Re: CF: Re: Progress on random map generator? Incorporating the disease patches?

[Anthony Thyssen <anthony@cit.gu.edu.au>]

James Cameron on  wrote...
| Mark Wedel wrote:
| > But this does bring up an interesting point - should house A always be
| > randomly generated to the same thing, or should it be different each
| > time it is generated?
| 
| Another thought ... random coordinate inversion.  Flip some of the maps
| over a north/south, east/west or both line, during loading.  Certain
| maps that connect to others cannot be flipped, of course, or they will
| be inconsistent with each other.
| 
That could have a lot of problems,  larger opbjects like beds and tables
will need the individual map objects also flipped!

EG: flip map then reflip larger objects (beds), or individual images
to their oppisite number.

  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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