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Development => Patches & Projects => Topic started by: Nazalassa on June 29, 2026, 10:59:06 AM

Title: Change direction of player color 'stripes' for halts with multiple owners
Post by: Nazalassa on June 29, 2026, 10:59:06 AM
Instead of horizontal bands, this patch draws vertical bands. When many players share a halt, horizontal lines make the text hard to read.

Old:
stripes-h.png

New:
stripes-v.png
Title: Re: Change direction of player color 'stripes' for halts with multiple owners
Post by: Isaac Eiland-Hall on June 29, 2026, 08:47:05 PM
So if one was careful before, one could make a few country flags out of this. Now, one can make *different* country flags from this :)
Title: Re: Change direction of player color 'stripes' for halts with multiple owners
Post by: prissi on June 29, 2026, 11:46:49 PM
I think this goes also better with the text. OR maybe we shoudl made it configurable.
Title: Re: Change direction of player color 'stripes' for halts with multiple owners
Post by: prissi on June 30, 2026, 08:13:41 AM
So now you have the choice, horzizontal or vertical in r12050
Title: Re: Change direction of player color 'stripes' for halts with multiple owners
Post by: Nazalassa on June 30, 2026, 10:54:01 AM
In display settings the checkbox does not change state when clicked (otherwise it works fine).

Also, regarding the little permission rectangles above station names, I think I like the previous display more; with the new way there is no gap between the different rectangles and it scales weirdly when zooming/dezooming.
Title: Re: Change direction of player color 'stripes' for halts with multiple owners
Post by: prissi on June 30, 2026, 01:18:40 PM
The width was indeed only working for one size and looked wrong with different font sizes, true. r12051 should address this.

The gap felt wrong to me. Also, I found it easier in my testgames when there was a constant width for all halt with a share. Otherwise, shares between just two players (especially with darker colors) were harder to find compared to larger multishares. Maybe it is a matter of taste, I fear.
Title: Re: Change direction of player color 'stripes' for halts with multiple owners
Post by: Isaac Eiland-Hall on June 30, 2026, 09:27:00 PM
What other game would give you an option for such a thing? lol. Awesome. :)