Re: Curving of the earth in Battlefield 2 ?
- From: Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:20:23 GMT
In article <47c1b900$0$8266$4d87748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
RF wrote:
"Dasuraga" <Dasuraga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 23, 4:09 pm, TheBoffin <spam-no-thank...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The Earth is flat I tell you!
Gameplay-wise, it makes sense to have flat levels, especially
considering that, in real life, the curvature of the earth isn't
really obvious(except for specific cases, like a boat going into the
horizon)
Well... I would say that it is obvious, otherwise you'd be able to see
mountains, tall buildings, and other such things from much, much farther
away.
Okay, maybe it's just obvious to me, because I think things like that.
RF.
Not really, because perspective would make them appear smaller and
smaller over a distance until they are no longer visible.
Perspective does not make things shrink into invisibility; haze does.
What a curved surface gets you is: if you stand atop a tall building,
mountains in the distance will have their foothills obscured by the
planet.
In a flat world, you'd still see the base of the mountain, albeit
smaller, due to the perspective you mention.
Very few games have enough distance-view that it would make a difference.
I'm working on a game with a world that's 1000km across. That's roughly
the length of the state of California. I can't think of any planetary
feature that is in San Diego that one could see from Medford Oregon,
even while 40,000' up in an airplane -- quite the height advantage, plus
very-clear air.
I'm pretty sure that even something huge like a Hurricane or mountain
range just cant be seen from that distance, due to atmospheric
interference.
The only thing that can be seen from bigger distances are celestial
(Sun, Moon, stars), and that's because we're seeing them through only
~20 miles of atmosphere which, given decipitation, is the equivolent of
about 6 miles of air.
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