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Heightmap in 2D, Settlers. How?

Started by kill Feb 24, 2000 at 9:22 PM 4 replies 1k views

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Feb 24, 2000 at 9:22 PM

I have a question about landscapes in 2D. I am thinking of a game engine for the strategy-like game. Games like starcraft, civilization, etc. don''t have real landscapes. My question is, how can u map tiles to different heights in 2D? How did they do it in settlers?

Spellbound

Feb 25, 2000 at 6:15 AM

I don''t remember what Settlers looks like, but if you look at the early Populous series from Bullfrog it is quite easy to see how it''s done.

When rendering the tiles they are just raised according to the level they are on. To avoid gaps between levels you''ll need some tiles with slopes between the two levels.

Zombie

Feb 26, 2000 at 1:08 PM

If I remember right, landscape in Settlers was very smooth compared to Populous.

Spellbound

Feb 26, 2000 at 2:52 PM

They are. I believe they use really small hexagonal tiles for their landscapes.

Zed

Feb 26, 2000 at 5:20 PM

Settlers was made out of triangles forming a pattern on the ground with roads between the crossingpoints

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