Re: [GD-General] spatial representation

[Kent Q. <ken...@co...>]

TreadMarks (the tank battle game from Longbow Digital Arts) has=
 an 
interesting solution to this -- an infinite terrain. As I recall,=
 it 
wraps after you get to one edge of the world. So you could, I 
believe, keep driving in one direction and eventually wrap around=
 
again to the battle. I think their model is toroidal rather than=
 
spherical, but you might consider that instead of just falling=
 off 
the edge of the earth ("Here be dragons!").

Another possible solution in a flight game (where, I presume, 
standing still isn't possible) is to have a force (wind) that=
 pushes 
you away from the world edges. It would be negligible near the=
 middle 
of the world, but get more and more powerful at the edges. If=
 they're 
always moving anyway, most people won't ever fly straight enough=
 or 
far enough towards an edge to ever notice.

=09Kent

-- 
Kent Quirk, ken...@co... on 04/07/2002


On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 04:32:11 -0600, Idahosa Edokpayi scribbled:
>I want to do a smallish flight combat game. Even though I only=
 want
>a small game, I want big spaces, or at least the biggest space I=
 can
>get using floating point variables. My reason is that I can't=
 think
>of any good way to force players to not wander without breaking
>immersion; so I plan to give them the largest possible space I=
 can
>and then just do something ugly when they reach the limit. I=
 tried
>to search the archives unsuccessfully (how does that work=
 again?
>GeoCrawler was unhelpful)
>
>Idahosa Edokpayi
>
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