{"id":233,"date":"2008-08-13T04:34:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T18:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-08-13T04:39:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T18:39:29","slug":"mmorpg-tycoon-spline-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/08\/13\/mmorpg-tycoon-spline-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"MMORPG Tycoon Spline Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mmorpg-spline-roads.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-234\" title=\"mmorpg-spline-roads\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mmorpg-spline-roads-300x195.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mmorpg-spline-roads-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mmorpg-spline-roads.png 1052w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After some discussion over on the forums, I&#8217;ve finally implemented the new road placement system for version 1.1.\u00a0 Roads now pass through &#8220;Road Nodes&#8221;, which serve as anchors for splines.\u00a0 Each &#8220;road node&#8221; can have up to four roads attached to it.\u00a0 This means that in 1.1, you&#8217;ll be able to have nicely curved roads and branching roads, and it&#8217;s easy to specify exactly the path that roads should travel, instead of always being approximately straight lines between destinations.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still a little work to be done in the interface (the road node graphics need to change their scale based upon the current zoom level, so they&#8217;re always visible but not obtrusive, adventurers need to actually use the nodes, etc).. but placement is working in my development branch, and I&#8217;m pretty happy with the behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>For the curious, in this screenshot, there are six road nodes.\u00a0 Though I could have done it with just five.\u00a0 And those green dots are monsters (we&#8217;re zoomed too far out to see more detail than just dots)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some discussion over on the forums, I&#8217;ve finally implemented the new road placement system for version 1.1.\u00a0 Roads now pass through &#8220;Road Nodes&#8221;, which serve as anchors for splines.\u00a0 Each &#8220;road node&#8221; can have up to four roads attached to it.\u00a0 This means that in 1.1, you&#8217;ll be able to have nicely curved roads&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-3L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}