[Rails-devel] Half-hexes for 1825

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

A while ago, Stefan sent me some half-hex tiles for use at the borders
between of 1825 units.  It is allowed to lay track against such borders, but
there was no visual cue that it was allowed.

I have now updated Unit 1 to use these half-tiles. It's still experimental.
At the top border (with Unit 2 and R3) it looks fine, but at the left border
(with kits R1 and R2) it doesn't look very pretty.  Try it and you'll see
what I mean.  Or check the attached image.

To improve this, I think we need a duplicate of the empty hex tile #0
(numbered e.g. #-25000), i.e. a full hex. The sole difference with #0 would
be that it cannot be upgraded.  
The downside would be that now users would see full normally-looking hexes
that yet cannot be upgraded.  So I wonder if we shouldn't give such tiles
(and also the half-tiles)  a different background colour, such as the "buff"
colour that is in fact used in 1825 for empty hexes.

Erik.