From: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca
To: Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>
Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com, xconq-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Weather tidbit
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 19:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0501041432001.7527@opal.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414E41E2.2030502@phy.cmich.edu>
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Eric McDonald wrote:
> > I think if I wanted to model a hurricane, I might do it by having the
> > storm be a unit that detonates on every turn but doesn't destroy itself
> To the best of my knowledge, the wind code acts as an impediment to
> movement and not a driver for it. But, it would be interesting to extend
Digging through my mail to see what messages from my vacation I could
delete, I found the above very old message and thought of another
game-design idea that seems worth mentioning for the archives: what could
be done would be to make the "hurricane" unit be controlled by iplayer,
and make it move more or less at random. I think that could be done by
making it blind and invulnerable, and probably also unable to attack
except with its detonation. Then I think iplayer will tend to move it
randomly. If it's also set up so that it only *can* move in the direction
the wind is blowing, then we have a unit that moves where the wind
carries it.
--
Matthew Skala
mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca Embrace and defend.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-04 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-19 23:17 Using terrain coatings and existing code to model topography, weather, and vegetation Lincoln Peters
2004-09-19 23:32 ` mskala
2004-09-20 0:24 ` Eric McDonald
2004-09-20 0:30 ` Andreas Bringedal
2004-09-20 1:33 ` mskala
2004-09-20 2:35 ` Lincoln Peters
2004-09-21 0:43 ` Eric McDonald
2005-01-04 19:30 ` mskala [this message]
2004-09-20 0:32 ` Lincoln Peters
2004-09-20 0:45 ` D. Cooper Stevenson
2004-09-19 23:44 ` Coatings Eric McDonald
2004-09-20 0:45 ` Coatings Lincoln Peters
2004-09-20 0:58 ` Coatings Elijah Meeks
2004-09-21 2:09 ` Coatings Eric McDonald
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