Remember this from B3 days? It is when bits of the map you have seen but now can't see (eg, you went round the corner or a door shut in your face) are still shown 'as you remember them' in a different colour (IIRC in B3 it was sort of midnight blue, here I was thinking to go for sepia tones, messed up, and now it's an unpleasant mud green) rather than just turning black as now.

So r6706 redoes fog of war. I really need feedback on this. The colour needs changing (when I can figure it out, this would be skin or player settable). Even so, I'm lukewarm to it now it's back. I'd make it an option at any rate (in 6706 it is always on to encourage discussion.

So?

EDIT: The colour was making me sick, so it's midnight blue in 6707.

Not everybody has that much mental capacity?

I'll check it out ASAP (busy for a few days).

I have not looked at this, but it was always a feature i missed, when it went away.  Personally though, i would skip the color, and just greytone everything. (IE: much like putting on a helm of demoneyes)

Excellent. What about b5?

Anyway, back on-topic ...

I like it Smacky ... I agree it should be an option.  Would be nice if the 'draw style' was also an option (i.e. which colour you want, or maybe grey-scale).

That way no one can complain!

I'm getting a small glitch in SG with the tree.

There's one. Then I walk into the apartments and it goes blue. Then I take a step foward and there are two trees visible - one real and one FoW. if you then move towards the portal, there are two normal trees.

I'm not sure if it's a wider issue, but I'll have a poke around.

EDIT: No can't see it elsewhere.

6715 adds two more scale options for fow, infravision, and xrayvision:

# 'scale_fogofwar' is the colourscale which is first applied to images in the
# fog of war. It may be 0 for none (the image is used as it normally is), 1
# for greyscale, or 2 for sepia tones, 3 for negative greyscale or 4 for
# inverted colours.

As this isn't actually an image manipulation program, that's probably quite enough of that.

Thanks.

Just to be clear (I am sure MT already knows this, but players may not), nearly all visual effects (fow, infravision, the funny colours of xrayvision -- but not the ability to see through walls, variable light levels -- except total dark) are purely client-side illusions. This means that individual players can modify them, which is how skins work.

Before, the player would need to hack the client code itself to achieve this, which was out of reach for most players. Now of course you just need to alter settinigs/skin.def.

So you can basically change foo_scale and foo_mask to 0 to have these special visions appear more or less normal. In fact they will always ignore light settings, so demon eyes with scale 0 mask 0 is pretty good for seeing in dark dungeons.

But what if you like to use skins but want you preference of specific colours. Easy copy settings/skin.def to settings/master_skin.def in your user directory. Edit this file to only have the preferences you always want. From now on these will always override whatever prefs are set by a skin.