On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 07:05 +0300, Arthur Borba Lopes wrote: > One thing I'm feeling about the discussion so far is that the project > (or at least this part of it's graphics) is at a too early stage and > it needs simpler graphical representation before going into something > as detailed and time-consuming as 3D. > For instance, the HQs thing: If that changes and we have a whole > concept created upfront, if we feel like changing the HQs position to > bigger websites, than we might have a lot of effort thrown away > because of bad planning. > Do you agree or am I crazy here?
It makes sense, yes - we need to keep in mind to not go too far without better knowing what we want. The discussion is actually about this - trying to move forward in this area, to try to experiment things. In alpha1.0, we have a simple tree/2D representation, this should already help to see what we need here. But if there are simple things we could test that would help you to explore things here, it could be cool to see if it's doable. > Also, I'm thinking that 3D may be a little too much, here. Do you think 3D may not help with the representation? How would you think it is best to represent things here, at the moment? > Looking at the project as it is, I find it hard to define which > approach is better suited, but I think that the real-time approach, if > chosen, may be a much too big step, when it comes to internet based > games. I mean, there's a reason why the majority of internet games are > Flash-based, haha! (Also, if you guys have any game or something that > works with interactive 3d on the internet, please, do tell. I'm always > looking to see if that is possible in more doable levels). That the thing - 3D in browsers (and without Flash) is moving forward very fast at the moment, we'll soon be able to do very cool things... For examples, you can have a look at what Cedric does: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=7565&&srch=credic#msg_7565 And: http://www.benjoffe.com/code/tools/functions3d/ http://www.benjoffe.com/code/demos/canvascape/ http://alteredqualia.com/cubeout/ Xavier. > > I'll look into it with the more experienced people at the studio I > work at and I'll feed you guys back. > _______________________________________________ Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis
