{"id":369,"date":"2009-01-02T00:40:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=369"},"modified":"2009-01-02T00:44:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:44:27","slug":"progress-on-game-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/01\/02\/progress-on-game-in-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress on Game in a Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-369 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/farviewmap.png'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/farviewmap-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/midviewmap.png'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/midviewmap-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/nearviewmap.png'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/nearviewmap-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/surfaceviewmap.png'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/surfaceviewmap-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been making more progress on the Game in a Week.\u00a0 No game screenshots to show yet, but here&#8217;s a neat piece of tech that I&#8217;m using, which will be finding its way into MMORPG Tycoon 2.0.\u00a0 What you&#8217;re looking at again is a slow zoom-in on a very, very small terrain in wireframe view.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that when fully zoomed out, the terrain appears as a flat map directly beneath the camera, but as you zoom in mountains begin to appear, and then the terrain begins to take on the gentle curve of a globe, and the camera begins to automatically pitch upward to give you a ground level view of the scene (and let you see the sky, beyond the horizon).\u00a0 Topologically, the terrain it&#8217;s actually a torus that just happens to sort of resemble a sphere.\u00a0 Had to cheat and do it that way, in order to allow the map to unwrap into a flat rectangle without distorting.\u00a0 And you don&#8217;t want to know how much time I wasted making this math work.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s sort of neat, and I&#8217;m looking forward to releasing the game.<\/p>\n<p>Two more days to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been making more progress on the Game in a Week.\u00a0 No game screenshots to show yet, but here&#8217;s a neat piece of tech that 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