Reduced Visibility Table?

[Stan Shebs]

Lincoln Peters wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 15:18, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:14:25PM -0800, Elijah Meeks wrote:
>>
>>>Is there a way to make units less visible--submarines
>>>and spies, for example, that could only be seen by
>>>adjacent units (Even if the other unit has a visual
>>>range higher than 1)?
>>>
>>since reading this.... is there a way to let those units coexist with
>>enemy units in the same cell?
>>
>
>You can make any unit exert zero ZOC (Zone of Control).  However, the
>last time I looked at games that used this (which was before the new
>pathfinding algorithm was introduced), units still tried to go around
>invisible enemy units with no ZOC, even though they could not
>theoretically see those enemy units!
>
Heh, it's very messy coding to have a unit be there and not there at the 
same time.
AI, UI, plan, and task code should only ever iterate over the stack of 
images,
never over the real units. Action prep sometimes needs to know, 
sometimes not,
which is part of the messiness.

Stan