > off
> > makes the globs already in the area stay there.

cutting off=forbid the frontier only. not the whole area as this might be a lot 
of painting. nevermind :)

> > no effect means you click 3red on 3red. that would mean remove 3 red.
> > if you click with all effect or with little effect (3red on 2 red) it
> > takes the chosen effect.
>
> Good idea.  You want to implement it?  :-)

hehe! that would meen stop talking and touching code ...

> Actually, that's a nice idea.  A shape distinction would be easy,
> because there is already code for rectangles and circles.  Rectangles
> could mean adding and circles could mean deleting.  That would need
> only minimal programming.

how about little pluses and minuses in red/blue/yellow? that would be user 
friendly ;)

> The issue is that an explorer's hit points are an important part of
> its range.  The range of an explorer is food+hitpoints.  You often see
> an explorer returning from a long trip arriving at the inn with less
> than 10 hit points because it was starving on the way, even though it
> was fully healed when it left on its trip.

ok. i believe you

> > > Basically, I use 2.41 instead of 2 in one place, because 2.41 is the
> > > mathematically correct value.
> > in what place ecxactly?
>
> Search for “241” in Unit.cpp.  I have added a comment with the
> mathematical explanation.

for explorers going for some target this should not speed up things as they 
always will go abs(dx-dy) straight and min(dx,dy) diagonally.
for random movement=exploration this might speed things up.

> Don't have time to try now.  I had to delete all my glob2 stuff to
> make sure I don't spend any of my extra time on it for the next few
> weeks.

:/// that's sad news. i hoped to see a new glob2 guru.

> > now i found another problem: direction keys don't work anymore. i need
> > cell-wise arrow keys to paint forbidden areas on straigh lines.
>
> Can you describe this a bit more?  What used to work?  And what
> happens now?

nothing happens on direction keys.

> > > > ???? please clearify
> > > With my patch, when I set this environment variable, I have to hold
> > > down the control key while using the “scroll wheel” to change
> > > requested worker numbers.  The problem is that I don't actually have a
> > > scroll wheel, but instead I have a touchpad which simulates a scroll
> > > wheel using a small strip on the right edge of the touchpad.  This
> > > means without my patch I get *lots* of accidental adjustments to the
> > > requested worker numbers.
> > can this go into basic settings? environment variable sound complicated for 
> > noobs.
>
> You are correct: this kind of thing should go into the settings.  I
> don't know how to do that and I don't have time right now to figure it
> out.  But I desperately needed the fix, so I did something.

will see what i can do. that's one of the more ugly parts for my taste.

Also i will have to upload the new tiles and test for different dimmnesses what 
i would need new tiles again!?

Leo Wandersleb