From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27273 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2003 09:55:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27266 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 09:55:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO outbound28-2.lax.untd.com) (64.136.28.160) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2003 09:55:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 24492 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 09:55:36 -0000 Received: from 66-52-240-9.sttl.dial.netzero.com (HELO vangogh) (66.52.240.9) by smtpout01.lax.untd.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2003 09:55:36 -0000 From: "Brandon J. Van Every" To: "xconq" Subject: RE: Non flat maps (use pentagons and septagons on maps) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00894.txt.bz2 Eric McDonald wrote: > > Xconq already supports east-west tori. If you join north and south > as well, then you can get a sphere (depending on what type of > folding you use). A sphere, while preventing someone from > starting in a corner, can be a mess to deal with. Are you sure you don't mean that Xconq supports east-west cylinders, and north-south-east-west torii? A NSEW wraparound map is not a sphere, it is a torus. Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA 20% of the world is real. 80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.