Building placing

[abral]

I was thinking about how to place correctly a building over a terrain with different heights (I'm starting to code my own rts), so I tried to see how 0A.D. did with this problem.

But this is the result:

[Ykkrosh]

Yeah, that's definitely not good - it's just something we haven't implemented yet . The current plan is just to flatten the terrain underneath the building (and forbid construction on strong slopes so that there's not a lot to flatten - there could be a maximum of e.g. 1 metre height variation in the tiles underneath the building). Hopefully that'll be adequate.

[abral]

Thanks for the reply, this'll help also me!

However I've seen also another way to solve this (i think i saw it in Warcraft III): where there is the height variation, they show under the building a sort of pedestal.

[Pureon]

It's possible to do, just involves adding foundations to each building model. Here's an extreme foundation example.

[Kimball]

I usually add a foundation to my buildings. The only problem that remains is that terrain decals (such as corral mud and general dirt) still render at the base, and will still stick out like they do in that first screenshot.

[Ykkrosh]

Yeah, terrain decals are definitely something we need - shouldn't be terribly complex so I think it's safe to work on the assumption that we'll have them eventually