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[Vactor]

Ninja update:

Exterior and root tiles are in, a bit more to cap those corners, and then i still need to figure out what tile #8 (mountain tile) dosen't think it has any neighbors.

[Duke 2.0]

 I must say, even a basic root that gives it thickness make it look very nice. Can't wait to see it polished.

[Neonivek]

I feel guilty for not giving suggestions in a while... ohh well.

[Tahin]

Wow. that looks awesome.

When, uh, are we looking at getting something playable?

[Vactor]

Wow. that looks awesome.

When, uh, are we looking at getting something playable?

Well please keep in mind that I have a full time job in addition to programing this, so I won't be able to match pace with Toady.  That being said the best I can give you is hopefully before too long.

[Callagan111]

Wow. that looks awesome.

When, uh, are we looking at getting something playable?

Well please keep in mind that I have a full time job in addition to programing this, so I won't be able to match pace with Toady.  That being said the best I can give you is hopefully before too long.

I know what you mean. Soon!™ is a good enough ETA to give. 

[Vactor]

Last update tonight:



turns out the problem with tile 8 had to do with (i'm guessing) some rounding that was going on while muliplying and dividing the square root of 3(the unit of y measurements you use to make a hexagon grid)  I created a seperate grid listing where tiles can track their location using whole numbers instead, and it worked like a charm.  I added a few more tiles by hand to give it a bit of scope.

(its a nice feeling to realize that your code logic is in fact correct, its just a failure on the number's part)

The capping of the corners will have to wait as i'm off to bed now. 

[Duke 2.0]

 Your gonna need a wireframe for the hexagons, as it's starting to look more natural than grid-based. Well done.

 

[Tahin]

Wow. that looks awesome.

When, uh, are we looking at getting something playable?

Well please keep in mind that I have a full time job in addition to programing this, so I won't be able to match pace with Toady.  That being said the best I can give you is hopefully before too long.

I don't mean to rush you or anything. I'm just wondering. It's great just to know that it's being worked on.

[qwertyuiopas]

I know that feeling of "what is wrong???" that turns out to be something simple unrelated to the logic.
Did you know there IS a diffrence between a char and an unsigned char?
Trying to display a 256 char font when the second half is a completely random scattering of pixels is not fun.

[PTTG??]

Oook, I'm going to need to re-do those edge root tiles.
Oh, can your engine take bumpmaps?

[Vactor]

just a few notes about the tiles PTTG:

1. the root tiles are all interior facing at the moment, so they don't have the correct shader applied, and I have to turn Culling off so that it draws the front and back of every face. (

2.  I'm wondering if we need to have the X-X cap tiles, would we be able to have whatever is neccessary to cap the corners on the sides of edge tiles (on interior corners the extra part of the model would just be hidden inside its neighbor.)

They work great though.  I'm looking into what I'm able to do in regards to textures and normal maps.  I know I can apply both to the models, and I think I'll be able to pull out and apply particular textures, however I'm not so sure about normal maps.

Anyhow, i'm going to spend some time with the Missus, i'll see if i can't get something written up that can add tiles to the edge of an existing airland a little later tonight, (maybe slap a few textures on the models and get a pic of a big airland up for everyone.)

[Vactor]

I'm especially tired tonight after waking up at 2am thinking my alarm had gone off, So i just threw a dash of color on what i had done from yesterday.  It isn't much, but i think it shows how much PTTG?'s terrain pops with some texture on it.  (look a little bit more appealing than the blank grey tiles too.)

[Karlito]

What's the blue supposed to be?

[Callagan111]

What's the blue supposed to be?

I think it's water.