Re: [Rails-devel] Tile orientation display

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

To be honest, as a player, I don't care.  When I use CyberBoard and Rails, I
don't bother specifying tile orientation in text.  As long as there is a
system that can be derived from the log, it's fine with me.

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Chris

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:

> The currently ongoing discussion in the [18xx] group on how to describe
> tile
> lays is also of interest for Rails.  I'm in particular referring to cases
> where the Rails (TileDesigner) tile orientation (i.e., the tile number
> placement)  is different from the physical game. I just checked 1830 and
> 1856. The 1830 tile orientations are the same as in Rails (except tile
> #65),
> whereas with 1856 there are many differences.
>
> Take tile #23 as an example. The 1856 orientation of this tile is
> upside-down as compared with 1830 and Rails.  Now assume tile #9 has been
> laid before on hex O10 (connecting SW-NE) and is upgraded to tile #23
> (adding a connection NW-NE).  Now the question is: how to display this
> upgrade in the map window and the game report?
>
> The Rails tile has the number as in 1830, on the SW side in this case, so
> the upgrade is now coded as #23/O10/SW.  However, the physical tile would
> have its number on the NE side, so in an FTF game the upgrade would be
> denoted as #23/O10/NE.
>
> My question is: what do we prefer?
>
> I am thinking on adding an optional attribute to <Tile> in TileSet.xml that
> specifies the 'base rotation' of the physical tile as compared with the
> Rails tile (or vice versa). This 'base rotation' would then be added (or
> subtracted) to the internal value to calculate the displayed tile
> orientation.
>
> So, to make the laid tile in this example be described as #23/O10/NE we
> should add an attribute like 'baseRotation="3"'.
>
> Any need for this feature? Should it  be an option?
>
> Erik.
>
>
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