Recent content by twoski

I have read about one approach where you draw a ray from a given point to the right then count how many times it collides with a polygon edge. If the number is odd, it's inside. If it's even, it's outside. The issue with this approach, i think, is that it wouldn't be any faster than my current...

Let's say we have a somewhat complex polygon shape. We know the list of 2d vectors that make up its border loop. Now let's say i want to create a list of points within this polygon. Currently i am using ray traces to create a grid of points that fall within the polygon. I'm certain there is...

I'm more concerned with players being able to steal other player's resources. For example, the 2 middle guys will have a more aggressive situation since their resources are pretty close together and thus, those provinces will be high value to them. Other guys might have an easier time since...

And here is a potential 10 player layout. Not sure if the resource positions are totally fair though.

Well, unfortunately there's a lack of knowledge as to which player is being placed at which location. For all intents and purposes, it's considered random assignment. So we need to always account for all players and ensure they all have a fair start, which makes it difficult. After much...

Hello guys, i have a unique problem to solve. Let's imagine you're playing a board game similar to Risk. The game can be played by anywhere from 2 to 22 players, and the game board will be resized accordingly based on the number of players. The board also wraps, so edge provinces connect to the...

Made some progress. Using bezier splines for province edges has given them a much more natural look. I need to add more bezier knots on the edges that are larger i think. Promising results so far though.

Sorry that's not a great picture. A and B are 2 vectors in a 3d Space. I want to project Vector B to Vector A in a given direction, ie. Normalized Vector C.

Let's say i have 2 arbitrary vectors in a 3d space. I want to project Vector A to Vector B using a specified normal. edit: better image A is green, B is red, C is red arrow. Blue is result. In this case, i want to project green vector to red vector in the red direction. This would give me...

Ah yes, that worked nicely. A few corner cases to work on and it'll be functional. Next thing to work on: Currently the polygons are very basic. I want to introduce some variance to their edges, with the goal being to create some more organic-looking shapes. Take, for example, this...

Okay, so it turns out the simplest approach was this: The center of each triangle formed by node connections becomes an anchor point for the polygons being drawn around the nodes. It works well except now i need an algorithm to sort these points in order to create a polygon which may or may...

The red squares are the big circles, the yellow squares represent the 8 potential connections that the big circle can have. In that example image, the leftmost province has 8 connections. The top left and bottom right province have a diagonal connection which means the top right cannot have any...

I'm afraid i don't see how this logic would remove the gaps. Assuming that you're using the connection center when constructing triangles... In situations where a province has no diagonal you can see the issue.

I'm using Unity with C# since it has built in UI stuff, and making interactive things with unity is much easier. The large circles denote provinces (ie. the center of a province) and the small circles (with their colored line) denote a connection between 2 province nodes. My first attempt at...

Hello, I am working on a map generator for a game called Dominions. I plan to make it open source once it's functional. Maps in this game typically wrap vertically and horizontally, so the generator must create maps that seamlessly wrap on the X and Y axis. Typically (for even player counts)...