Thanks for the info guys, now here is somthing a little more specficic:

What would be the best way of representing hills and stuff on a tile. to give an example:

I don't my hills to look like teraces:

     +--     |  +--+  |--+  

so far i have been thinking of having a terain lofting grid for each tile

(in 2D)

one tile

   -1-2-3-1-2-3       -       / |2     -  |  --     /   \ /1   -     -  

or, maybe a difret terain type in each corner (if I do the tiles in a higher resolution than normal (tiles per meter))

example (with terain types):
(again in 2D)

+---+|2 1||1 1|+---+ 

and say 1 was land & 2 was air it would be like this:

 //+ 

what do you guys think?

Andrew

Edited by - slartibartfast00 on August 16, 2000 10:33:18 PM

Just felt like bringing this post back up to the top

That is only because nobody has answered your question. Come on people... I am too tired to think, somebody must know how to do this..

Maybe you could try to ask this in a new post? It might get the right responses

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BTW, I know thats why it was down in the middle, I felt it might get more attention at the top