Re: Representing 3d Staircases? (Python)
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I honestly don't know. You've taken what is a very simple encoding of a list of values and overcomplicated it.
All the technique I've given you does is take a list like [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5] and make it really really small by using the fact that it has lots of repeated values. This isn't even related to maps. All I've described is a thing that takes a list like that and makes it small.
You go map[x][y][z]. There's an outer list that holds all the y lists. Then each of the y lists has some z lists inside it. You are just replacing the z lists with compressed lists. Absolutely nothing more happens here.
You know which x-y pair your compressed z axis goes with. When you decompress it, you just use the fact that you did map[2][3] to get to that array and fill the 2 and the 3 in as you go.
Let me walk through this.
Map is a list of lists of lists.
map[x] is a list of lists.
map[x][y] is a list.
map[x][y][z] is a tile.
Now, with the compressed version:
map is a list of lists of compressed lists.
map[x] is a list of compressed lists
map[x][y] is a compressed list.
map[x][y][z] is a tile.
If you still don't get it, there is literally no better way I can explain this other than to tell you to google voxels and run length encoding and stuff like that to find examples or something. If this is still confusing, I suggest either doing small maps or getting a library if you can find one.
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