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For fans of Ground Control........ [message #96931]

Wed, 23 June 2004 18:53

gibberish
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]I'm confused. This looks like a FPS game, yet it's a RTS?

FPS = First Person Shooter.
Since you are looking down on the units that's Third Person. Wink

But seriously, similiar stuff has been done before, look at Warcraft 3.

On a a couple of game development sites I read I have seen discussions where some people think that the days of 2D games are numbered.

Their opinion was that although games may continue to be played in 2D (from a top down view point) the actual rendering (graphics) will all be done in 3D.

Their logic was that since a lot of the Bob's and Sprites are acutally drawn in 3D packages before converting them to 2D you might as well just have the game draw the objects directly.

The only significant counter argument I can come up with is map levels.
In that it is really easy to build huge maps from tilesets. However sorting out a 3d maps with thier associated issues such as:

- Lighting
- Visibility Culling
- Waypoints for AI
- "Invisible Walls"
...

Will probably be a pain in the arse for some time.

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		For fans of Ground Control........ By: KIRBY098 on Tue, 22 June 2004 09:36
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: spreegem on Tue, 22 June 2004 11:41
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: Xtrm2Matt on Tue, 22 June 2004 12:13
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: flyingfox on Tue, 22 June 2004 14:04
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: England on Tue, 22 June 2004 15:17
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: icedog90 on Tue, 22 June 2004 16:01
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: Xtrm2Matt on Wed, 23 June 2004 13:26
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: icedog90 on Wed, 23 June 2004 14:59
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: gibberish on Wed, 23 June 2004 15:37
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: Jaspah on Wed, 23 June 2004 17:38
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: gibberish on Wed, 23 June 2004 18:53
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: {DG}Stryder on Wed, 23 June 2004 23:11
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: Xtrm2Matt on Wed, 23 June 2004 23:41
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: Apache on Wed, 23 June 2004 23:44
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: revenuke on Thu, 24 June 2004 01:57
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: {DG}Stryder on Thu, 24 June 2004 09:59
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: revenuke on Thu, 24 June 2004 12:20
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: {DG}Stryder on Thu, 24 June 2004 12:28
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: Xtrm2Matt on Thu, 24 June 2004 12:29
		For fans of Ground Control........ By: revenuke on Thu, 24 June 2004 15:40

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