Pavement Behavior/Placement Options

[TastyWheat]

For some reason pavement doesn't behave like a normal building. You can put buildings over roads and rough terrain, but you can't lay down pavement. I want to give some fairness to the game concerning subterranean units so I want to block them from emerging in these areas I can't cover. Can I change the pavement to cover these areas or would it be easier to modify the places in which subterranean units can emerge?

Also, is there a way to extend the pavement off the edge of the map or prevent subterranean units from popping up on map edges?

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

Welcome on tibweb.
Pavement is no real building. It's terrain and underlies the special rules of terrain.
I think you can only make pavement buildable on rough ground by editing the rough ground tiles (but i'm not sure), as the terrain inis (temperat.ini /snow.ini) don't contain a key which defines the type of ground of the special terrain tile (e.g. rough, road, clear, water etc).
Though it can also be impossible as pavement is an auto-LAT (means it's automatically placed with transition pieces to clear,grass... ground along the border) and auto-LAT terrain has some special hardcoded features (no ini keys for customization available).

Also, is there a way to extend the pavement off the edge of the map or prevent subterranean units from popping up on map edges?

Player and AI units are unable to leave the map, except a special trigger tells them to do so.
That's why you must have overlooked a free cell in the playable area of the map.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Nov 16 2009, 09:18 PM

[TastyWheat]

Thanks. By modifying temperat.ini I think I can at least keep units from burrowing through the rough ground. I'll experiment and see if I can pave over these tiles, but I definitely won't try to make transition tiles so that could be a problem.

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

I doubt that it's even possible to make pavement to rough ground transition pieces. Because rough ground is no auto-LAT, but a big terrain piece that consists of more than a single tile like the auto-LATs.

But yeah, you can simply add the key AllowBurrowing=false to the rough ground TileSet0035 in temperat.ini. (don't mix TileSet0035 up with TileSet0013 which is the auto-LAT rough ground, that can be replaced with pavement)

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Nov 17 2009, 01:31 AM