Support for planet maps?

[MidKnight]

fixes hard map edge issue, adds lots of cool new strategies.

What I'm suggesting is repeating the map, as on a real planet, with infinite panning, where, for example, a unit could climb up whats normall the top edge of the map and appear at what's normally the bottom, but since the map is tiled, that isn't apparent.

[yuritch]

Well, first of all, that will emulate a very strange torus-shaped (like a donut) planet. Second, amount of code rewrites needed for that is, well, large. And third, most of the current maps aren't really suited for that - if bottom ('south') of the map is sea and the top ('north') is land, how the top-to-bottom wraparound would look like?

[lurker]

Well, torus topology doesn't really mean torus shape, especially when you consider that a torus is much larger along the outside ring. It's just a nice simple physics-violating map.

[Hoi]

There was a topic about this before, and the conclusion was, if you want planets, go play spore

[Otherside]

I heard you like MTR

[MidKnight]

I'm proposing an option, so that mapmakers could develop maps especially for this, and point that out to the engine.

I didnt put this in main post so as to not spark an sm3 debate.

[smoth]

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[Das Bruce]

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CONFIRMED

[MidKnight]

well,I just figured out what MTR means

But I'm not suggesting entire planets(!)

endlessly tiling the map (with the obvious anti-lag measures) and carrying unit position/info over to the other side of the map would take significantly less code than bona fide planets, no?

[AF]

Populous 3 maps where donuts IIRC, combined with a hefty amount of visual trickery to give the illusion of a spherical world.

[bobthedinosaur]

cant you make a global lua just move a unit that gets to the edge of the map to the opposite edge?

[zwzsg]

I'm proposing an option

Get your code and custom engine build on the table!

[BaNa]

cant you make a global lua just move a unit that gets to the edge of the map to the opposite edge?

how would you path or fire across edges?

[Noruas]

lua stupid thats how.

[smoth]

no

[Hoi]

well actually... if you'd write a new engine in lua, in spring

[bobthedinosaur]

no