Re: Non flat maps (use pentagons and septagons on maps)

[Emmanuel Fritsch <emmanuel dot fritsch at ign dot fr>]

Jakob Ilves a écrit :
> 
> Hello!
> 
> The orbiter is back, and in this email I'm considering to take a 
> trip to the moon...  And you are welcome to join me on the ride...
> [..]
> Imagine the 32 patches making up a leather football to be a 
> playfield for Xconq.  Ok, it would be a heck of a small map but still.

You may enlarge it 
- each pentagone of your leather football is an inaceesible area. 
- each hexagone is divided into as many hexagone as you want. 
You may produce a simily spheric map.  


> Actually, by using septagons (7-sided "hexes") in clever 
> ways it's possible to create a playfield with "tubes" 
> protubing out of or into playfield surfaces.  One can 
> have a few large ikosaeders tied together with bridging tubes.
> 
> Imagine such a playfield where you have various terrains 
> laid out... wow!  Imagine the nightmare

More simple : juste plug the north of the map with the south, 
and you will have a cool toric univers. For multi player mode, 
it would warant more balnaced initial position, since with the 
present ice border, all position are not equivalent. 

a+
  manu

PS : 
septagons = heptagon ?
ikosaeders = ikosaeder ?