Any know how to thicken the borders?

[Ekmek]

I went through the code on a mad quest to find the width and came up with nothing. I was just hoping to thicken them about 5 pixels or so, because the thin lines can get confusing fast.

[Ekmek]

Well I dug around a bit since I know more about code. Searching on ShowPoliticalBorders

brought me to tiledraw.cpp & h

first the code appears to be

void TiledMap:: DrawNationalBorders(aui_Surface *surface, MapPoint &pos)
{
	sint32 myOwner = GetVisibleCellOwner(pos);
	sint32 neighborOwner;
	uint32 myCityOwner = GetVisibleCityOwner(pos);
	uint32 neighborCityOwner;

	if(myOwner < 0)
		return;

	Pixel16 color = g_colorSet->GetPlayerColor(myOwner);
	Pixel16 white = GetColor(COLOR_WHITE);

	if(!surface) surface = m_surface;

	Player *visP = g_player[g_selected_item->GetVisiblePlayer()];

	
	if (visP == NULL)
		return;

	Unit myCity(myCityOwner);
	UnitData *myCityData = myCity.IsValid() ? myCity.AccessData() : NULL;

	MapPoint neighbor;
	if(pos.GetNeighborPosition(NORTHWEST, neighbor)) {
		neighborOwner = GetVisibleCellOwner(neighbor);
		if(neighborOwner != myOwner 
		&&(visP->HasSeen(myOwner)
		|| g_fog_toggle // The sense of fog of and god mode is to see something.
		|| g_god)
		&& g_theProfileDB->GetShowPoliticalBorders()
		){
			DrawColoredBorderEdge(surface, pos, color, NORTHWEST, k_BORDER_SOLID); //EMOD- k_BORDER_SOLID defined in tiledmap.h as 0 and dashed as 1 its a bool?
		}

		neighborCityOwner = GetVisibleCityOwner(neighbor);		
		if(neighborCityOwner != myCityOwner) {
			if(myCityData && 
			   myCityData->GetVisibility() & (1 << visP->m_owner) &&
			   g_theProfileDB->IsShowCityInfluence()) {
				DrawColoredBorderEdge(surface, pos, white, NORTHWEST, k_BORDER_DASHED);
			}
		}
	}

	if(pos.GetNeighborPosition(SOUTHWEST, neighbor)) {
		neighborOwner = GetVisibleCellOwner(neighbor);
		if(neighborOwner != myOwner 
		&&(visP->HasSeen(myOwner)
		|| g_fog_toggle
		|| g_god)
		&& g_theProfileDB->GetShowPoliticalBorders()
		){
			DrawColoredBorderEdge(surface, pos, color, SOUTHWEST, k_BORDER_SOLID);
		}		
		neighborCityOwner = GetVisibleCityOwner(neighbor);
		if(neighborCityOwner != myCityOwner) {
			if(myCityData &&
			   myCityData->GetVisibility() & (1 << visP->m_owner) &&
			   g_theProfileDB->IsShowCityInfluence()) {
				DrawColoredBorderEdge(surface, pos, white, SOUTHWEST, k_BORDER_DASHED);
			}
		}
	}

	if(pos.GetNeighborPosition(NORTHEAST, neighbor)) {
		neighborOwner = GetVisibleCellOwner(neighbor);
		if(neighborOwner != myOwner 
		&&(visP->HasSeen(myOwner)
		|| g_fog_toggle
		|| g_god)
		&& g_theProfileDB->GetShowPoliticalBorders()
		){
			DrawColoredBorderEdge(surface, pos, color, NORTHEAST, k_BORDER_SOLID);
		}
		neighborCityOwner = GetVisibleCityOwner(neighbor);
		if(neighborCityOwner != myCityOwner) {
			if(myCityData &&
			   myCityData->GetVisibility() & (1 << visP->m_owner) &&
			   g_theProfileDB->IsShowCityInfluence()) {
				DrawColoredBorderEdge(surface, pos, white, NORTHEAST, k_BORDER_DASHED);
			}
		}
	}

