Complex cave alias terrain -- layer & clip problems

[joshudson]

Well I'm seriously over my head

I've got this terrain composed of a base image that's clipped to its hex and the overlay image that I designed to interlock as if clipping were off.

However,

1) It's supposed to appear below cavewall and above units.

2) The self-interlocking overlay is being clipped to its hex

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[terrain_type]
symbol_image=cave/path
id=caveshadow
name= _ "Cave Shadow"
string=Ur^ZS
editor_group=SoW
[/terrain_type]

[terrain_graphics]
     map="
, *
* , *
, 1
* , *
, *"

        [tile]
                pos=1
                type=Ur^ZS
                [image]
                        layer=-50
                        name=floore
                        base=90,146
                [/image]
                [image]
                        layer=0
                        name=../effects/shadow60
                        base=90,146
                [/image]
                probability=100
        [/tile]
[/terrain_graphics]

I'm completely lost.

[doofus-01]

I can't say I really follow, screen-shots might be nice.

I once had a problem with layering. I haven't gotten back to it, but Alarantalara's post might help:

http://forum.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?p=426998#p426998

[joshudson]

Snapshot

[Eleazar]

Save yourself the trouble, and just make your overlay normal hex-shaped.

Layers are tricky at the best of times. It's likely that adding in custom terrain complicates the issue. But i can't help you with custom terrains. custom terrains.

[joshudson]

Already tried that way. If I get the layering wrong the result is bad enough to be worth removing.

[Alarantalara]

1) It's supposed to appear below cavewall and above units.

This is impossible: units are drawn above the cave wall when the wall is north of them. A shadow above the unit has to be above cave walls to the north by definition. You can get it to be below the cave walls to the south, south-east and south-west.

2) The self-interlocking overlay is being clipped to its hex

This occurs because you have the image tag for for overlay within the tile tag. Move it outside that tag into the main terrain_graphics tag and it will be clipped to the larger area you defined instead of the tile. You will need to add center=x,y argument to put your overlay in the right place however.

[joshudson]

Thanks. That brought me a bit closer.

I may decide I can get away with fudging it a bit by applying a similar overlay to the cavewall.

If I use black at 50% transparent nobody will notice.