On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:47:24PM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Mark Mielke wrote: > > The galaxy is 100,000 units (GWIDTH) wide and tall. The cloaker > > position is given as up to +/- 1,000 of the actual location. The > > "size" of the "strategic and tactical windows" (GWINSIDE/TWINSIDE) is > > 500 pixels. As far as I am aware, a Netrek distance 'unit' is exactly > > one tactical window pixel size. Clients without 'enhancements' only > Nope. Think about is this way, if the galactic is 100,000 units and 500 > pixels, than each galactic pixel is 200 units wide. +-1000 units for cloaker > positions is 5 pixels in either direction. Hmm... sorry... Does this not still lean towards the left or up, simply because of rounding? Should the client perform better rounding than stripping the remainder? Or is it fixed in stone, and we wouldn't want to change it? mark -- mark at mielke.cc/markm at ncf.ca/markm at nortelnetworks.com __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/