An alternative suggestion for the 'hard map edge' issue

[Guessmyname]

Could we just fade the map edges? It would look a bit less harsh, though we'd probably still need the 'map margin' thing to avoid the issue of units driving over the fading parts.

[Tobi]

The 'map margin' thing is actually the hardest part of the feature; the rest is quite trivial: addition of some variables to map's .smd to specify playable area, add some LUA callouts so map/mod gadgets can change map borders and that's it.

Adding the margin however is where the real work is because all engine code now assumes playable area extends from 0,0 to width,height. It's not too hard to search for width and height and decide in each case whether it should be map width/height or game area width/height, but searching for all 0s and possibly replacing them with game area position is a lot more work