added lake tropic width adjustment
added an extra large setting to the coasts (51radius)
set minimum width for rivers and lakes to 2 (setting it to 1 actually CTD'd the game)
made max for rivers and lakes be 51 tiles to match the 51tiles of the coast setting.
I'd eventually like to add an Extra Large setting but manually creating the array of coordinates is horrible.
I wedged this setting in beside the setting for tropic width around rivers despite it not fitting into the rivers/lakes category because it still feels the most relevant place for now.
Prior to this change, lakes could be very small and could also not be deactivated.
This change allows the deactivation of lake creation and the lake size is now the set size +- 25% instead of anything between 0 and lake_size.
This better reflects what it is, and hopefully removes a bit of
the confusion people are having what this setting actually does.
Additionally, update the text on the setting to better inform
users what it is doing exactly, so they can make an educated
decision on how to change it.
Next commit will introduce an "auto" value, which should be the
new default. The rename has as added benefit that everyone will
start out on the "auto" value.
This is an indication value; the game tries to get as close as it
can, but due to the complex tropic rules, that is unlikely to be
exact.
In the end, it picks a height-level to base the desert/tropic
line on. This is strictly seen not needed, as we can convert any
tile to either. But it is the simplest way to get started with
this without redoing all related functions.
Setting the snow coverage (in % of the map) makes a lot more sense
to the human, while still allowing the niche player to set (by
finding the correct %) a snow line height they like. This makes for
easier defaults, as it decoupled terrain height from amount of snow.
Maps can never be 100% snow, as we do not have sprites for coastal
tiles.
Internally, this calculates the best snow line height to approach
this coverage as close as possible.
Basically, modal windows had their own thread-locking for what
drawing was possible. This is a bit nonsense now we have a
game-thread. And it makes much more sense to do things like
NewGRFScan and GenerateWorld in the game-thread, and not in a
thread next to the game-thread.
This commit changes that: it removes the threads for NewGRFScan
and GenerateWorld, and just runs the code in the game-thread.
On regular intervals it allows the draw-thread to do a tick,
which gives a much smoother look and feel.
It does slow down NewGRFScan and GenerateWorld ever so slightly
as it spends more time on drawing. But the slowdown is not
measureable on my machines (with 700+ NewGRFs / 4kx4k map and
a Debug build).
Running without a game-thread means NewGRFScan and GenerateWorld
are now blocking.
This means that for NE/NW, it should have one more in case of
freeform-edges, and in case of SE/SW it should have one less.
Reminder: freeform-edges only adds VOID tiles on X=0 and Y=0.
(cherry picked from commit 1d85d71d29)
This means that for NE/NW, it should have one more in case of
freeform-edges, and in case of SE/SW it should have one less.
Reminder: freeform-edges only adds VOID tiles on X=0 and Y=0.
Jonathan G Rennison
reldred
Andreas Schmitt
Patric Stout
Charles Pigott
SamuXarick
Michael Lutz
TechGeekNZ
S. D. Cloudt
JMcKiern
Henry Wilson
Gabda
J0an Josep