Here’s a slightly updated version of the hacky “full MMORPG view” map, where I’ve begun setting many regions as “ocean” regions. In this case, I’ve told the MMORPG region generation routine that I want two main continents, much like WoW has. It’s pretty trivial to adjust this to have one huge landmass, or lots of…
So today I did something which I’ve been meaning to do for months; I put in some quick full-MMORPG visualisation code. What you’re looking at in this screenshot is almost the entire MMORPG map (there’s a little bit that’s behind the camera or off to one side or the other), viewed from four kilometers up.…
So I was grumbling to myself today about how tricky it is to be dealing with such a large world in MMORPG Tycoon 2; since the world terrain is generated procedurally as you move around in the world, it means that data such as the height of the terrain simply isn’t stored anywhere for locations…
Warning: long, meandering musing about some basic UI design follows. Feel free to ignore this; I’m just trying to work some things out in my head. When designing a user interface, one of the critical choices that must be made is how the user is going to give commands to the program. Traditionally, there are…
So that problem I mentioned yesterday — having roads end up being selected as though they were in front of objects which they were actually behind — eventually turned out to be a nasty little leak of temporary collision result data which was being generated as part of an optimisation. Basically, when I’m trying to…