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Just asking... Would it be possible to see the game from different angles -I mean rotate camera by 45 degrees (like RCT for example)? And if yes will you guys do that too? That would be just great!

And I wanted to Really good job so far!

It would be a lot of work, huge numbers of graphics would need redrawing from different angles..

and what would be the point?

mike[F] wrote:It would be a lot of work, huge numbers of graphics would need redrawing from different angles..

If you can rotate in 90 degrees angles you will need 4 times the amount of sprites. Or you need to use 3D models.

When rotating in 45 degrees angles you will need 8 times the amount of sprites.

Vongodric, that's a lot, as mike[F] said. And why do you want the rotation-option?

Sorry, I meant 90 degrees not 45, My mistake. Sorry!

Purno wrote:If you can rotate in 90 degrees angles you will need 4 times the amount of sprites.

Logical speaking (360/90=4) that true,
but from a practical point thats absolutely not needed.
(still not easy to implement)

I say again, what is the point?

Truckloads of effort for something thats not needed and just stupid, if you think about it.

In SimCity in did make some sense. Because huge buildings could cover up areas behind them. But in OTTD this is rarely the case. I always found rotating the map confusing though. But if someone is finished with re-drawing thousands of sprites for all three additional angles, I'll be willing to implement it.

dominik81 wrote:In SimCity in did make some sense. Because huge buildings could cover up areas behind them. But in OTTD this is rarely the case. I always found rotating the map confusing though....

which is why they introduced transparent buildings.

dominik81 wrote:In SimCity in did make some sense. Because huge buildings could cover up areas behind them. But in OTTD this is rarely the case.

Granted, the visual benefits in this case are less than the expected benefits
of being able to rotate the map.
(personally I think OTTD don't really needs its)

Born Acorn wrote:... stupid ...

yea, yea we hear you.

Implementing a basic rotation system would be nice, but I see no reason why any buildings that aren't square need to have more sprites drawn for them. We can just use the ones from the original angle, and the function will be pretty much the same.

You could always implementing it by rotating the view without rotating the buildings. This would look slightly wrong, but I think it would be acceptable.

It might be even more confusing though. But then, those whom it confuses don't need to use it

Tyrell wrote:

Born Acorn wrote:... stupid ...

yea, yea we hear you.

are you posting with an intent to cause trouble?

Patchman wrote:You could always implementing it by rotating the view without rotating the buildings. This would look slightly wrong, but I think it would be acceptable.

Sure, implementing it this way would absolutely be possible. But I won't do it until someone redraws all those graphics.

Snorbuckle wrote:Implementing a basic rotation system would be nice, but I see no reason why any buildings that aren't square need to have more sprites drawn for them. We can just use the ones from the original angle, and the function will be pretty much the same.

Yes. But there are all the industries to consider.

mike[F] wrote:

Snorbuckle wrote:Implementing a basic rotation system would be nice, but I see no reason why any buildings that aren't square need to have more sprites drawn for them. We can just use the ones from the original angle, and the function will be pretty much the same.

Yes. But there are all the industries to consider.

One extra sprite for each industry then.

Snorbuckle wrote:One extra sprite for each industry then.

or just flip the sprites, if needed.

mike[F] wrote:It would be a lot of work, huge numbers of graphics would need redrawing from different angles..

I think redrawing graphocs could come later, rotating should be a great feature even with odd graphoc that don't rotate.

Some games (Sim City 2000 ?) allow user to rotate map, but don't rotate graphics. It's near to be useless. The only graphics to be adaped it form indutries, because they are no squared.

Tyrell wrote:

Snorbuckle wrote:One extra sprite for each industry then.

or just flip the sprites, if needed.

Flipping is the solution

Can flipping generate the backs, though?