Well it's been an awful long time since I did any work on my MUD. Tonight I thought I'd write some test code to process a world map. I created a text file with two types of terrain, water and land. The base world size is 180x90, and for simplicity is an ASCII text file.
So I put together a class, read the file in, and then use a function to extract a localized map based on an x- and y-coordinate and a radius.
The first image here is the localized map, the second is a snapshot of the same area from the worldmap text file, with x=125 and y=25 and a radius of 5. I added a highlight to show the part of the map the client is localizing.
The next couple of things to do are:
- add more terrain types
- add ANSI color to make it pretty
- add more maps for ground cover, weather, etc
I haven't worked on this project for quite a while now, but I've had other things going on. Some day I'll actually have this thing up and running.
PS: The class that does all this work, both .h and .cpp, are a combined length of 100 lines including comments and whitespace.