sung@ceco.ceco.com (Sung Han) (05/17/91)
Howdy everyone,
First off, I know that this question probably belongs in a group like
rec.games.programmer, but since we don't get that group here at our site,
please, no flames!
Now for my question - I know that everyone and his cousin has written a
Mah-jongg/Taipei type of tile-removal game at one time, and I'm trying to
do the same (a rite of passage, if you will). However, I'm stuck on the
problem of figuring out how to redraw tiles whenever a tile is deleted. The
problem is that since the tiles are stacked several levels high, and seen from
an angle, they can overlap each other in weird ways - and I'm hard pressed to
figure out which tiles to redraw and in what manner. At first I had thought
that this would be a pretty simple problem, but it's turning out to be more
difficult than I had imagined.
So, if you understand my problem, could you please tell me whether this is
really an easy thing to do, and I'm just missing something? Or is it truly a
complicated procedure, not to be tried by a mere amateur? Any hints, ideas,
algorithms, or (especially) source code would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, and I'm using SunView right now, not that it should matter much - but
I could also use X or MS-Windows.
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