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Orcs vs. Martians development saw tremendous progress in July. What a difference a month can make. Some tasks done:

• improved shadows.
• hid dirt mounds on buildings.
• rendered “move-to” destinations on the terrain.
• improved ease of selecting small objects.
• fixed wrong player colors in some replays.
• fixed jump-to-event camera motion.
• fixed weapon positions in unit portraits.
• made shift-clicking in the Details view de-selects the unit.
• rendered bases in the replay as true bitmaps.
• improved the Load & Save Replay dialogs.
• added support for random tile sets.
• added an alert when a player is spotted for the first time.
• made hud highlite newly-spotted upgrades.
• fixed display of roads and planned roads.
• made AI players able to pave roads!
• fixed a crash when switching to fullscreen.
• fixed Results graphs falling below zero.
• added a logarithmic mode to Results graphs.
• showed best windmill spots nearby, while planning a new base.

I shortened my main task list by 28 items, and also completed a few tasks not on the list. Sixteen check-ins to Perforce.

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On to August.

A.I. tower placement is coming along pretty well. The frontier-walker code is now tracking sub-frontiers correctly. I’m excited!

After my last post, I’ve since realized that the graph formed by the passages & intersections in the terrain is not a directed graph - it’s just a plain old graph. What was I thinking? Terrain passages correspond to Edges, and intersections correspond to Nodes. It’s a nice, straightforward mapping.

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