Hello Nicol, Um…think about that question a moment. There is no such thing as a keyboard with six arrow keys. So no you don’t need a special keyboard to play my 3d games. In answer to your question to climb up or down you would use a keyboard combo like control-up arrow or control-down arrow to ascend or descend a climbable object. The shift-left and shift-right arrow keys are used to sidestep left or right and shift-up and shift-down are used to walk forward or backward. The up arrow key by itself runs forward, down arrow spins you around 180 degrees, and the left and right arrow keys are used to turn you left or right. I’ve recently added control=-left and control-right to do a 90-degree turn left or right as well. As for your paper example that’s way off. The horizontal line, the x axis, runs East-West across the paper. The vertical line, the z axis, runs North-South. However, that’s only a 2d plane. If we stuck your pencil through the center of the page, make a poll running from floor to ceiling, that would constitute a third axis of movement, the y axis, which runs up and down. Does that make any sense? Let’s look at it another way. I know you have played Shades of Doom before. You know in that game you can go North, South, East, and West. But you can’t climb up and down on ropes and things. With my 3d games it will be similar to that accept instead of being able to go North, South, East, and West you can also climb up and down to get to rooms above and below your current location.
HTH On 7/18/10, Nicol <nicoljaco...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > HI Tom > Yeah, makes sense somewhat. > Although, on paper it is not possible to draw a line going up in the air? Is > it? > On paper the vertical line is the line going from north to eastt and the > horizontal line is going from south to west? > Then you get the diagonal line that goes oblique. > So with a 3d game like you are creating, do I need a keybord with 6 arrow > keys? > Do I understand you correctly? > In your 3d game I will move east and west with my left and right arrow > keys, norrrrrth and south with my up and down arrow keys and from floor to > ceiling with yet another 2 additional arrow keys? > > -----Original Message----- > From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org]on > Behalf Of Thomas Ward > Sent: 11 July 2010 09:02 PM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important MOTA News > > Hi Nicol, > No, the line running from left to right and the line running from > front to back are completely different. They are perpendicular to each > other. That means running in two completely different directions. Let > me give you a simple example maybe you can under stand. > On a piece of paper you draw a line from left and right, east and > west, that represents the x axis of the plane. Now, lets draw a line > running from top to bottom of the paper that runs North and South and > call that axis y. At this point we have your cross shape that points > to the four compass directions North, South, East, and West. Finally, > we are going to add a third dimension to this sheet of paper by > driving a stake through the center of that cross. We now have a new > axis running from floor to ceiling and we will call that axis z. When > we get done we have three lines all pointing to six different cardinal > directions East, West, North, South, floor, and the ceiling. Make > sense? > > HTH > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > Internal Virus Database is out of date. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.707 / Virus Database: 270.14.60/2496 - Release Date: 11/11/09 > 09:40:00 > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
