[Wesnoth-bugs] [support #103718] Pathfinding UI not always clear

[Mihael Vrbanec]

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URL: <http://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?func=detailitem&item_id=103718>
Project: Battle for Wesnoth
Submitted by: Mihael Vrbanec
On: Thu 12/30/2004 at 17:22

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Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  1 - None
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Status:  Open


Summary:  Pathfinding UI not always clear

Original Submission:  Normally moving in wesnoth work very nice and intuitive. 
I recently encountered a case where it behaved silly although this was mostly 
my fault.
But Perhaps the UI-feedback could be better:
I chose a unit and moved the mouse over a field (castle) normally in range but 
now not reachable (and correctly greyed out) because of ZOC and deep water. Now 
footsteps are shown going over the water to the castle field. The deep water 
field is greyed out but if you do not look close enough you could think that 
the castle is reachable.

See the screenshot attached.

I would suggest to make this more clear for the user. One suggestion would be 
showing some red "you cannot go here" icon in the highlighted field (like turns 
needed to reach far away hexes).
Also the footsteps should never go over terrain the unit cannot cross imho. 
This is done correctly for hexes where a path could be found to but not for 
unreachable hexes. Hovering over a deep water hex also gives the impression 
that the unit could go on it because footsteps are shown.






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Date: Thu 12/30/2004 at 17:22  Name: wesnoth-move-ui.jpg  Size: 280.42KB   By: 
miq
Footsteps over deep water
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