Logical road barricades

[Valiant]

Is there a way to detect road direction when placing road barricades, so they will not be placed like this?

[Zero]

Maybe those barricades were set up to expedite evacuation? Cars can pass, cops and national guard can prevent enemies and civilians on the side from overrunning the road?

[Valiant]

I’ve seen barricades that looked something like this:

Building |c . c| Building
Building |a . a| Building
Building |r . r| Building

where “|” is the barricade. Don’t know who or what they wanted to stop

[KA101]

Barricade author here, and not without calling functions normally used in overmap-generation, so I don’t know how cost-effective they’d be. So perhaps the barricades were moved aside, perhaps the cars were parked on the roadside, etc. Was aiming for a reusable layout there.

[saltmummy626]

I always assumed the cars were the blocking portion of the blockade and the barricades where just there to call attention to it.

[Coolthulhu]

Barricade author here, and not without calling functions normally used in overmap-generation, so I don’t know how cost-effective they’d be.

Hacky solution would be like 15 (not including compilation time) minutes of work - just re-get the neighbors and check if the road is N-S or W-E and then alter the numbers if it’s N-S.

A more proper solution would be moving mapgendata construction from map::draw_map to map::generate and then passing it (the mapgendata) both to ::draw_map and to ::add_extras. Then doing the above check for N-S.
This would be like 30 minutes of work, but would also help with ::draw_map having like 12 parameters and make it possible to easily add more advanced (location-dependent) extras.

[KA101]

[quote=“KA101, post:4, topic:9097”]Barricade author here, and not without calling functions normally used in overmap-generation, so I don’t know how cost-effective they’d be.

Hacky solution would be like 15 (not including compilation time) minutes of work - just re-get the neighbors and check if the road is N-S or W-E and then alter the numbers if it’s N-S.

A more proper solution would be moving mapgendata construction from map::draw_map to map::generate and then passing it (the mapgendata) both to ::draw_map and to ::add_extras. Then doing the above check for N-S.
This would be like 30 minutes of work, but would also help with ::draw_map having like 12 parameters and make it possible to easily add more advanced (location-dependent) extras.[/quote]

I originally considered the hacky solution but rejected it as I wasn’t sure how much processing-time it’d take to call those functions for a map_special (which are randomly generated during play, not during mapgen). I have lagbursts when pileups spawn, FWIW, so that sort of thing tends to make me twitchy.

[Chaia]

Why not make two barrier entries for construction, one N-S and another E-W? Or let one entry for road barrier, but ask in a pop-up in which direction it should be placed