02-03-2004 15:35									#1
	Mapview Zooming Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

The Freeciv website is currently down, so I'll just post this here... Besides, this patch might need some testing before I submit it to rt...

Here comes an update of the zoom feature found in Teamciv. Use the numpad + or - to zoom. One zoomstep takes about one second, but will obviously take more on slower machines. The trident tileset takes less time than itsotrident.

The patch can be found here . Enjoy, and kill bugs

	02-03-2004 15:44									#2
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Here's a screenshot...

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	03-03-2004 00:24									#3
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That looks very interesting, how many zoomlevels does it support right now?

	03-03-2004 02:23									#4
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There's currently 5 different zoom levels, ranging from 25% to 125% of the default tile-size. Zoom-out is the most useful, since the graphics get worse as they get bigger than the default.
There's no limit to the number of zoom-levels there could be, but with many zoom levels it will take a lot of time to get to the zoom-level you want. This is because the graphics are rescaled when you switch to another zoom level.

	08-03-2004 04:05									#5
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Five zoom levels sounds about right. Add to that isomap support in Freeciv (see below) and we're pretty close to reaching the Civ2 goal.

http://lists.complete.org/freeciv-d...sg00031.html.gz

quote: > Freeciv savegames are all text-based so there should be no bigendian > bias. I dunno about civ2 savegames. The script is only for map files, although I'm working on the savegames. Civ2 maps, savegames and scenario files are all binary and, I assume, platform dependant. I don't have a mac and a copy of civ2 to test this on. Plus I am pulling out the terrain and river overlay by checking the high and low nybbles, which is going to break (?) on a bigendian machine. > Civ2 looks like it uses a "natural" coordinate system. To convert from > natural to native coordinates you just divide the X value by 2 and round > down (note this may break if you have a negative X value). This is what > map_to_native_pos does (though it's optimized). Good, cause that's what I did (and it seems to work). > Seems like you probably want to use civ2 for the rulesetdir? And set > other civ2 options from civ2.serv? Since these are only maps, I was mostly interested in the terrain. I figure I can always edit the file afterwards to use different settings.

only thing missing would be proper scenario support. The rulesets offer a lot of options already, but we're not there yet!

	06-04-2004 05:07									#6
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Yes CVS has isomap support already. '/set topology 5'. Here is the help:

Topology
The map topology index
Two-dimensional maps can wrap at the north-south or
east-west edges, and use a cartesian or isometric
rectangular grid. See the manual for further explanation.

• 0 Flat Earth (unwrapped)
  
• 1 Earth (wraps E-W)
  
• 2 Uranus (wraps N-S)
  
• 3 Donut World (wraps N-S, E-W)
  
• 4 Flat Earth (isometric)
  
• 5 Earth (isometric)
  
• 6 Uranus (isometric)
  
• 7 Donut World (isometric)
  

	06-05-2004 14:45									#7
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Vasc,

No, Civ2 doesn't have donut maps. CtP did have it.

Could someone post some graphical representation for all
these topologies? Sometimes its difficult to comprehend the more exotic topologies.