Re: [Rails-devel] Tile orientation in 1835

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

> I could add a rotation attribute to the Tile tag in TileSet.xml which
defines the
> game specific attributes for each tile. This would allow to change the
> standard rotation of each tile for each 18xx title.
> As it is not too difficult it is possible to add that feature to the 1.x
branch.
>
> This rotation would specify the orientation relative to the base rotation
of
> Rails. 

That solution was in my to-do list a long time ago, but I'm afraid I have
since completely forgotten about this issue.
Of course, this change will only fix the tile laying messages in the game
report. The tile number positions in the tile pictures will remain as these
are now, except when the idea to generate these pictures dynamically will
ever bear fruit.

> If I remember correctly what Erik said in a previous discussion the base
> rotations of tiles in Rails were chosen arbitrarily.

More or less so. The initial set was defined by Marco Rocci in his tile
database, based on whatever principle he had (or had not) in his mind, and I
must confess that I haven't taken the trouble to achieve any degree of
consistency in my later additions.

IIRC, it is 1830 (v1) that has different tile number positions on two copies
of the same tile. 

Erik.