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Culture20
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Problems with 3d combat:
Orz Turret: Hard enough to aim with it in 2d now in 3d?
Supox: Another strafing keys for up and down? Way too harder....
I'd assume the Orz turret only rotates in 2D, even in a 3D environment.
Supox: you already have those extra keys for roll & pitch
P.S Oh yea forgot, another big problem: Who will do all of this? 
Well, I thought it was obvious from my post, but a classmate and I are starting the basics. I'm going to try and keep it as true to SC as possible at first, but I'm asking questions here to iron out points that don't translate from 2D to 3D easily. Ship-Balance doesn't matter; I'm curious to see how the extra dimension really affects gameplay.
I planned this idea as 3rd person and 3d. Its very very hard to discribe over a forum. The camara could not be locked behind the ship because you couldnt see anything behind you. You would have to program the camara to pick a view where it can see your ship and the aponent, and maybe any near asteroids/plantes/mines.
If you dive down, then you appear back at the top. Its like the square arena in sc2 but instead its a cube.
The controls would be hard. You could use the mouse for stearing. Most turns you in all directions. The mouse buttons are roll left and right. Then with your other hand youd have to cover 3 bottons. Thrust/fire/special. How you could rotate the orz turret with this interface is beond me. Maybe it could rotate automatically:D
So if you laid out the 3D map into 4D, it'd be a hyper-torus? Neat!
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No doubt about it though. You would have to change the way the weapons fire on many ships. (Or like how the chmmr zipzats orbit)
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I predict a steep learning curve, because you wont always be facing the direction that your ship is, that is if you are trying my idea word by word, or if you are making the camara lock behind your ship.
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Culture20
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ShofixtiwithAK47:
I think DJ was refering to his own #1, not yours. I don't think it would be un-fun, but I do think it would be technically impossible to run on current-day machines (and still make the planet look like a sphere). A proportionally sized planet that looked like a planet would have so many triangles that you'd bog down in computation.
Chrispy:
I'm only doing XvT camera modes; I can't fathom the idea you expressed, especially how one would pilot a craft when one's view of said craft is constantly changing (without one's control?).
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Death 999
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Well, you could have multiple projections into 2D. Split-screen view for each player.
One would be the First-person (project away depth).
Another camera angle could be looking at the two ships from the planet's surface. This would smoothly follow the ships.
Another angle could look at the two ships from a point of view which maximizes their proper motions (i.e. captures as much as possible of the motion of the ships). This would dance around a bit.
Another angle could look at the ships and the planet from a point orthogonal to the plane containing the three of them (in the case that they are lined up, keep the old angle). Note that in the case of ships flying in a plane, this comes out the same as the current view.
All three would scale the ships depending on how far away they were.
Another strategy would be to put a low-pass filter on the camera angle changes. That would give the impression of an acceleration more clearly (by displacing the ship from its normal position), but would allow for camera angle changes.
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Culture20
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So, would the camera from the surface be a fish-eye lens?
I don't really understand the view which maximizes visible movement. I assume you look from an angle orthogonal to the two vectors? If the two have the same vector (or directional component thereof), the view would keep the direction it held just previous to the "error".
I really like the last view; I'd forgotten that you could include the planet and make a plane out of the 3 of them.
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