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3D Tiled Globe for tbs game

Possibility · 2000-08-08T21:46:44

I am trying to make a tile based tbs game like civ but to make the world a true globe, but the problem is trying to figure out how to make a globe. From what I have been able to determine using hexagon tiles dont perfectly make a globe, you have to use a combination of hexagons and pentagons (5 sided) like a soccer ball, and that gets to complex, or I can use geodesic (like a geodesic dome) but that would be all trianlges but it can be easily devided into all hexagons except for 7 points, the points at the 2 poles are pentagons and 5 spots on the equator equally spaced around it are also pentagons, and that is just no good. So I was also looking at using pure pentagons for tiles, but I cant find anything for making variable sized Dodecahedrons (sphere made of pentagons). So if there are any geometry wizzes here or anyone who wants to help me make a truely spherical globe tiled game, email me pull0017@tc.umn.edu or icq me 10122251 (icq is perferred). Possibility