City.getView() With Elevated Terrain

[KINGTUT10101]

I noticed that City.getView() does not account for tiles on elevated terrain. It will only see tiles on level zero. Is there any way around this limitation?

[Jeremiah Stephens]

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function script:draw()
	local x, y = City.getView()
	if Tile.isValid(x, y) then
		x = x + Tile.getTerrainHeight (x, y)
		y = y - Tile.getTerrainHeight (x, y)
	end
	Drawing.setTile(x, y)
	Drawing.drawTileFrame(Icon.TOOLMARK + 16 + 1)
end

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IS there a way to get this working with script:update?

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function script:update()
	local x, y, scale = City.getView()
	if Tile.isValid(x, y) then
		x = x + Tile.getTerrainHeight (x, y)
		y = y - Tile.getTerrainHeight (x, y)
	end
	Drawing.drawText('X:'..x..',Y:'..y..',S:'..s)
end

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[KINGTUT10101]

I'll try this out. Thank you for the help. I must not have seen that command when I searched through the Lua Docs a few months ago.

[KINGTUT10101]

IS there a way to get this working with script:update?

[KINGTUT10101]

Thank you for trying to help again. However, I'm not sure if this is the right approach. Stuff like this can happen:

Do you have any ideas for how we could overcome this issue?