This uses Quads combined with Envelopes that are Synchronized to the game

I feel like tiles would be easier to reason with, was it only done with quads so that no client modification is required?

was it only done with quads so that no client modification is required?

Yes, also for old DDNet version compatibility.

Maybe tiles should be used instead and quads only for compatiblity with old versions?

Translating tiles into quads could be kinda heavy, it could produce bigger size maps (since a rotating square of 100 tiles requires more memory than just a Big quad), manipulation for each tile while moving could also be heavy, and we still are on the need of using quads, just in a more limited way

I don't think the quads style implementation is what mappers and players hope for when they think of 'moving tiles' -- in my mind, I imagine a tile-based system that not only supports envelopes but also switch triggers and maybe even physics bodies, which would be really difficult with the current map type.

For some tiles like freeze or tele, the quads implementation feels great, but not for anything else IMO

I don't think the quads style implementation is what mappers and players hope for when they think of 'moving tiles' -- in my mind, I imagine a tile-based system that not only supports envelopes but also switch triggers and maybe even physics bodies, which would be really difficult with the current map type.

For some tiles like freeze or tele, the quads implementation feels great, but not for anything else IMO

This Quad implementation supports Switches and Teleports by setting the Red and Green colors for Number and Delay (I assume that the quads in this layer will be invisible anyways), also would be heavy or even impossible to send physic bodies to old clients that does not support them in a good way, like old DDNet clients, 0.7 and 0.6, would need to break compat;

Seems like Developers does not feel comfortable with this implementation, so i guess ill wait until a decision is given: Should we use Tiles or the Quads implementation?

Anyways, ill push now the latest changes so others can experiment with them, collision with solid quads sometimes is still weird and there are bugs, i recommend using the client from this pull request since it has good prediction

Updated test map:
quadtest.map.zip

The author already tried to upstream it: #601