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Re: Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

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post #46

Wow this really feels like roller coaster tycoon!!! (I can see lots of people refer to this to their favorite sim game though) Great work!

Reminded me quite a bit of Populous[1] as well. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous_(video_game)

Came to say this!

Re: Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

#83
post #57

Wow this really feels like roller coaster tycoon!!! (I can see lots of people refer to this to their favorite sim game though) Great work!

I really miss these building games that used an isometric grid. RC Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, Sim City, TTD, … Yes, it's less realistic, but it is so pleasant to work with. Everything you build aligns perfectly and if you want, you can neatly fill the entire map. In comparison, (even with many mods) my Cities Skylines or Planet Coaster creations never look quite right. Building the roads and paths is always awkward and frus…

As someone who wrote one of those 2D-ish isometric games in the 90s, it was hell. All the problems with trying to render the tiles properly and figure out what tile the user was clicking on when some tiles are semi-transparent etc. The artists need medals though for creating amazing levels with tiny palettes of pieces to work from.

We made it especially hard on ourselves by having 3D characters interact with the 2D tiles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOYps_3eM0

I absolutely adore the look of isometric, though.

Re: Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

#85

This thing is killing my CPU, what's the actual bottleneck here for CSS? Is it the number of elements visible and rendered at once? Is it the calculation engine backing CSS is super slow? Or just that most of the work is being done on the CPU it seems (on my machine, rotating around the map, my integrated GPU goes to 20% but CPU stays around 40-50%).

it's effectively a cpu 'renderer' with gpu painter

Re: Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

#87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. Can confirm this does not work with JS disabled. I'm disappointed by the misleading title.

is it a Generator for CSS-Only Terrain? or a CSS-Only Generator which creates Terrain? We need PEMDAS for English.

Loglan anyone?

Re: Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator

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post #64
post #26

Can someone please reimplement something like Warcraft 2 on a mobile web device? It would be a hit, I’m telling you. Even from 1995. Some people are still playing it 30 years later, obsessively. And myth ii by Bungie is a classic too

Stratagus has an android port at least ...

Oh yes I remembered, wargus exists!

Also Microsoft claims this after buying Blizzard:

Through great teams and great technology, Microsoft and Activision Blizzard will empower players to enjoy the most-immersive franchises, like “Halo” and “Warcraft,” virtually anywhere they want.

https://news.microsoft.com/source/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-ac...

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