[SUGGESTION-UNCUT][#052] UFO chasing, is it above the sea or above the land?

[moriarty]

You know what? We could just use the corresponding globe texture. Maximum simplicity, instantly recognizable, future-proof (in case we see new globe textures... TFTD hybrid game, for example...

15*11 should be bog enoigh for the texture to be clearly recognizable, don't you think?

[Falko]

good idea
implemented this

[davide]

+5

[luke83]

A nice and simply solution

[Aldorn]

good idea
implemented this

Including directly texture of crash ground is... 

[moriarty]

what happened to this brilliant idea?

[Falko]

its part of a bunch of gui improvemnt i developed

• show "3: wounded" in stead of just wounded
• https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=2513.msg25395#msg25395
• "this thread"
• https://openxcom.org/bugs/openxcom/issues/524
• remove rank from inventory-soldier-name and put it into rank-icon-tooltip
• https://imgur.com/pD6semt (higher scale needed to see)
• inventory in base->rank icon jumps to base-soldier stat -> armor change possible (works with original scale)
• select armor in base-inv-window https://imgur.com/7YA6jU5 (higher scale needed)
• click on rank icon in soldier-ase-stats goes to inventory
• more than 10 I-see-alien infoboxes https://imgur.com/WSGPfLn
• no animation for infobox
• infobox for other aliens/psi: allow infobox for aliens other soldier see this turn (slightly different color) + different colors for mind controlled "soldier-enemies"
• infobox for soldiers here wounded/mindcontrolled/stunned/dead https://imgur.com/zQ3mwwN,vYy1Jvw

all put together in one number option
so if one wants to only have option 3 and option6 2^3+2^6 is your number
value 1 enables all
that is the "Options::guiSmallChange" part in the path to dogfight

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diff --git a/src/Geoscape/DogfightState.cpp b/src/Geoscape/DogfightState.cpp
index 3c0408f..a4ea6e6 100644
--- a/src/Geoscape/DogfightState.cpp
+++ b/src/Geoscape/DogfightState.cpp
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ DogfightState::DogfightState(Globe *globe, Craft *craft, Ufo *ufo) : _globe(glob
  _txtStatus->setText(tr("STR_STANDOFF"));
 
  SurfaceSet *set = _game->getResourcePack()->getSurfaceSet("INTICON.PCK");
-
+ DrawTexture();
  https:// Create the minimized dogfight icon.
  Surface *frame = set->getFrame(_craft->getRules()->getSprite());
  frame->setX(0);
@@ -1667,6 +1667,7 @@ void DogfightState::btnMinimizedIconClick(Action *)
  _btnMinimizedIcon->setVisible(false);
  _txtInterceptionNumber->setVisible(false);
  _preview->setVisible(false);
+ DrawTexture();
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1837,4 +1838,28 @@ int DogfightState::getInterceptionNumber() const
  return _interceptionNumber;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Draws texture in dogfight window.
+ */
+void DogfightState::DrawTexture() const
+{
+ if (Options::guiSmallChange == 1 || ((Options::guiSmallChange >> 3 ) & 1 ) == 1)
+ {
+ SurfaceSet *textureset = _game->getResourcePack()->getSurfaceSet("TEXTURE.DAT");
+ Surface *ilframe;
+ Sint16 xt1[4]={143, 156, 156,  143};
+ Sint16 yt1[4]={71,  71, 81, 81};
+ if (!_globe->insideLand(_ufo->getLongitude(), _ufo->getLatitude()))
+ {
+ _window->drawPolygon(xt1,yt1,4,_globe->oceanColor1);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ int texture, shade;
+ _globe->getPolygonTextureAndShade(_ufo->getLongitude(), _ufo->getLatitude(), &texture, &shade);
+ ilframe = textureset->getFrame(texture);
+ _window->drawTexturedPolygon(xt1,yt1,4,ilframe,0,0);
+ }
+ }
+}
 }

i am not sure when or if there is even a chance that such change will find its way into the game

Edit: as far as i understand it new features are at least on a long waiting list until tftd is finished

[Solarius Scorch]

Edit: as far as i understand it new features are at least on a long waiting list until tftd is finished

...now I like TFTD even less.

[Arthanor]

Oh darn.. all of these would be very nifty improvements on the basic games, quick to put in and improving the user experience of OpenXCom before the huge upgrade of bringing TftD. I was hoping there would be OpenXCom 1.1 and up before then.. Too bad.

[Dioxine]

Nice, vanilla friendly and ellegant (even if the interception window looks a bit worse) feature and all, but... the thrill of not being sure will be gone... Something will be lost... After all, IRL a pilot wouldn't be able to tell if an UFO shot down at 10km attitude will fall into the sea or not, if it happens within a few kms of the shoreline... I dunno, maybe I'm just getting old... But this is going be just an option, so let's just call it "casual mode" and not use it if do not want.

And yeah, I don't intend to play TFTD anyway, especially after Hobbes imported the best part of it (urban terrains), and Solar has imported most of the TFTD aliens. Although I support its developement, as it promises a single saving grace: potentially definiable special enviros (if underwater, then why not space? Low-G? all kinds of hostile enviros?)... if it gets broadly implemented instead of just glossing over it like Microprose did, that is.

[Hollow_Fang]

Great idea cannot wait for this and or movable air combat window.

[niculinux]

Bumping because a little and useful idea, very easy to realize, i guess?