Mutilple maps?

[Stanley Sutton]

Actually I was thinking of multiple scale maps, such as strategic and
tactical levels, but supporting 3D would be nice, also.  I suspect that
doing both won't be much more work than doing either serpeatly. :-)

Just glancing at the code, a good first step might be to replace all the
explict x and y dependancies with a co-ordinate struct, which would
support both multiple co-ordinates and scales.



-----Original Message-----

From:	Hans Ronne [mailto:hronne@pp.sbbs.se]

Sent:	Mon 17-Jun-02 15:35

To:	Stanley Sutton

Cc:	xconq7@sources.redhat.com

Subject:	Re: Mutilple maps?


>Is anyone doing any work on multiple level maps currently?  Is so, do

>you need help?  If not, do you need someone to start working on it?



You mean a 3D map like in D&D? I guess it could be implemented as
multiple

areas on top of each other that are connected at certain points. Would
take

a lot of coding, though. Certainly not something I'm working on.



This would also raise some interesting AI problems. Should the game only

load and play one area (where you are) at a time? This would be like in
D2

where nothing really happens when you are not around. Or should the game

try to play all levels at the same time? I guess the latter is more or
less

unavoidable in a multiplayer game.



All in all, this is a huge task. But if you want to give it a try,
please

go ahead :-).



Hans





Hans Ronne



hronne@pp.sbbs.se