	if(pos.GetNeighborPosition(SOUTHEAST, neighbor)) {
		neighborOwner = GetVisibleCellOwner(neighbor);
		if(neighborOwner != myOwner 
		&&(visP->HasSeen(myOwner)
		|| g_fog_toggle
		|| g_god)
		&& g_theProfileDB->GetShowPoliticalBorders()
		){
			DrawColoredBorderEdge(surface, pos, color, SOUTHEAST, k_BORDER_SOLID);
		}
		neighborCityOwner = GetVisibleCityOwner(neighbor);
		if(neighborCityOwner != myCityOwner) {
			if(myCityData &&
			   myCityData->GetVisibility() & (1 << visP->m_owner) &&
			   g_theProfileDB->IsShowCityInfluence()) {
				DrawColoredBorderEdge(surface, pos, white, SOUTHEAST, k_BORDER_DASHED);
			}
		}
	}
}

void TiledMap:: DrawColoredBorderEdge(aui_Surface *surf, const MapPoint &pos, Pixel16 selectColorPixel, WORLD_DIRECTION side, sint32 dashMode)
{
	sint32		x, y;
	maputils_MapXY2PixelXY(pos.x, pos.y, &x, &y);

	sint32 width = GetZoomTilePixelWidth();  // changing here got rid of the border
	sint32 height = GetZoomTilePixelHeight();

	y += (sint32) ((double)k_TILE_PIXEL_HEADROOM * m_scale);

	if (x < 0) return;
	if (x >= surf->Width()-width) return;
	if (y < 0) return;
	if (y >= surf->Height() - height) return;

	AddDirtyToMix(x, y, width, height);

	uint8	* surfBase = m_surfBase; 
	sint32  surfPitch = m_surfPitch; 

	
	uint16 *pDestPixel;

	sint32 num = k_TILE_GRID_HEIGHT - k_TILE_PIXEL_HEADROOM;
	sint32 den = height;
	sint32 tot = num;

	sint32 row = 0;

	sint32 startI, endI;
	if(side == NORTHWEST || side == NORTHEAST) {
		startI = k_TILE_PIXEL_HEADROOM;  // E - pixel headroom is the space on the tga above the square tileset.h has these values
		endI = k_TILE_PIXEL_HEADROOM + (k_TILE_GRID_HEIGHT / 2);
	} else {
		startI = k_TILE_PIXEL_HEADROOM + (k_TILE_GRID_HEIGHT / 2);
		endI = k_TILE_GRID_HEIGHT;
	}

	bool west = (side == NORTHWEST) || (side == SOUTHWEST);
	bool north = (side == NORTHWEST) || (side == NORTHEAST);

	for (sint32 i = k_TILE_PIXEL_HEADROOM; i < k_TILE_GRID_HEIGHT;) 
	{
		if(north && i >= (k_TILE_PIXEL_HEADROOM + k_TILE_GRID_HEIGHT) / 2)
			break;

#if 0
		start = (sint32) ((double)m_tileHitMask[i].start * m_scale);
		end = (sint32)((double)m_tileHitMask[i].end * m_scale);
#endif
		sint32 start = m_tileHitMask[i].start;
		sint32 end   = m_tileHitMask[i].end  ;


		while (tot >= den) {
			i++;
			tot -= den;
		}
		tot += num;

		if(!north && i < (k_TILE_PIXEL_HEADROOM + k_TILE_GRID_HEIGHT) / 2) {
			row++;
			continue;
		}

		if(dashMode && (row & 0x2)) {
			row++;
			continue;
		}

		pDestPixel = (Pixel16 *)(surfBase + ((y+row) * surfPitch) + ((x+start) << 1)); //EMOD change here
		if(west) {
			*pDestPixel = selectColorPixel;
			*(pDestPixel + 1) = selectColorPixel;
			*(pDestPixel + 2) = selectColorPixel;
		}
		pDestPixel += (end-start);

		if(!west) {
			*pDestPixel = 0; selectColorPixel;
			*(pDestPixel - 1) = selectColorPixel;
			*(pDestPixel - 2) = selectColorPixel;
		}

		row++;
	}

}

but nothing on pixels which I assume to be k_BORDER_SOLID or k_BORDER_DASHED

but in tiledraw.h I see

#define k_BORDER_SOLID 0
#define k_BORDER_DASHED 1

which looks like a bool. Am I missing something that will give me how think the line will can be? I'd like to make it an option Or even possible use a tga for the different angles (it looks supoprtable) so we can get ome of the nice border graphics that fans have created for Civ3.

[Ekmek]

Closing this thread since I made it so that borders can be mapicons