+++ Ladislav Bla?ek [04-04-22 17:52 +0200]:
I do thing that the list of linetype/subtypes could be improved. I wanted to have a 'presumed' <something> where 'presumed' wasn't a valid subtype for it. This seemed a bit arbitrary - why can I have a presumed wall but not a presumed rock-edge (Something like that - I forget exactly what it was). It seems to me that nearly everything could be 'presumed' or 'invisible', and also perhaps that some subtype should be main types. We could usefully review the list to see if it still makes sense.
Presumed = presumed. It means that I presume continuation but I don't know what's the type of continuation. Simply I presume that it is "wall". If you know that it is rock-border, why you need presumed rock-border?
Because I am looking over an edge and I can see one side of a big rock, but not the other. The passage shape makes me think that this is a rock not a wall so the part I can see is 'rock border', but the part where it goes out of sight would be drawn as 'presumed rock border' - ie "- - -" with correct line thickness. Or I can see along a passage and one side is wall, the other is a big boulder. I cannot see beyond so both sides need to be drawn as 'presumed continuation', but it looks wrong if the rock side suddenly changes line thickness to be a wall at the point it becomes presumed. (this would be the case if I followed your suggestion above). Also what about the situation where the wall is made of blocks - so now it is 'wall, subtype blocks', but I also want to make it 'presumed' at the point I cannot see. I don't think we can have two subtypes, but there should be a way to draw this...(this illustrates what I mean about reviewing walltypes and subtypes. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/