#8 2D World

[Paul Hatcher]

The tile view that we have ingame right now seems to
me to be very static and uninteresting. A little
while back I got into playing Sid Meier's
Civilizations III and I thought "How interesting the
map is". So I thought I'd try and duplicate it. What
I got was a clean, fast and (most importantly)
interesting new view. I have included the results.

Using a design like this has two drawbacks that I can
see: 1) We will have to recreate the ground graphic
(this isn't really hard, I created 5 tiles in about 30
minutes from the old ones) and 2) The tile files will
be conciderable larger than before. I am confident
this can be streamlined for mazimum download speed.

Like always there are a couple of helpful batch files
to compile and run.

[Paul Hatcher]

2D Tile Test