RE: [Rails-devel] Tile laying.

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Erik Vos wrote:

> My real preference would be to leave this until someone
> manages to create a full map, which can act as a background
> (on top of which we would NOT draw the preprinted tiles).
>
> But I realise that that may be ahead of us for a long time.
>
> Marco's Tile Designer does not yet allow for creating tiles
> with such special symbols (and we don't have the source code).
> So your second option is the only one we can realise on short term.

My tile rendering code supports arbitrary annotations, although currently 
defined only using PS code so would need some work to draw on the screen.

> Problem is, that such symbols, if drawn on a fixed position in the tile,
> may overlap preprinted track or cities, but I guess we could live with that.

The tile definition has to include where to draw such annotations.

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