[ZeroSixx]

My friend and I were considering making a tactics RPG style game, and we really wanted to incorporate both radial movement, as opposed to tile, and difficult terrain. Now radial movement in general is not a problem, but when you throw in the difficult terrain, I'm not exactly sure how you would account for the loss in movement area, and render that to the screen instead of a circle. Anyone have experience and/or know of any decent tutorials?

Thanks.

[JackOfAllTrades]

Probably better suited for Game Programming. Moving there.

[ButchDean]

ZeroSixx, on 19 June 2011 - 09:54 AM, said:

My friend and I were considering making a tactics RPG style game, and we really wanted to incorporate both radial movement, as opposed to tile, and difficult terrain. Now radial movement in general is not a problem, but when you throw in the difficult terrain, I'm not exactly sure how you would account for the loss in movement area, and render that to the screen instead of a circle. Anyone have experience and/or know of any decent tutorials?

Thanks.

Are you taking into account the height of the terrain as you move around it?

[ZeroSixx]

ButchDean, on 19 June 2011 - 12:58 PM, said:

ZeroSixx, on 19 June 2011 - 09:54 AM, said:

My friend and I were considering making a tactics RPG style game, and we really wanted to incorporate both radial movement, as opposed to tile, and difficult terrain. Now radial movement in general is not a problem, but when you throw in the difficult terrain, I'm not exactly sure how you would account for the loss in movement area, and render that to the screen instead of a circle. Anyone have experience and/or know of any decent tutorials?

Thanks.

Are you taking into account the height of the terrain as you move around it?

That's the plan.

[stayscrisp]

So you need some kind of pathfinding heuristic?

Even though you are not using tiles you could still have a tile or grid based map and the cost of moving across certain tiles is higher than others. You could still move wherever but whenever a character passes over a tile its cost is added to the overall cost of movement and certain tiles have a higher cost value.

I think you can essentially just adapt the principles of tile based movement to allow any movement.

Hope that helps somewhat

This post has been edited by stayscrisp: 22 June 2011 - 02:09 AM

[ZeroSixx]

That's what I was thinking at first, but a problem arises when you start thinking about how to stop in the middle of tiles versus at the beginning or end of them, as well as diagonal movement. I think it's better to just use a float for position and Pythagorean to determine movement distance.

Edit: Now that I think about it, combining the two could yield nice results. However, visual representation will be interesting. Thank you!