Sneak peek!

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Sep 14 2009, 6:13 am
Looks iso-metro-riffic.
Sep 19 2009, 9:16 pm
Geldonyetich wrote:
Looks iso-metro-riffic.

I concur. I cannot begin to describe my desire to get my hands on a copy of that. I'd almost pay money for a pre-release version. <.<
Sep 19 2009, 9:25 pm
..and People say we are stupid for paying for Byond. :rolleyes:
Sep 20 2009, 1:43 am
Allen14 wrote:
..and People say we are stupid for paying for Byond. :rolleyes:

Thats why you have others pay for you.
Sep 20 2009, 8:04 am
Allen14 wrote:
..and People say we are stupid for paying for Byond. :rolleyes:

Who's saying that and how did they get the idea BYOND isn't free?
Sep 20 2009, 9:07 am
Gochels wrote:
Allen14 wrote:
..and People say we are stupid for paying for Byond. :rolleyes:

Thats why you have others pay for you.

I don't mind paying 18 dollars for a year, I mean it's worth it. Plus I don't know people that well on here to pay for me.
Sep 20 2009, 2:40 pm
dude, im already thinking of games that can be recreated lol example, 3D PAC MAN

lol
Sep 20 2009, 2:41 pm
ShadowKnight06 wrote:
3D PAC MAN

Epic.

Sep 20 2009, 2:41 pm
ShadowKnight06 wrote:
dude, im already thinking of games that can be recreated lol example, 3D PAC MAN

lol

It'll be nice to revive some of the 3d type games from the old consoles.
Sep 20 2009, 2:42 pm
lol the thing is im just saying 3D pacman because its original, but they already made 3d pacman for ps2 a while back
Sep 20 2009, 2:43 pm
It'll be nice to have a building block game, it certainly would be something to see.
Sep 20 2009, 3:06 pm
BOMBER MAN!!!!! FTW
Sep 23 2009, 4:55 am
I'm wondering how it would be handled. Would we set where the base is with coordinates and vectors? Or would it be something done in the icon editor, if the latter, then a lot of people who use third part programs to make there icons are gonna be peeeeessed....
Sep 23 2009, 7:59 am
You won't need to screw around with vectors. Just put a regular isometric diamond at the bottom of the icon. If you want to do this manually, you can start with two pixels centered on the bottom row, and then from there move two over and one up, in both left and right directions. This will leave you one empty pixel of space on the left and right sides of the icon. Then duplicate the widest row and start working inward again.

Since not everyone is going to be comfortable with doing this manually, the icon editor will contain a menu item that will generate that diamond for you. That can then be pasted into another editor if you prefer to do your editing outside of DM.
Sep 23 2009, 8:07 am
Lummox JR wrote:
You won't need to screw around with vectors. Just put a regular isometric diamond at the bottom of the icon. If you want to do this manually, you can start with two pixels centered on the bottom row, and then from there move two over and one up, in both left and right directions. This will leave you one empty pixel of space on the left and right sides of the icon. Then duplicate the widest row and start working inward again.

Since not everyone is going to be comfortable with doing this manually, the icon editor will contain a menu item that will generate that diamond for you. That can then be pasted into another editor if you prefer to do your editing outside of DM.

:o my nipples are hard now. Just a little information i would like to share.
Sep 23 2009, 12:41 pm
Aw, no mention as to whether the maps will act like mobius strips or not? :(

(pssst, will you tell us? :o)
Sep 23 2009, 2:19 pm
At this time there are no plans for map "looping". Something like that I think might make sense in the context of linked maps, which RPGs would greatly benefit from. But that's a server-side feature and one that's not really on the drawing board.

Server-wise, isometric maps will behave just like regular maps because they both operate on the same basic tile system. The main difference is in how they display at the client end. I have more down-the-road ideas for other uses of the new world.map_format var, which would be facilitated by a lot of the changes that are making isometric possible, but isometric is the low-hanging fruit.
Sep 23 2009, 2:23 pm
Lummox JR wrote:
At this time there are no plans for map "looping". Something like that I think might make sense in the context of linked maps, which RPGs would greatly benefit from. But that's a server-side feature and one that's not really on the drawing board.

Server-wise, isometric maps will behave just like regular maps because they both operate on the same basic tile system. The main difference is in how they display at the client end. I have more down-the-road ideas for other uses of the new world.map_format var, which would be facilitated by a lot of the changes that are making isometric possible, but isometric is the low-hanging fruit.

Boo we want a round world this isn't the 1600's!
Sep 23 2009, 2:27 pm
Technically a world that looped east-west and north-south would be toroidal. (Also the Americas were pretty big news in the 1600s, so the round world secret was out by then. :)

I've always been amenable to a linked map feature though, and frighteningly during my last response I actually thought of a way to do it. One major feature upgrade at a time, though.
Sep 23 2009, 2:30 pm
I wonder what it would have been like to hear news about the discovery of an entire new continent.
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