Tall buildings - Page 2

DRG · #11 March 28th, 2018, 05:52 AM

The lower right building with the C0 and D0 units

RightDeve · #12 March 28th, 2018, 06:42 AM

Still shows high hills/slopes surrounding all buildings, only the "hills/slopes" graphics aren't showing (shows flat). Height values can be seen from the red info bar.

DRG · #13 March 28th, 2018, 08:11 AM

How exactly did D0 and C0 become vehicles?

This is all going down a rabbit hole I am not the least bit interested in pursuing at this time or in the near future. I am far too busy trying to get this patch out. It is what it is, live with it

Mobhack · #14 March 28th, 2018, 08:20 AM

I did not have time to get round to building height this year - probably next year I will put in a building height map layer for maps, which the code can read and so not reduce "tall" buildings back to the "default height" for buildings in the bit of code that fixes up maps data.

RightDeve · #15 March 28th, 2018, 09:07 AM

Thank you Andy!

Don, please take this height building off your mind for now, I am not expecting any height building this year anyway, so... regarding units becoming vehicles, I believe it has something to do with your new OOB (for the new patch) which is then translated to some other units on my old OOB. Probably.

Cheers!

DRG · #16 March 28th, 2018, 09:40 AM

You loaded it into MBT!!

It's clearly marked WW2 but those are LVTH6

RightDeve · #17 March 28th, 2018, 10:39 AM

Hahahaha.. oh well.. I'm really sorry!
But I'm not fully at fault here Don, this is SPMBT forum for pete's sake

Well at least nothing serious. I was truly afraid this unit-changing probelm might postpone the patch at least 1 year

Anyway, loaded the scen into SPWW2 and slopes are still around all building, without the slope/hills graphics, same as my past experiences.

Cheers!

shahadi · #18 March 28th, 2018, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Mobhack

I did not have time to get round to building height this year - probably next year I will put in a building height map layer for maps, which the code can read and so not reduce "tall" buildings back to the "default height" for buildings in the bit of code that fixes up maps data.

Years ago, we had a thread discussing placing troops within the building such that the building provides some "cover" as well as elevated LOS. I seem to recall, the code was in such a mess (we used to call it "spaghetti code") that it was deemed to difficult or not worth the effort at that time.

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Originally Posted by RightDeve

Finally another high-rise-building thread.

Smokes, lower buildings, lower terrain elevations, and trees, all can be overcome when climbing such high rise buildings. I have tested it in two PBEM with these buildings.

Interesting ideas to increase the LOS, especially useful in Urban Operations (UO) scenarios. I envision scouts and FOOs placed on high buildings and snipers as well.