{"id":3401,"date":"2014-08-27T20:03:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T10:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2014-08-27T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T10:05:46","slug":"orthographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2014\/08\/27\/orthographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-27-at-2.54.54-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3402\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-27-at-2.54.54-pm-300x238.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-08-27 at 2.54.54 pm\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-27-at-2.54.54-pm-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-27-at-2.54.54-pm.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with using an orthographic view for MMORPG Tycoon 2&#8217;s editing interface.<\/p>\n<p>Orthographic views were actually extremely common in Tycoon games, up until the late 90s.  I&#8217;m not yet completely convinced that it&#8217;s the right choice for MMORPG Tycoon, but I&#8217;m considering it.  To me, it feels a little retro.<\/p>\n<p>(Note that in this shot, the white blobs in the middle of the terrain are actually the clouds that you see when you&#8217;re at ground level.  The sky dome would also be visible from here, if the terrain wasn&#8217;t drawing over it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with using an orthographic view for MMORPG Tycoon 2&#8217;s editing interface. Orthographic views were actually extremely common in Tycoon games, up until the late 90s. I&#8217;m not yet completely convinced that it&#8217;s the right choice for MMORPG Tycoon, but I&#8217;m considering it. To me, it feels a little retro. (Note that in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-27-at-2.54.54-pm.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-SR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}