{"id":997,"date":"2009-12-21T22:22:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=997"},"modified":"2009-12-21T22:22:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T11:22:15","slug":"more-steps-toward-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/12\/21\/more-steps-toward-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"More steps toward stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Terrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-998\" title=\"Terrain\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Terrain-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Terrain-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Terrain.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So I&#8217;ve been working more and more toward editable terrain. \u00a0Still not quite there yet, but am finally getting rather close. \u00a0I&#8217;ve now set up a couple of key steps towards editable terrain. \u00a0First, the subregions (and regions, for that matter) which I&#8217;ve mentioned before now know about their neighbours. \u00a0Ever since dropping the &#8220;grid&#8221;-based region approach that I used in MMORPG Tycoon 1 and 1.1, regions haven&#8217;t been able to know what other regions bordered them, simply because they were irregular; \u00a0when all you have is a big list of shapes, it can be difficult to tell which ones share borders! \u00a0But that&#8217;s now been sorted out.<\/p>\n<p>This will be important for terrain editing, for smoothly blending from one terrain type into another, across subregion boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also today set up subregions to be able to specify a different style than that of their parent region. \u00a0In the screenshot here, I&#8217;m standing inside a hilly-grasslands subregion, looking towards two rolling-mountain-tundra subregions. \u00a0(the blending between regions isn&#8217;t implemented yet, which is why you can see sharp cliffs between the different subregions)<\/p>\n<p>Next step will be blending terrain between subregions. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got a pretty good idea of how that&#8217;ll work. \u00a0Next after that will be actually regenerating the terrain data when the player adjusts the subregions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been working more and more toward editable terrain. \u00a0Still not quite there yet, but am finally getting rather close. \u00a0I&#8217;ve now set up a couple of key steps towards editable terrain. \u00a0First, the subregions (and regions, for that matter) which I&#8217;ve mentioned before now know about their neighbours. \u00a0Ever since dropping the &#8220;grid&#8221;-based&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-g5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997"}],"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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}