3D commander view?

schumacher343

<div class="IPBDescription">I don't know if it's come up yet...</div>Is it possible to use a rotating/zooming feature for commanders?
that way multi level maps would be much more possible and commanders could get a better view of things
I can't stand it when i'm comming and i try to drop a marine some med packs and they land on the overhead rafters or vents.

Any thoughts?

locallyunscene

<a href="http://unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=104155&hl=zoom" target="_blank">This thread</a> is relevant to your interests.

schumacher343

you gave me a link to a thread with a link to the thread you wanted me to read with a link in it to the podcast i should hear....

couldn't you have just told me? lol

Brute

As you have settled your case, i may as well take over this thread.

I just wondered whether the commander may have a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_projection#Orthographic_projection" target="_blank">parallel perspective,</a> for instance an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_projection" target="_blank">isometric projection</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_projection" target="_blank">oblique projection</a> (as used in the military).

see example A
<img src="http://home.nexgo.de/brute/iso_3way.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />

i think this will reduce optical distortion as you scroll over the map and result in a more strategy-game-feeling
as every 3D modeling program i know is able to produce that kind of view, i guess this is within the bounds of possibility
wikipedia says about that: <i>Increasing the focal length and distance of the camera to infinity in a perspective projection results in an orthographic projection</i>

Sewlek

well, its just a matter of how you want to project everything on your screen