On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 04:06:33 GMT, Graeme Dice wrote: >Raymond Lee wrote: >> If all you have are eight directions of movement, then hex is one

/~amitp/gameprog.html#Hex there is a good summary of hex map information for games. I checked out all the links when I was trying to do some hex map stuff and found the hexpart method

/~amitp/gameprog.html. But in general, as >far as I can see, there is practically no literature or even interest >anywhere. All the books etc I have found on games programming

IceraceNHL wrote: | >BTW, this project has a very large portion of it written in Python! | | Wow, I thought Python was an interpreted language and

Hansjoerg Malthaner wrote: | Hi ! | | As a part of a simulation program, I want to implement some automatic, | evolutionary growth of a city, much like

/~amitp/Articles/TileFAQ.txt With this method, you actually create a sighting plan for all desired squares from a single square rather than calculating it as you go. This has the

Brandon Van Every wrote: | | But, generally speaking, all other things aren't equal, and one's ability to | judge the utility of the editor

Joseph J. Strout wrote: | I'm tinkering with an idea for a war game which takes place in basically a | 2.5D environment. That is, the pieces move

/~amitp/gameprog.html#Tiles See "tile-based game FAQ" in particular. You probably want to write your DirectX drawing and setup routines to work in windowed mode for

/~amitp/gameprog.html#Tiles Read the Tile FAQ. Darrin Adams PlayfulMinds Strf wrote in article <6malf2$39u@mtts01.Teleglobe.net>... > Where could I find some good

Chris Hecker wrote: | | As I've said before, I have never met a piece of math that I couldn't | apply to game programming, and this includes

>, amitp@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Amit Patel) wrote: | | > | >This wasn't for a game, but I was working on a program that displayed | >information about the rocks underneath

/~amitp/gameprog.html#Paths Has some great information; all in all, this page is great. Note that there are links on his page to another page on his site that has a *whole bunch* of his

Bryan Stout wrote: | I am now looking over the book _Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable | Object-Oriented Software_ by Gamma et al. It definitely

Kent wrote: | Hi there, | as all games, they have many informations, like enemies' data, items, | magics, maps, etc. | Is it better to store all of

Stefan Boberg wrote: | William R. Tipton wrote: | | > Can you use things like templates and the STL with console games? | | You can, but I would not

/Vista/6774/index.html (choose Tile based) http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html http://fastgraph.com/diana.html (download Chapter 5) Andy