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From: graphitone
18 Jul 2011 20:26
To: ANT_THOMAS
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Hmm - so why block out large areas of the map at all - what purpose could it serve?
:-/
From: ANT_THOMAS
18 Jul 2011 20:36
To: graphitone
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No idea.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
18 Jul 2011 20:37
To: graphitone
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Nah, it's just the updated map plugin draws darker than it did before. So as people re-explore areas they'll all get darker until it's all the same.
From: graphitone
18 Jul 2011 20:41
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
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Right you are.
Carry on.
:|
From: JonCooper
18 Jul 2011 21:32
To: graphitone
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the black bits? chunks don't exist until someone goes there
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)
18 Jul 2011 21:35
To: graphitone
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Yes and no.
:S
That yellow 8px square in the center is the size of a 1x1 block... but it's actually representing a torch (which is much thinner than a block).
I guess you can say, every coloured square on the map is a single block, but it's colour may be different to it's actual colour based on having something on-top of it which is actually smaller than one block (torches, signs, doors, ladders, flowers, etc).
Oh, and also in-game the blocks are not solid colours, or sometimes not even close to those colours.
Still it looks like the new darker map images are improving things - if you head north from the Citadel until you reach another shaded area - the dark green in there is grass, which used to be coloured purple as you'll see if you look at the surrounding areas.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)
18 Jul 2011 21:41
To: JonCooper
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To be slightly more accurate, chunks don't exist until somebody goes nearby (at which point they are generated from the game's current algorithms).
However, the black areas on the map might exist as chunks, but haven't been rendered because they've not yet been visited/modified by players.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)
18 Jul 2011 21:43
To: ALL
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Oh, and sometimes a black area is just your browser/connection not loading the image for some reason - can generally be solved with a force-reload.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
18 Jul 2011 22:14
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP)
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Chrome (here at least) gives different results to IE and Firefox (when zoomed in), the blocks are blurred instead of square so some scaling/blending thing going on.
EDITED: 18 Jul 2011 22:14 by CHRISSS
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)
18 Jul 2011 22:22
To: Chris (CHRISSS)
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Bloody browsers!
:@