Re: Another nice feature option?

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From: Marcin Grzegorczyk
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:46

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Carlos Correia wrote:
> Another feature i always asked myself why C. Sawyer
> did not introduce was a kind of "map rotation", like
> "Sim City 2000" (i think).

It would certainly be possible to do the way it's done in SimCity 2000 - 
that is, by changing the screen positions and order of sprites, and 
drawing them horizontally mirrored for 90- and 270-degree rotations.  Of 
course, the view rotation would then feel as unnatural as it does in 
SC2000, but it could still be useful.

I actually have thought of that feature for some time, but with the very 
limited time I've recently had to work on TTDPatch and related stuff, I 
haven't yet gone farther than actually drawing the sprites mirrored. 
That's just the beginning; a whole lot of other things (sprite sorting, 
landscape<->pixel coordinate mapping, ...) will need updating before 
this feature could really work.  Also, multi-tile buildings (esp. 
industry buildings) would probably require special support.

-- 
Marcin Grzegorczyk

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