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Posted: 9th Apr 2004 20:02

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ok i'm begining to work on a simple game that basicly has the player flying down a matrix canyon dispatching baddies as he goes. The problem i've been having is generating a reasonable looking canyon, this is the code i have so far for the canyon generation, it doesn't work to well and i'm still having trouble geting it to generate a nice smooth canyon with some general roughness on the walls, any help would be appreciated.

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rem make the canyon
rem offset the position of the matrix (will be changed later)
offset = 23

rem make the canyon as long as the matrix (50 tiles)
for n1 = 0 to 50

   rem sx = start x, ex = end x
   sx = rnd(4)
   ex = 11 + rnd(4)
   for n2 = sx to ex
      rem set the matrix height
      set matrix height 1,n2+offset,n1,get matrix height(1,n2+offset,n1) - ((ex - sx) - abs(n2 - (ex - sx)/2)) * 20
   next n2
next n1

rem update the matrix
update matrix 1

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3 Dimensional Chat / Generating a matrix canyon