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• General discussions in English » Annoying map borders about maps whose left and right borders are extremely close to the coasts
There are some maps whose left and right borders are extremely close to the very left/right "coasts" of the island. For example, the new "chess" map.
This is very annoying, because:
1. You must be extremely careful when flying (with jetpack) near at one of the borders, because if you accidently fly just some pixels too far away, you die!
2. If you want to hit a place near these borders with an airstrike, the air plane throws the rockets way too late and it misses the target
3. The homing missile can't be shot very far away left or right of the island because it will just disappear then.
If we just move the map borders a bit away from the island then everything will be allright. Then we have enough space for air strikes, homing missiles and jet packs.
It should be enough to just add these lines of code to the "config.xml" of the "bad border" maps.
Code :
Okay, this is just a rough first idea to solve this problem but it works fine for the chess map.
I am very sure there are better solutions for this. ;-)
This is very annoying, because:
1. You must be extremely careful when flying (with jetpack) near at one of the borders, because if you accidently fly just some pixels too far away, you die!
2. If you want to hit a place near these borders with an airstrike, the air plane throws the rockets way too late and it misses the target
3. The homing missile can't be shot very far away left or right of the island because it will just disappear then.
If we just move the map borders a bit away from the island then everything will be allright. Then we have enough space for air strikes, homing missiles and jet packs.
It should be enough to just add these lines of code to the "config.xml" of the "bad border" maps.
Code :
<add_pad>1</add_pad>
<point name="upper_left_pad" x="3000" y="1000" />
<point name="lower_right_pad" x="3000" y="0" />
Okay, this is just a rough first idea to solve this problem but it works fine for the chess map.
I am very sure there are better solutions for this. ;-)
That's great, thanks Wuzzy !
I'll update the config file of chess map with this modification.
I'll update the config file of chess map with this modification.
Yeah, it was just a rough idea. I've seen similar lines of code in the config.xml of "Desert" so I tried them out. I don't really know what exactly they mean nor did I find anything helpful in the documentation. Can you please explain me what exactly these lines of code actually mean (and the numbers)? *g*
I tested the maps from 0.9.1, not including bonus maps, and following maps have all too small borders (which means either the air strike fails and/or you don't have enough space for a good auto-bazooka shot):
The Arcade Room borders just "cut" the map at the left and right. You can't just shift the borders because then you will see some half diamonds which will look just ... ugly.
What could be done that these diamonds will be redrawn but actually my painting skills really suck. 
Otherwise we just have to live with the fact that the airstrike will fail on this map.
I tested the maps from 0.9.1, not including bonus maps, and following maps have all too small borders (which means either the air strike fails and/or you don't have enough space for a good auto-bazooka shot):
- Country
- Chess
- Lonely Island
- Monkey-Bubble
- Montagnes
- Paint
- Arbres
- Bankiz
- Construction
- Farm
- Frog
- Oktopus
- Random Amoebas
- Random Island
- Arcade Room
The Arcade Room borders just "cut" the map at the left and right. You can't just shift the borders because then you will see some half diamonds which will look just ... ugly.
What could be done that these diamonds will be redrawn but actually my painting skills really suck. Otherwise we just have to live with the fact that the airstrike will fail on this map.
That's a feature I asked. It add borders arround map.png (in px). the goal is to decrease png size (MB)
Maybe a border should be automatically and systematically added for map that are not marked as closed ?
borders depends of map size. If the sky is too small compare to borders there is problems. In some maps there is only borders on left and right, no border on top...
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