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The Old Man

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Posted: 31st Aug 2003 01:58

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What is the best way to make a 'good looking' board for a board game, like a chess or checkers board. Is it to make a matrix and texture it using 2 tiles and then rotate the matrix for viewing? Then how do I know which spot on the board I am on - how do I check or set this up?

Thanks for any help.

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Falelorn

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Posted: 31st Aug 2003 02:41

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I would make a model, much easier IMO to play around with a model then a matrix.

You can texture, give it a unique shape, zoom, unzoom, rotate, scale etc

Then you can place what ever on the board model (peices, dice, etc)

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Ian T

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Posted: 31st Aug 2003 03:47

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I use a series of textured boxes 10x2x10 in size.

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indi

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Posted: 1st Sep 2003 07:40

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heres a really small neat example of an internal method to creating a chess or checkers board.

you should be able to modify this for your requirements.

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sync on
sync rate 0

make matrix 1,100,100,4,4
position matrix 1,-50,0,-50

ink rgb(0,0,0),1
box 0,0,64,64
ink rgb(255,255,255),1
box 0,0,32,32
ink rgb(255,255,255),1
box 33,33,64,64

get image 1,0,0,64,64
prepare matrix texture 1,1,1,1
update matrix 1

make object cube 10,10.25
position object 10,-45,0,-45

position camera 0,100,-90
point camera 0,0,0

do
sync
loop

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indi

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Posted: 1st Sep 2003 07:41

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and heres an example on laying out peices

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sync on
sync rate 0


make matrix 1,80,80,8,8

for whitepawn = 1 to 8
make object cylinder whitepawn,5
position object whitepawn,(whitepawn*10) -5,0,15
next whitepawn



for blackpawn = 9 to 16
make object cylinder blackpawn,5
x = x + 1
color object blackpawn,0
position object blackpawn,(x*10)-5,0,65
next blackpawn


cy =80


position camera 40,cy,90
point camera 40,0,40

do
if cy < 10 then cy = 10
if cy > 110 then cy = 110
if inkey$()="1" then cy = cy + 1
if inkey$()="2" then cy = cy - 1
position camera 40,cy,90
point camera 40,0,40

sync
loop

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The Old Man

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Posted: 2nd Sep 2003 16:58

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Thanks to all for the suggestions/code

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