What's the user interface for this going to be? Point-and-click, I find myself hoping; a keyboard interface for navigating around non-square grids is confusing enough (just try Cube in non-cubic mode using the numeric keypad to navigate) without it also being displayed at a skew angle due to 3D.
try Cube in non-cubic mode using the numeric keypad to navigate
I'll get right on that :) No, I mean, I agree. I don't really know if it will come to fruition, I'm still experimenting.
But the intention was to move clicking or dragging. Although, your keyboard is laid out in a hexagonal pattern, so that would make sense too.
without it also being displayed at a skew angle due to 3D.
:) Yes. Although that's just arbitrary, it's trivial to rotate the view or make it top down. (It may be even more misleading because of the exaggerated kite shape of the board, but that IS due to the crazy shape of the map, not the crazy angle of view :) (The array-to-hex coord mapping makes a full 2d array into that, but if you partially fill it you can get a square or hexagonal hexagonal grid.))
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Date: 2008-09-04 09:34 am (UTC)I'll get right on that :) No, I mean, I agree. I don't really know if it will come to fruition, I'm still experimenting.
But the intention was to move clicking or dragging. Although, your keyboard is laid out in a hexagonal pattern, so that would make sense too.
without it also being displayed at a skew angle due to 3D.
:) Yes. Although that's just arbitrary, it's trivial to rotate the view or make it top down. (It may be even more misleading because of the exaggerated kite shape of the board, but that IS due to the crazy shape of the map, not the crazy angle of view :) (The array-to-hex coord mapping makes a full 2d array into that, but if you partially fill it you can get a square or hexagonal hexagonal grid.))