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Gjl
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How can I create a world that constantly loads such as in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker? I'm guessing this can be acchieved with multiple terrains joined together and loaded when the player nears each one.
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indi
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look at the tank demo for an example of a shifting matrix.
if you dont have access to it then look at the commands that shift matrix data left right up and down


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Gjl
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I don't want the world to be just the same level shifted to create the effect of an infinite world. What I want is a world made up of terrain that I've designed and loaded dynamicaly to remove the need for a loading screen which I feel would interrupt the flow of the game.
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Gjl
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Anyone?
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the desktops
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Magic World is a good tool, download it from the Darkbasic Application User Showcase!

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Current Project: Soul Shooter Lan, Soul Shooter Online, DarkGamePlayer 1.03
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BatVink
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I don't think Magic World is the one with "Zones", that's Freddix' tool I believe.

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kidsa
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what about ppl with the free trial?
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Gjl
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I just want to know how one would approach this task. The idea of action zones sounds good although I'm not sure how to actually program this and I don't want to learn and use the 3D Map Editor although it does look to be a very nice tool.
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Shadow
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Perhaps you could store your world data in an array and then set the matrix heights/tiles to values from the array (sorry if that's not very clear)

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spooky
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shadow has the best idea. My alienware compo game does exactly that. As you cross matrix tiles, you shift the matrix and update the tiles, heights and normals of the edge from a huge array.

If you look on my website, you can download the game and the source code to see how it all works. Matrix is 79*79 tiles but the landscape is 300*300 tiles but could easily be 10000*10000 if you wanted, with no slowdown. Would take you a long time to walk from one side to the other but at least it is possible. The hardest thing is actually filling and texturing such a huge landscape. My game has a built in matrix editor.

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wh1sp3r
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If you want a VERY large terrain .. and use dynamic loading terrain, you must use shifting matrix ...
My example: http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=24749&b=1

Try it. If you want consult, write me on mail.

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