{"id":2873,"date":"2013-08-26T22:11:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2013-08-27T08:25:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T22:25:32","slug":"map-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2013\/08\/26\/map-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Map editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-26-at-9.39.22-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2874\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-08-26 at 9.39.22 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-26-at-9.39.22-PM-300x213.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-26-at-9.39.22-PM-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-26-at-9.39.22-PM.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For the last week or so, I&#8217;ve been working on MMORPG Tycoon 2&#8217;s retro-style map;\u00a0 trying to bring a simplified vector graphic look to the interface, for use in most high-level views of the world.\u00a0 I can render the full generated world no problem, but it&#8217;s a little awkward to work with, particularly when you need to present localised information about what&#8217;s going on in various parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>This view is showing an overview of a level.\u00a0 The various large polygons are showing the different large regions of my MMO (each one is about one or two square kilometers).\u00a0 The green region is &#8220;switched on&#8221; and accessible to PCs in the game, whereas the black ones are not yet active.\u00a0 The blue are (unsurprisingly) underwater, and also inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p>I find that I&#8217;m enjoying this sort of view;\u00a0 it feels like a nice incremental refinement over the 2D map view from MMORPG Tycoon 1, where here the regions are visibly 3D, but only subtly so.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to purchasing regions to use within the game (similar to how one can purchase extra property within other Tycoon games), this map is also fully editable &#8212; you can make high areas, lift regions out of the sea (or submerge them again), make cliffs between regions, etc.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t yet feeding back into the generated terrain mesh yet, but that&#8217;s my next step.\u00a0 And the mouse interface for editing the terrain still needs a lot of tweaking, particularly around creating and removing cliffs between regions!\u00a0 But I think it&#8217;s looking very promising so far!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last week or so, I&#8217;ve been working on MMORPG Tycoon 2&#8217;s retro-style map;\u00a0 trying to bring a simplified vector graphic look to the interface, for use in most high-level views of the world.\u00a0 I can render the full generated world no problem, but it&#8217;s a little awkward to work with, particularly when you&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":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-Kl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873"}],"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=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}