Detecting Hills between 2 points

[Muhahahahaaa]

hi is there any cpu friendly way to detect a hill between 2 points?

for now i do a for each "real" between 5 and distance between 2 points.

if point with offset angle distance = point 1 + "real" > ground height ...


but these are alot of points being checked and for different cases....

any way to do this different?

 

[Dr Super Good]

You could ptobably only check the squares it passes through.

Basically, the terrain is made up from a mesh, thus it can only hit the terrain if it passes through the area between points on the mesh.

 

[BlueBerryWizard]

You could start by using custom script instead of GUI.

Example:

while (lv_i <= gv_totalPlayers) {
//Actions go here.
lv_i += 1;
}

I'm really not sure what you're doing right now. Post your script?

 

[Muhahahahaaa]

i'll check every point between point 1 and point 2 (point with polar offset +3 ). if the checked points height is higher than (let's say all hills are higher than 20) 20 it saves that point.

@Dr what exactly do you mean with checking the squares? how would this look like?

@blue i don't get it

 

[Dr Super Good]

Well, each tile in the game is made up of 4 points. Infact, each triangle of the terrain is made up of 3 points. Thus all you need to do is work out where these are and check if the line collides with the triangle (vector mathimatics).

This will optimize your search to be 100% accurate for a line at the least cost (only searches collision with tiles it passes over).