Bernd
11/15/2019 (Fri) 18:22:49
No.32175
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11/15/2019 (Fri) 18:22:49
No.32175
del
>>32169
yes spherical projection of actual planet would give distortions on a plane and basically not desirable for a game that have "square" space rather than spherical
in civ its indeed rather cylindrical coords but nothing was stopping them to make them fully toroidal, it was design choice i suppose (and it makes some things simpler, for example calculating distance between two points in toroidal wrapped space is not that simple (the usual method will not [fully] work (and basically virtually nothing 'unwrapped' will work too))
yes spherical projection of actual planet would give distortions on a plane and basically not desirable for a game that have "square" space rather than spherical
in civ its indeed rather cylindrical coords but nothing was stopping them to make them fully toroidal, it was design choice i suppose (and it makes some things simpler, for example calculating distance between two points in toroidal wrapped space is not that simple (the usual method will not [fully] work (and basically virtually nothing 'unwrapped' will work too))