Danjen02
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I'm curious how these were programmed. They change appearance based on how many adjacent rivers there are, so there must be a large number of combinations, and I was wondering what the most efficient way to implement something like this was.

I'm working on a simple puzzle game, and the walls behave very similarly, and I anticipate 54 unique combinations (not 64, oddly enough...), and there's no way you'd do a check for each combination, there's gotta be a simpler way.

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Danjen02 wrote:
I'm curious how these were programmed. They change appearance based on how many adjacent rivers there are, so there must be a large number of combinations, and I was wondering what the most efficient way to implement something like this was.

Simply by checking the six adjacent squares, and drawing up to six partially-overlapping patches of water.

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I feel really stupid for thinking of this and then dismissing it as "too complex". Thanks Radiant!

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