Line of sight

Donald Jonker · June 6, 2009, 21:53

I still don't understand why *bands handle line of sight the way they do. The simplest, and most sensible thing to do, IMO, would be to make anything visible targetable. Until recently I assumed this was prevented for some vague benefits to the game's tactics. Then I played a few games of Crawl, which has better tactical depth and visible=targetable.

Is it just tradition? Preservation of hockey-stick/antisummon corridors?

zaimoni · June 7, 2009, 01:15

Even with the recent advances (Tyrecius' Permissive Field of View, RGRN/Roguebasin), I had a very noxious time implementing projectable==visible in Zaiband. (There are a couple of asserts that are disabled, as they are empirically harmless to fail.)

Basically, V's line-of-sight calculations correspond only to what looks good; there's no paths behind it in the current implementation. The flag that is supposed to provide paths according to line-of-sight was never implemented, even though it looked like a good idea in 1997(?).

June 6, 2009, 21:53	#1
Donald Jonker Knight Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 593	Line of sight I still don't understand why *bands handle line of sight the way they do. The simplest, and most sensible thing to do, IMO, would be to make anything visible targetable. Until recently I assumed this was prevented for some vague benefits to the game's tactics. Then I played a few games of Crawl, which has better tactical depth and visible=targetable. Is it just tradition? Preservation of hockey-stick/antisummon corridors? __________________ Bands, / Those funny little plans / That never work quite right. -Mercury Rev

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June 7, 2009, 01:15	#2
zaimoni Knight Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 590	Even with the recent advances (Tyrecius' Permissive Field of View, RGRN/Roguebasin), I had a very noxious time implementing projectable==visible in Zaiband. (There are a couple of asserts that are disabled, as they are empirically harmless to fail.) Basically, V's line-of-sight calculations correspond only to what looks good; there's no paths behind it in the current implementation. The flag that is supposed to provide paths according to line-of-sight was never implemented, even though it looked like a good idea in 1997(?).

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