RE: [Rails-devel] Map status

[Brett L. <wak...@ea...>]

>> We could create full water hexes to spice things up a bit.
>> But to create nice coastlines I think we should follow my earlier 
>> suggestion to create a single image that represents the whole map 
>> with all details, including the preprinted tiles. 
>> We would still have the preprinted tiles as separate objects
>> (the current situation), but not display them on top of the map.
>> These objects would then only exist to define the possible upgrades.


>That might be viable for the long-term.  For now, I think I'll cook up some tiles in the Gimp or TileDesigner.

>Do we have any preference on what they should be numbered?


On second thought, there's a lot of extra stuff here that I wasn't accounting for.

I know there's some Alpha Compositing that can be done to provide transparency/translucency.  

I think I'll need to give more thought to the problem before we settle on a solution.  Thankfully, 1830 really doesn't have much of this problem. :-)