[engine] Geodic Maps
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- DEATH_is_undead
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
[set_menu_item] with a scroll to?Insinuator wrote: Why? As has been pointed out, a "faux" limitless map can be created but it would look just like any other map. You CAN NOT (as far as I know) scroll to the edge of any Wesnoth map and wraparound. That's really the biggest point of a spherical/torus map.
Edit: I know it's not the same, but it is a workaround.
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
I'm pretty sure he means that when you reach the edge, you actually just keep scrolling and it wraps around to the other side of the map. So you can keep scrolling infinitely in one direction, and keep looping around the map. That can't be done in wesnoth.
And besides, IMHO a right click option would be more of a pain to use than just manually scrolling to the other side, or just clicking on the minimap to scroll there. Too many clicks.
And besides, IMHO a right click option would be more of a pain to use than just manually scrolling to the other side, or just clicking on the minimap to scroll there. Too many clicks.
Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
Sorry that I still didn't get to read the replies here. Instead I post some links concerning to that matter. (next fail?)
This remind me to a reply above about "you can't create a sphere from hexagons w/o additional triangles"
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2227/176 ... 0529_b.jpg
Same matter though another game: http://forums.civfanatics.com/archive/i ... 54148.html
inspirativ though not pure/regular hexagon sphere: http://www.wrfportal.org/CIRA-Magazine-GIMTool.pdf
if they could use only hexagons they would have done it.
tools for spheres: http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/m_s ... _grid.html
sorry for brief/incomplete reply.. bye
This remind me to a reply above about "you can't create a sphere from hexagons w/o additional triangles"
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2227/176 ... 0529_b.jpg
Same matter though another game: http://forums.civfanatics.com/archive/i ... 54148.html
inspirativ though not pure/regular hexagon sphere: http://www.wrfportal.org/CIRA-Magazine-GIMTool.pdf
if they could use only hexagons they would have done it.
tools for spheres: http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/m_s ... _grid.html
sorry for brief/incomplete reply.. bye
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
Hi! Sorry that I did anspwer so lately/rarely.Shinobody wrote:I'll make myself clear.
If you mean "limitless" like "infinite", then no.
If you mean "limitless" like "practically without borders", so like map would be put on surface of a torus, to allow unit walk by straight from ACTUAL left border to ACTUAL right border, then yes.
Yes, limitless doesn't mean infinite here.
Simple connecting the opposited borders (sorry if my grammar/vocabular hurt would make the world (map) limitless though the Wesnoth-Worlds won't get geodic w/o additional conditions. I think two hexagonal map with linked map borders should do the trick while each hexmap represents a single hemisphere. Flip a hexmap on its backside, put the other on it an lime the borders and blow up this construction - at least similar to a real geodic map.
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Net matches would be another.Insinuator wrote: Additionally, in a practical way, the only reason I could see for a map of this type would be one for the whole world. There are extremely limited applications of a world map for Wesnoth. In fact, it borders on the nill.
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
I'm a little confused by what you're saying here. Are you proposing two maps, one an inverse of the other? That would be technically possible if you just created a very large map and created two hemispheres split with a void in between them. Then you could implement some WML that teleports you on the edge of each map to the other side of its counterpart. That would be interesting but it would be far from seamless and the AI would probably need some "guidance" to use it properly.MetalKing wrote:Simple connecting the opposited borders (sorry if my grammar/vocabular hurt would make the world (map) limitless though the Wesnoth-Worlds won't get geodic w/o additional conditions. I think two hexagonal map with linked map borders should do the trick while each hexmap represents a single hemisphere. Flip a hexmap on its backside, put the other on it an lime the borders and blow up this construction - at least similar to a real geodic map.
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
Not a bad idea at all. I figured it could be a dodecahedron. That way the hexes divided by more hexes.
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
@GMA in the earlier posts, it was explained that you can't make a real shape using only hex.es without distorting them. At least not in three dimentions.
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
zookeeper wrote:Please first demonstrate if/how that can be mapped to a rectangular hex grid.
Did you get, read and understand my document I made for this and I sent to you?
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
Well, no. I didn't have anything capable of opening ODF and then I forgot.MetalKing wrote:zookeeper wrote:Please first demonstrate if/how that can be mapped to a rectangular hex grid.
Did you get, read and understand my document I made for this and I sent to you?
Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
no office? no ms office, open office, koffice, etc? that's really sad. can you open PDF?
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
Sure.MetalKing wrote:no office? no ms office, open office, koffice, etc? that's really sad. can you open PDF?
Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
still not sure if this is what we're talking about:
would indeed be a nice map option - still a nightmare to implement...-
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
@Max: I don't quite understand your map. It just looks like mirror images of the same section. Surely that's not what we're considering a geodic map is...
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
Check the coordinates.Insinuator wrote:@Max: I don't quite understand your map. It just looks like mirror images of the same section. Surely that's not what we're considering a geodic map is...
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Re: [engine] Geodic Maps
i created this mockup to show that making maps endless can be done with hexes as long as you're rendering it on a flat surface (and the width is divisible by 2).Insinuator wrote:@Max: I don't quite understand your map. It just looks like mirror images of the same section. Surely that's not what we're considering a geodic map is...