Scenery over walker but under flier

[beetlenaut]

Is it possible to have a piece of scenery or item that covers a normal unit in its hex, but appears below a flying unit in the same hex? Are flying units drawn above layer zero?

[cephalo]

I bet you could design a flyer that would fly over such terrain, but I would be surprised if existing flyers were drawn on a different layer than other units.

[beetlenaut]

I was going to use a bat, but a modified bat would work fine. I just can't think of how to do it.

[SkyOne]

Is it possible to have a piece of scenery or item that covers a normal unit in its hex, but appears below a flying unit in the same hex?

Well, I don't think this is the best idea because this one fires after a unit moves to the hex, but how about:
- spawning a moveto event with [filter] type=something Bat, then remove and place the item/scenery-image (depending on the unit) as "image=" and "halo=" with [if] + [have_unit] + [else] tags... If the bat is on the hex, the x,y is "image=", and for the other units, showing the image as "halo="...

There may be a hint for a better idea on this Alarantalara's thread: http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 01#p493881


If I misunderstand your question, sorry...

[beetlenaut]

Something like that may work. I don't think halo is correct because halo images don't change according to day/night rules, but I think I could change the terrain layer depending on what was on it. It wouldn't be pretty during the unit's move, but it would work otherwise. It may be a bear to code, but Alarantalara's thread should help with that.

[Alarantalara]

Terrrain layers are static, you can't change them based on the presence of units.
You could add an event to change the terrain depending on the unit on it where the two terrains are identical other than the layer of the image.

[beetlenaut]

That's kind of what I figured would be involved. Thanks.