3D Tiles based Code setup??

I just made my first 3D tile engine about 2 days ago. If you know how to do it in 2D, it's not much different.

Just translate each tile to it's grid location (x * tilesize, z * tilesize), but add it's center so 0,0 is at the top left corner. Make sure all of your tiles are the same deminsions on the x & z axes. You can also do Y rotations at 90 degree intervals with no probs. Y scaling has me confused, though, because of the way normals get messed up, so I ditched that for now. It's best to make sure your tiles can rotate on the Y axis though, or you'll find yourself creating 4 of every tile type.

My first attempted class:

struct KTile
{
	LONG	Index;	// Index of which mesh to use

	FLOAT	YScale;	// Y Scale of Tile

	FLOAT	YRotate;// Y Rotation of Tile

	VECTOR	Grid;	// Grid Location

};

// Placing into location............

// Setup Tile Coordinates

KTile *Tile = Tiles;
for(INT z=0; z<MAPZSIZE; z++)
{
	for(INT x=0; x<MAPXSIZE; x++)
	{
		Tile->YScale = 1.0f;
		Tile->Grid.x = (x * TILEDEM) + (TILEDEM / 2);
		Tile->Grid.z = (z * TILEDEM) + (TILEDEM / 2);
		Tile++;
	}
}

Hope that helps

[edited by - Jiia on May 9, 2004 3:12:23 AM]

**************** THE LAST POST WAS MINE ******************
LOL sry