Re: Terrain images proposal

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:

> Whichever one the designer specified last - just like properties and table
> entries. 

That's probably fine.

> The idea is that the cell
> only *has* one image; 

Well sure. I don't think either of us would dispute that.

> > But, I had thought that you were suggesting that whole rectangles 
> > (spanning multiple cells) simply be embedded into the map at given 
> > coordinates. Based on your response, I think this is not what you 
> > actually had in mind....
>
> What I had in mind was that you specify a roughly rectangular region of
> cells (yes, it'll have wiggly borders because it's made up of hexes) so
> that each one of them is clipped from the image in much the way hexes are
> already clipped from images. 

Right. I figured that this is what you meant from your previous 
response. This is reasonable; I see no real issues with it.

> The region
> stops hard at the hex boundaries, though.

I think this is the only part of your proposal that I was initially 
unclear about.

Eric