Request: LoS

[PTSnoop]

Yes, I know pressing 'l;' in game gives LoS view. But it doesn't work with shadows (and doesn't update particularly quickly).

Would it be possible to reimplement some sort of Fog of War widget that doesn't interfere with shadows? (Or maybe some way of faking shadows by lua, that works with pre-existing los mode?)

[oksnoop2]

I would also like this. Though I imagine there's a reason we don't have it.

Fancy Maps/shadows + LoS would be great though.

[smoth]

Why? Ssmf doesn't seem like it would suit your aesthetic and you could use blob shadows for so prettification in a cartoon style

[FLOZi]

Talk to knorke, he was working on such a thing, after a fashion.

[oksnoop2]

Last I checked blob shadows did not work.

[luckywaldo7]

There is a buggy los widget implementation already: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... 6&p=421839

(in case someone needs somewhere to start)

[very_bad_soldier]

+1

Beherith once said he was playing around with a shader that draws out-of-LOS areas in greyscales. Dunno what the current status is.

[oksnoop2]

I stand corrected. The widget i downloaded at the time did not include shadow.tga.

[smoth]

lol

[Forboding Angel]

I stand corrected. The widget i downloaded at the time did not include shadow.tga.

God forbid that you EVER check infolog for anything.

[knorke]

God forbid that somebody EVER uploads something with no missing files:
http://widgets.springrts.de/springinfo/index.php#100

---

my fog of war thing is not very good btw, it is pretty blocky:




(resolution can be increased but it will still be blocky)
on cliffs it sometimes looks strange due to terrain clipping through the "fog".
with the high sight distances most spring games seem to use, it does not look that good anyway.
I do not plan to work much more on the fog thing because I guess at some point the engines "L-view" should be improved anyway and for me boxxy fog is just right. For other uses it is probally not so nice.

Did not test it yet but for players the link from luckywaldo7 is probally much more suited and complete.
(hooray for having reinvented the wheel)

[bobthedinosaur]

how does this version compare to the engines los view performance wise (if at all)? the block los's from dos era games wasn't that bad, maybe something to smooth the edges would make it look better (although it is fitting for your blocko game).

[knorke]

well, just test it?
It has some impact but not that much. works fine on my oldish computer.
I had some players test it (during games of nota space bugs and such, mostly 16x16 maps) and nobody complained about lag. Dont know what kind of PCs they had.
Update & and resolution (tile size) can be adjusted too, I think for that games tiles were about double the size.
I plan for 8x8 to 12x12 maps anyway.

The big problem is how it looks ugly when cliffs clip through the fog. (it really looks quite ugly on some maps esp. when zoomed out)
Could work around it by drawing 3d cubes instead of 2d rectangles but have not tried yet. (would need more fps again)