<r> Ok. This is a slightly odd post, I admit. Anyway, I've been playing COTA a bit recently and just the other day I noticed something weird about my play style.<br/>
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Firstly, I'm really not a wargamer. I have no real history with the genre at all. And I normally lose. So when I pick up COTA ...

<t> Yeah, as you say it would be fairly easy to make a 3D representation, but the gaming aspect of it is what would take time. If you just wanted a flyby or possibly a more interactive way to check out a unit's LOS then you could do that, but it would have to be seperate from the gameplay map. <br ...

<t> Oooh... 3D!<br/>
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The maps already have the contour data, so essentially you already have a height field because you have your X,Y coordinates with a contour height that will give you a Z. You'd probably want a parser to take just that information and put it into a faster to load file ...

I haven't played the game for a few months, not since working on it in the Christmas break, but from memory if you hold down Shift while clicking the various buttons they will go to the previous option (much in the way described in wish 7)

<t> Sadly this is my legacy bug&nbsp;[:(] From memory, saving the settings was the last thing I worked on before I went back to uni, and I didn't quite catch all the bugs before I left (although I thought I had)<br/>
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I've stepped through that code a number of times. I'm not really sure why ...

<t> I feel that, in the interest of the game being released sometime, I should remind you of the difficulty encountered when we tried messing with the credits photos while I was there [:'(]<br/>
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Nice work on getting it done by the way [:)] Hopefully you'll have finished your much deserved ...

<t> It's not quite as simple as just dumping the game out there.<br/>
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The fact that there's an out of sync bug indicates that there is something screwy going on in the underlying game mechanics, because the Out of Sync bug is raised when a checksum value is inconsistant. Hence there's ...

<t> You do of course realise that "Daniel will explain it to you" quickly becomes "Daniel will do it for you", don't you [;)]<br/>
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J/K, it's all good. I'm loving this job.<br/>
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Dave mentioned in the "New Features for COTA" thread that this feature wouldn't be present in COTA, but ...

Don't do that, it'll count as UI work instead of AI work and if I'm still around it'll probably be dumped on me [:(]

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