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Tileable Game Enviroment

by tODD k. · in Torque Game Engine · 08/26/2008 (5:52 pm) · 4 replies

I was wondering if this was possible: I'd like to create an Animal Crossing style tileable streaming game environment.

For example, a panning camera will be looking down at the player and when the player goes to the next tile/scene, the camera will jump to that tile.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ZxnEdmbQQ

But to start I want to just get the camera rotation locked to pan with the character. I've found a thread from 2002 and I'm not sure it's still applicable: http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=4357. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Associate James Ford
Sickhead Games
#1
08/26/2008 (8:18 pm)
Personally I find the "tiles" in animal crossing completely unnecessary and distracting, why not just have the camera directly over the player the whole time? Unless there is a performance reason. Which is possible on the gamecube, perhaps they want to easily cull out all but the current tile for all processing.

As far as implementing this, you have a significant amount of work to do. I believe there are several camera or "advanced camera" resources that might be useful, at least to look at and learn from.

By default the control object IS the camera object so thats the first thing to break. You should check out the GameConnection methods setControlObject and setCameraObject.

Torque Owner tODD k.
#2
08/27/2008 (2:41 am)
Many thanks I will look into those resources. Yup this will be some work!

Torque Owner John Doppler Schiff
#3
08/27/2008 (7:31 pm)
Hiya Todd,
That camera jump when entering a new tile is really jarring. Bleah! I agree with James, hover the camera over the player and make the transitions smooth and seamless. The Advanced Camera resource in "God Mode" will help tremendously with that.

Torque Owner tODD k.
#4
08/27/2008 (8:13 pm)
Aww c'mon stop picking on Animal Crossing! ;)

After checking out the video "God Mode" seems to be exactly what I need. My first step will be in that direction. Thanks.