Minimap Tiles - Discontinued ground-type boundary-lines.

[mvgulik]

On the borders of the mini-map images the ground-type boundary-lines are not drawn.

Giving rise to messy looking oddities in merged maps.


Any chance this might be fixed ? (if there is an easy fix for it)

[mvgulik]

(op rewrite)

In addition ... I really wonder what the mini-maps would look like whiteout those ground-type boundary-lines.

Any chance to see two merged mini-maps of the same area ? One with ground-type boundary-lines and one without them. (preferably an area with lots of ground-type boundary-lines of course)

[Enjoyment_2]

(op rewrite)

In addition ... I really wonder what the mini-maps would look like whiteout those ground-type boundary-lines.

Any chance to see two merged mini-maps of the same area ? One with ground-type boundary-lines and one without them. (preferably an area with lots of ground-type boundary-lines of course)

new map

old map

[mvgulik]

Thanks.

But.
"New map" source ? ... The new beta client ??? (have not dared to use it yet. (also figure it uses the same resource/map files))
Custom client ?
Or something else ?

[Enjoyment_2]

modded custom client feature from not_a_cat

[mvgulik]

modded custom client feature from not_a_cat

Aha.
Got it.

[mvgulik]

Back to that "missing border pixels" case.
It would of course be nice to know if that "missing border pixels" case has a change to be fixed at some point.
(ie: updating/fixing the part that generates the map-images for the map-server)

[loftar]

I agree that it is an annoying problem, but it's not exactly trivial to fix. The problem is that, in order to render a particular mapcut correctly, all the surrounding mapcuts also need to be loaded, which makes the rendered cuts dependent on which surrounding cuts the client even has in its possession, which would somehow need to be made part of the caching key or something. I'm sure it's possible to fix, and it should quite arguably be fixed, but I'm not exactly sure where that puts it on the effort/priority spectrum.

[mvgulik]

I see.
Thanks for background info.

As priorities goes its of course one of the lesser ones.

PS: If one occasional revisits (ponders a bit about) a particular problem ... sometimes a usable/better solution, one has not thought of yet, might percent it self in due time.
I know. Easier said than done.

[mvgulik]

(Bump/Repost ... (silently added some additional stuff to post over time)

For some reason I ended up with a (Ender saved) map-tile image ... without boundary borders.
So looked up its counterpart ... and enlarged both of them a bit.



I kinda like it.

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Seems it not 'that' rare, as I found some another ones.




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Might as well do a simulate transparent border case (steps of 25%) ...
(is link to full image)
(Imgur silently converted the Png to Jpeg, blurring the image a bit)

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It seems to me that the ~75% transparency case kinda takes care of 3 things:
1) Makes the discontinued ground border lines virtually disappear (in most cases).
2) Shows more detailed for village, and ground art, related areas.
3) But also still results in some border lining between similar colored textures. (although probably less effective on similar dark textures)