Re: [Civil-devel]A*

[Jan E. <ch...@in...>]

On 17 Feb 2002, Michael Earl wrote:

>On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 20:15, John Eikenberry wrote: 
>> This feature would be nice in general for AI development. My little
>> ascii maps have been a big help so far. It'd be very useful if you could
>> modify the display in some way. Like being able to mark each hex in the
>> open set for A* (helpful for optimization), or show the layout of the
>> influence map. Just the ability to change the color of a few pixils in
>> each hex would suffice.
>
>Most likely this could be done with just another layer in the playfield
>display... does the map editor already paint a dot in the center of each
>hex?  Possibly that could be adapted...

Maybe I should lear to read *all* messages before replying... :) Yes, the
map editor does that (see editor/mapview.py:109). I can add such a layer
pretty easily, but it we want to show costs etc I'll need some help.

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