Settlers-like terrain representation

Question

Remember this beauty? I'm playing it now on my old Amiga 1200.

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My question is: How do you think they represented the terrain, data structure wise? Obviously it's some kind of points, with a height. Or hexagons. And how did they decide which dots were buildable?

EDIT: I could rephrase the question to say "how do I achieve this kind of terrain", but I would still only be interested in how to do it on a machine with 1 MB of RAM and a 7 Mhz processor, because this is the machine i currently developing games for. If that seems like a vague or meaningless question to you, that's alright, but I'm still curious if someone has any knowledge about this.

You may want to rephrase the question. See this answer about how to do that: http://meta.gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/628/7191 — House, Jul 20 '12 at 21:48
@Byte56: I agree that his original question could have used more details, but well, the title does say "Settlers-like"... — voithos, Jul 21 '12 at 07:22

HenryHey · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-25T14:15:59.930

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You could check Widelands, it's an open source remake of Settlers and they have a wiki page where they explain how they made the terrain.

edited Jul 25 '12 at 14:15

answered Jul 25 '12 at 06:34

HenryHey

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Here the correct link for the wikiPage with all images: http://wl.widelands.org/docs/lua/geometry/ – MatterGoal Jul 25 '12 at 11:55

Settlers-like terrain representation

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