DitMUD's arena system is finally working well, but it needs some glitz. One thing that I thought would be very cool and origional would be to have a view swing. The view swing program would pick the pixel closest to what would be directly between the competitors, and would do a 360-degree swing around that spot. I can manage to pick the point between the fighters but how to do the swing leaves me veritably dumbfounded. Thoughts on how to accomplish this graphically would be much appriciated!
-Lord of Water
ID:265117
 May 11 2002, 4:46 pm
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Yeah, client.eye sounds nice, but I would need some enhancement of normal client.eye movement... I want to swing, not scroll. o.O
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The easiest way I can think of would be to set client eye to the center point, then turn the client.dir. It wouldn't be very smooth though.
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I'm thinking of something more pixel-based. What I've started thinking is this:
I might start by setting client.eye to "blackout", which is a constant pointing to a turf that is black and has black all around it. I would then place objects on the client's screen for all of the tiles on the previous screen. I would then, pixel by pixel, rotate clockwise, keeping track of what pixel should be where and so on, keeping everything in sync with pixel offsets and rotating icons when needed (faster for outlying icons and slower for ones closer to the centre pixel.) Is this feasable with BYOND's refresh rate? | |
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