A walk through tunnel - The future of tunnel
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Tunnel is a great program and you can draw nice cave maps with it, but there are things it cannot do, and are under development.
The most serious drawback of Tunnel is that it creates only plan map. It does not create extended elevation maps. This is one of the top todo items.
Tunnel does not draw symbols along a path. Which is necessary when drawing a barrier of boulders, for example. This is another item on the development agenda: a necklace algorithm to place symbols along a path.
Other two items on the Tunnel development agenda are the replacement of the XML format with a SVG (scalable vector graphics) format, and the development of a printing facility.
When you compose the individual sketches to make the global cave map, the former are not modified, and you end up with a lot of outdated sketch files (the individual sketches). Tunnel lacks a way or managing these drawings. You have to employ a good file keeping policy in order to avoid confusion.
In spite of its limits, we believe that Tunnel is a powerful cave map drawing software. It is worth getting to know it and use it. Its main advantages:
- an intuitive drawing interface with a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) approach;
- an extendible symbol library;
- its xml-based data design.
