Well, my primary goal was to create an updating bigmap using polygons to draw the tiles of the level (or gmap) you were in and scale it down so players could see where other players where on the map. That worked fantastically, and I managed to pull off a lag-free version using GUI controls. After I did this though, I got really bored. I started drawing polygons over the level and adding spinning effects and such to them to see what I could come up with.

The result of this was quite strange, and there was an endless range of effects I could pull off by doing this. In a nutshell, I'm drawing an individual 16 x 16 polygon across each tile within the level and setting the image to the tile set in use. After doing this, I positioned each 16 x 16 polygon, now set to the image of the tile at its point in the level, next to each other to form a collection of polygons that look effectively like the level you're in.

Since you can apply effects such as spin, alpha changing, zooming and rgb changes to polygons, I started to experiment with some simple maths. After a while, I found I could pull off some pretty neat effects.

The method used to draw these polygons is very laggy, and there are other ways of doing it. The reason I did it this way is because I wanted to manipulate every individual tile and add it separate effects.

Me and Suka tested this on Delteria and had an hour of fun just by watching what kind of things I could make these polygons do. I decided to video it since you can't really get a decent understanding of what I'm trying to talk about here just by looking at screen shots. If anybody would like to look at the code, I can post it here. For now though, I'll just post the video.

There's really no use to any of this apart from a little creative fun. Thanks for reading



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