another idea - radar range on geoscape

[moriarty]

I guess that's what we'll be doing - once we have shading

all we have right now is limited color palettes, and some tricksy things to make brightness shifts that look like shading but aren't.

[Startling]

Great Well, the circles look actually best from the currently implemented methods. Having a button to disable them would make it perfect.

I am happy to do correct math for the geoscape btw, if you need any more of the correct traj. planning (no weird spiral bug that was in the original) or even hex-based geoscape (I think it is already hex based?)

[moriarty]

I'm not one of the programmers, but I think the trajectories are already optimized. at least, they appear to be more 3D-shortest-distance than the original

hex-based geoscape? I don't think there is any kind of tiling involved, everything is truly 3D-coordinate based. or am I not getting what you are trying to say? 

[Startling]

Is what I meant

[moriarty]

funny you should mention this... I ran across that program some time ago, and thought it would be a really nice basis for a "Master of Magic"-remake. but I don't really see where xcom would profit from a tile-based geoscape.

[Startling]

Not so much as to hex-based landscape, but more for the purposes of the tris visualisation. The original xcom had quite low poly and heavily triangulated meshes, with better quality closer to poles (i.e. usual sin/cos vertex distribution). But I am heavily derailing the topic right now, so I should stop

[moriarty]

take a look at this thread: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,543.0.html

originating from this thread: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,530.0.html


for now, we are bound by the original data structure, but we can increase the poly count due to having more computing power than "back in the days". I guess completely re-working the geoscape engine and data would be possible, though... in the future (for now we are happy it's working as it is)

[Yankes]

This hex planet isnt hex, more accurate name is football planet or Fullerene planet.

And about Plan position indicator (aka green radar display with fading dots) it will be hard to made and slow to draw, at lest using my globe shading.
I dont see any other solution to made it work, trying draw them directly (drawing polygons or multiple line) will be even harder to do and lot of slower than my solution (only way to made it work is draw one circle and one line, but this will not have any "fading").

[Volutar]

This scanning line will be useless and actually confusing, just because in [open]xcom globe objects being discovered each 30 minutes (at the same time on whole globe), not with those "sweeps". So they will mislead this process.
Or, you got to rewrite whole detection algorithm, to make those line work not only visually. And that will be quite a hard task. And quite meaningless. I.e. it doesn't worth it.

[Francois424]

If this idea is implemented, I'd like for it to be optionnal thru some option.
I like knowing the range of my radars but after a few minutes it's going to become annoying, heh.

Good work guys.

[Volutar]

Officially in git.
Toggled with details (tab).

[Yankes]

look great

[kkmic]

Great job volutar!

[xan]

@Volutar which github?

[Warboy1982]

toggled with R now

@xan: https://openxcom.org/index.php/downloads/git-builds/