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Newcomers DBPro Corner / We need help on grid maps

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Zeus
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Posted: 7th Aug 2006 22:11
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We are making a tycoon game right now. But we can't figure out how to make a grid map .

Thanks.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 7th Aug 2006 23:21
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explain your problem more. a "grid map" could be nothing more than a 2D array.

dim map(100,100)

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Zeus
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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 00:32
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We mean grid maps like things on the sims and roller coaster tycoon.
Grids we can move objects on in the gameplay.

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flock
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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 03:08
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Call on the grid to be drawn. Manipulate the snapping coordinates with an array.

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Acolyte Entertainment
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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 03:25
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im wondering the same thing. a lil more in depth explanation wuold be nice
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Dextro
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Maybe he's talking about matrixes?
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Acolyte Entertainment
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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 07:25
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no those are terrain objects Dextro.
he meens a 2D grid where sprites/objects snap too hwne moved over
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Phaelax
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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 13:09
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2D example of snapping a box to a grid. Position of the box is represented by grid coordinates.




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Zeus
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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 15:42 Edited at: 8th Aug 2006 15:58
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Thanks! I need to know how to delete the shap you drew.

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RUCCUS
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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 17:05
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Jordan, sounds like you're just copying/pasting a bunch of code requests without understanding/learning what they do. If you cant look through is code to see how to remove something made by it, then you're getting ahead of yourself.


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Zotoaster
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Quote: "We are making a tycoon game right now"


Why is it always 'we'?

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Sixty Squares
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Posted: 8th Aug 2006 23:38
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Apparently they are a group of people of some sort., not just 1 person. They must all share an account...

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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 9th Aug 2006 00:40 Edited at: 9th Aug 2006 00:41
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*sigh*

Don't tell him. He should figure out the code himself.

Why is it that all new users have to be like this? I started with the two week trial of DBC and made a plateform game, before I even knew about these forums. Can't they just learn themselves?

Don't they realize what it takes to make a game? Before I used to make games, I knew it wasn't easy, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that.

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Black Mesa
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Thanks Phaelax that was really helpful. I just wanted to get everyones thoughts on how you could translate that into 3d so that you could rotate around the grid. I was thinking maybe a model with a grid texture but I dont think it would line up.
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RUCCUS
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@Uncle Sam: This is the Newcommer's Forum however. Asking questions is encouraged, that's why people stick around here to answer/help out. The asking questions isnt the problem, its when people get ahead of themselves and start attempting to make Halo before they've figured out how to detect mouseclicks.


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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 9th Aug 2006 04:03 Edited at: 9th Aug 2006 04:03
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Yah sorry, that's what I was talking about, because I saw his post, I remembered his "Halo" attempts, and it just drives me crazy. :S

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Zeus
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Posted: 9th Aug 2006 04:06
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I've quit doin' that.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 9th Aug 2006 05:37
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black mesa, you don't technically need a grid image. That's only shown to help the user see where its snapping to.

Converting it to 3D is simple. Change Y to Z and translate the mouse 2D coords into 3D coords. There's snippets laying around for that conversion.

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Black Mesa
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Posted: 10th Aug 2006 19:46
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But say I did want a grid image, what could I do about that?
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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 10th Aug 2006 22:35 Edited at: 10th Aug 2006 22:36
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Quote: "I've quit doin' that."


That's good, but what I was talking about was the code snippet above. You obviously are jsut copying and pasting in the code, but it won't work, so you want someone to go through it and fix it and you can then copy and paste in a new version.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 11th Aug 2006 23:45
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load image "grid.jpg", 1
make matrix 1, 1000,1000,20,20
prepare matrix texture 1,1,1,1,

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