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3320 sousaspt Offline Send Email Sep 1, 2002
10:06 am
If possible maybe a new "tracking" skill, who would complement OBSE. For example, the new SKILL would: - Tell you if the units is using REVEAL to cover his...
3321 JT
jttraub Offline Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
4:17 pm
... Hash: SHA1 ... There *is* in the code a define called 'BATTLE_FACTION_INFO' which will give that information. HOWEVER, the reason I don't turn it on by...
3322 JT
jttraub Offline Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
4:18 pm
... Hash: SHA1 ... In that case, there would need to be a complimenting skill to avoid allowing that information to be revealed too. Not happening right now, ...
3323 Dmitry Y. Labutin
dmitry_labutin Offline Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
4:45 pm
Hi, JT. Where in Atlantis 4.0.10a old rules on Conquest game? :( Where Magic conception of Conquest game? Where spells like Inspire Courage? Conquest game in...
3324 JT
jttraub Offline Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
5:02 pm
... Hash: SHA1 ... Umm.. no, actually they aren't since I took the conquest from 4.0.4 directly at one point. However, what is there is what is there.. I...
3325 Stephen Baillie
argentrune Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
4:52 am
Hi All, I've been continuing to try to get my head around implementing a roughly spherical map layout for Atlantis, and have come to the conclusion that it...
3326 Anthony Briggs
anthony_s_br... Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
5:37 am
... I'm not sure of your reasoning here. Surely a world with east and west is exactly the same as a world with north and south, but rotated 90 degrees to one...
3327 Rick C
frost_cat Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
6:15 am
From: "Anthony Briggs" <abriggs@...> ... I'm not sure yet either but we'll skip that for now. ... Since the previous post specifically mentions...
3328 Stephen Baillie
argentrune Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
7:14 am
... Well yes, but this has a couple of VERY adverse effects. For starters, instead of having north and south poles, you suddenly have east and west poles....
3329 Alhaam
ahitribe Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
7:15 am
Hi, ... Why is it a 'nice' thing? What is the problem with the current layout, and how does a sphere solve that problem? I can only guess (my apologies if this...
3330 Craig M
pbem_addict Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
7:17 am
... don't ... triangle of ... of ... would ... bit ... other ... of ... the ... I think your describing a Geodesic Sphere. Geometry terms aren't my strong suit...
3331 Anthony Briggs
anthony_s_br... Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
7:31 am
... You could do it the way people do it in real life - pick a line of longitude, and make that 0. Then you have your y coords, from 0 to (5+1+5+1..)n = 5*6n =...
3332 Stephen Baillie
argentrune Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
7:45 am
... A very good description of what I visualise! Except that the equator would only be 50 hexes, as you'd also have bits cut out of the "sides" to match up. ...
3333 Mechdragon
mythraindor Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
7:50 am
... You wouldn't be american by any chance?...
3334 Stephen Baillie
argentrune Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
7:57 am
... Pentagons. ... Actually, Geodesic spheres from that (very pretty) site sem to be made up primarily of triangles. I know you can make hexagons and...
3335 Stephen Baillie
argentrune Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
8:04 am
... Because I would find it aesthetically pleasing, and I suspect some others may feel likewise. I think the camels would like it too! ... True, and hence my...
3336 Craig M
pbem_addict Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
8:19 am
... Doh! Of course! like the US Pentagon. Should have thought of that. Still I said Geometric terms are not my strong point :) ... hexes/pentagons. It can. ......
3337 Craig M
pbem_addict Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
8:19 am
... strong ... Geodesic ... Nope, I'm an Aussie. Craig,...
3338 Craig M
pbem_addict Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
9:14 am
... but ... I've have now and every 2nd row of hexagons fits perfectly :) Craig,...
3339 Stephen Baillie
argentrune Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
9:30 am
... Ah, ok. I was looking at the level 2 one, and assuming they'd all follow the same pattern. ... Nah - just pretend that they're in one particular column,...
3340 Craig M
pbem_addict Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
10:28 am
... Actually there are some weird side effects in the northen and southern zones, see attachment. Craig,...
3341 Anthony Briggs
anthony_s_br... Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
10:58 am
... Yep, it's effectively the same as the map I drew, provided you split the trangles apart in the northern and southern "hemispheres", and shift the...
3342 Anthony Briggs
anthony_s_br... Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
11:09 am
... Sorry, I meant to attach this picture. Anthony -- ... HyPEraCtiVE? HeY, WhO aRE YoU cALliNg HypERaCtIve?! aBRiGgS@......
3343 Craig M
pbem_addict Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
11:33 am
... Yeah they are basically the same. My mind leapt to the term geodesic sphere because I was trying to think of how a client would represent the world. Your...
3344 alhaam@...
ahitribe Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
12:08 pm
Hi, ... Yes, a sphere is perhaps more aesthetically pleasing, but it would be annoying to try and move in a particular direction and then be told that one...
3345 Rick C
frost_cat Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
1:24 pm
From: "Alhaam" <alhaam@...> ... of ... Something I thought of once that I don't recall if I've ever seen tried anywhere would be, if you try to go...
3346 Rick C
frost_cat Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
1:28 pm
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3347 JT
jttraub Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
1:42 pm
... Hash: SHA1 ... Actually, *MY* view on it was that the actual poles were covered by impassable ice-floes :) However, that said, I have no problem with...
3348 Anthony Briggs
anthony_s_br... Offline Send Email
Sep 4, 2002
1:44 pm
... Well, there's aesthetically pleasing, and there's aesthetically pleasing. Personally I don't think that icosahedrons are workable. You can line up the...
3349 wacky_wizard001 Offline Send Email Sep 4, 2002
2:13 pm
Hello all. I don't believe rapping the north to the south is the answer. As if a unit was to hit the northern boarder and then walk one hex more. It would not...
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