Hidden undersea terrain (as in CtP1)

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Pedrunn

This would be catastrophic for the game


But it has to be saved in arrays otherwise how will i know where to put the volcanos and rifts?
Simulating the map creation?!? I Dont think so, too much work!

I thought you wanted the effect of CTP1 in the game so the deep terrain must look like shallow water, but it should be impossible for non deep water ships to enter this terrain, so you have to add one more dummy terrain that looks like shallow water but is in fact deep water, so you only need to add another dummy terrain with the features of water volcanos and another one for contnental shelf and another one...

So in this case you have only to replace water volcanos with dummy water volcanos, deep water with dummy deep water and so on no need for arrays or stuff like this, the map must be your memory.

-Martin

[Pedrunn]

Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
I thought you wanted the effect of CTP1 in the game so the deep terrain must look like shallow water,

Oh, it has been so long since my last CTP1 play that i cant barely remember what the game look like. Still I like to do things in my way and i think the ancient-renassaince people knew the difference of deep and shallow sea. They only didnt have radar to know how the bottom was like. So if i ever do this deep sea will be in the ancient-renassaince age.

Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
So in this case you have only to replace water volcanos with dummy water volcanos, deep water with dummy deep water and so on no need for arrays or stuff like this, the map must be your memory.

You are a genius, Martin! This is a amazing idea . It will totally solve the reloadslic problem

[The Big Mc]

Pedrun this may be the wrong time to tell you this but if you want I have got a mod you may be interesting all it is missing is some code to implement it but how about deep undersea mountains.

The late stage of ctp you can basically settle any were underwater the only thing that makes in interesting is trying to pick up goods. With underwater mountains a person would be forced to look for a clear spot in the ocean bed.

The only problem is that activsion never left a way to integrate these mountains in like trenches of volcanoes so we will need some slic for the.
integration

[Martin Gühmann]

The Big Mc actual we never tried what would happen if you use for two terrains the same internal type, therefore it could be possible to add a new terrain.

-Martin

[Pedrunn]

Where are the graphics for the underwater moutains?

[The Big Mc]

Right first thing first

Using the two internal types confuses the hell out of the game and you get volcanoes as rifts or what ever depending on terrain type you steel and which one is read last in the teran.txt as it forgets about the first one and uses the second one. Sometimes it can be used to advantage like my gaia bomb which uses the internal type dead to trick the AI into every time a nuke goes off to make a forest instead of a dead tile.

Pedrun the pics are at my house I will get them for you possible Monday.

What you want them as just the tile graphics or as a complete tile file.

[Pedrunn]

Just the tile graphics are ok.

[The Big Mc]

right monday it is then.

[Dale]

Straight from ADVANCE.TXT:

ADVANCE_OIL_REFINING {

Prerequisites ADVANCE_INDUSTRIAL_REVOLUTION
Prerequisites ADVANCE_RAILROAD

Cost 47870
Icon ICON_ADVANCE_OIL_REFINING
Branch 0
Age AGE_SIX
DeepOcean
KeyAdvanceAdvice KEY_GROWTH_ADVANCE_ADVICE
}

Notice DeepOcean

This enables viewing of the seabed. Just move that command to your submarine tech, and you're laughing.

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Dale
Notice DeepOcean

This enables viewing of the seabed. Just move that command to your submarine tech, and you're laughing.

No idea what do you mean, Dale. The problem here is that you can see the seabed from the beginning of the game and that this flag just doesn't work.

-Martin

[Dale]

Hey yeah, you're right. Silly me. Left over from CTP1.

[The Big Mc]

pedrun I got the underwater mountains for you.

enjoy

pc give me the code when you do it.

[Pedrunn]

They look so nice

How you make them? I am really surprised!

[SMIFFGIG]

They do look good Big Mc

Btw there is a post way back about 2 unused ocean tiles types from ctp1

not a good reference but there refered to in the "Color00.txt

COLORSET_COLOR 0 0 75 # Trench
COLORSET_COLOR 0 0 25 # Rift

hmm i should go and dig out that post
but maybe you could put these into ctp2 from ctp1 too. To make the ocean abit more diverse

[SMIFFGIG]

heres the thread:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=35230