Hi ALL,
I’m new into 3D world and I was wondering if some experienced peoplen could offer me advice and help.
I’m working on WW2 opearitonal wargame using hexes (anyone played WW2 board games before ? ). My game egine is already coded in 2D, I’m pretty much happy with it except that it 2D it looks a bit boring compared to 3D world.
I’m just getting 3D book called "Real-Time rendering By: Eric Haines, Tomas Moller "
to learn something about theory…
I did take a look at Directx7, too complex and gave up, tried Directx8 but it still seems a bit confusing and still doesn’t seems that clean, not a lot of tutorials and documentation around. I have only very briefly touched OpenGL a long time ago and it seems cleaner than Directx. Here is what I need for my game:
I would like to have 2D plane representing my map in 3D world. I would apply 2D textures with transparency to this map so that I can draw hexes. Then I need to have deformed cubes representing as counters. I need to be able to use my mouse to navigate on the hex map. Meaning as I move my mouse on the screen to trasfer that into 3D world with view so that when I click on a location on the map I know which hex I’m selecting. Also I need to be able to select a unit couter box and move it few hexes around. Also I need to be able to use mouse or keyboard to move around in the world, rotate, zoom in/out of the map. Fog would be nice too. That’s all, just cubes and 2D plane in terms of objects. Is there an engine for this that would help me ? How can I start looking at this idea from OpenGL point of view. Any ideas where can I find some tutorial for this purpose ? I would assume I still need DirectSound and DirectPlay…should be a problem to use with OpenGL right ?
Thanks a lot for your comments and help.
Peter Fisla
PS: My system:
P3 500Mhz, 256MB ram, TNT2Ultra, SBLive!