[JASS] Blighting area changes ground texture

[Barade]

When using

SetBlight                takes player whichPlayer, real x, real y, real radius, boolean addBlight returns nothing

to manually blight or reset blight on an area it changes the ground texture to a different one.
How can I prevent this?
Is this a bug with the gound texture? Do I have to store the ground texture with GetTerrainType() before?

 

[PublishedShadow]

Pretty sure Blight is hard-coded to create dirt/rough dirt around itslef.

 

[LordDz]

That's just how blight works, it eats up the land and destroys it.

Why do you want to change it?

 

[Spellbound]

D'you mean like you want the ground texture to remain the same if ever the blight is removed? In which case, this nifty resource exists: Terrain Infection.

 

[Barade]

@Soellbound: Exactly, that's what I meant. So I have to store the terrain types myself? That's pretty annoying.

 

[Spellbound]

Well you could just use Terrain Infection to do that. I'm not particularly comfortable with JASS so I can't really help you use it, but the demo has a example of how to uninfect terrain. It's worth learning though - it's basically a creep system from Starcraft.

 

[Barade]

Now the infection system looks fine but it does not use blight. I could modify it but I'd like to do it myself. Right now I am trying to get a rect and to store each cell's tile point. Do you know how I have to store each tile point. Do I have to store each X|Y increasing by 1.0 every step or do I have to store each tilepoint with the size of 128 * 128?

How are circles realized? For example if you call:

 SetBlight                takes player whichPlayer, real x, real y, real radius, boolean addBlight

Does it basically blight a square and then some tiles at the edges to approximate something like a circle?

If there is no benefit from blighting a circle except that it looks better and makes more sense to the spells area graphic maybe I am just using a simple rect.