Drawing a Threat map

[Fengshui]

Hi I was wondering what the best (simplest) way would be to draw the threat map my AI is using onto the actual game map. I noticed in the aiCallback there are some draw line etc. funtions should I use these to draw my threat map? I was thinking of either drawing the threat grid and having it be different color and darker or lighter based on the influence in the grid cell. Or/also drawing the threat cirlce generated by individual units. If anyone has any advice on how to do either that would be great!

[Kloot]

To draw your grid cells the CreateLineFigure() callback is
probably the most useful (just have it draw lines equal in
width to the cells themselves), for coloring them by their
threat-values you could call SetFigureColor(). Circles are
trickier though, you'll have to combine a bunch of splines
if you really need them (or let your AI run some Lua draw
callins).

[Fengshui]

Thanks for the adivce, I have a nice little threat map now. The one problem I am having is I don't understand how the setFigureColor() parameters work, they are RGBA and I assume they are from 0-255 but when I try to set them to values in this range they behave strangely (darker when I would expect them to be lighter). Could someone please explain what mistake I am making here I am too tired to figure it out

[SinbadEV]

Not sure but quite a few of the colour values use 0.0 to 1.0 as their range... at least give it a try.

[Fengshui]

Yeah that seems to be the problem, I was confused because I was feeding it numbers like say 100 then 100.5 so it seemed to work but then when it hit 101 it restarted the scale. Keeping the values between 0 and one fixed the weirdness. thanks!