Off the Grid

[Infa(mous)]

I was sorta wondering if it's possible to make a map with no walls?
May seem stupid, but off the grid play sounds kinda cool...

[Fonkay]

What would happen off the grid?

[Infa(mous)]

Uhhh... No rimwhoring? I dunno...

[Lucifer]

Hey, what you guys do off the grid is your own personal business.

[sinewav]

Read about the logical box here:
http://wiki.armagetronad.net/index.php? ... Hand#Field

In Adventures of TRON "Advanced Racing" I tried to give the illusion of an infinite grid by adding this to all the maps:

Code: Select all

<Wall height="0.01">
   <Point x="-10000" y="-10000" />
   <Point x="-10000" y="-10000.01" />
</Wall>
<Wall height="0.01">
   <Point x="-10000" y="10000" />
   <Point x="-10000" y="10000.01" />
</Wall>
<Wall height="0.01">
   <Point x="10000" y="10000" />
   <Point x="10000" y="10000.01" />
</Wall>
<Wall height="0.01">
   <Point x="10000" y="-10000" />
   <Point x="10000" y="-10000.01" />
</Wall>

You can drive to the end, but it takes a few minutes.

[Infa(mous)]

Cool. Thanks Sinewav

[ed]

With sty+ct it would be theoretically possible to have no walls, instead 4 enormous "target" zones recreating the the four walls in their place.
As a player enters the target zone a simple script will run that will respawn that player at the opposite side of the grid.
Not infinity, but it would be an end to rim hugging
edit: the player's old walls would be destroyed as he is respawned. I guess there goes that plan

[Infa(mous)]

:\ Well, ed, that WAS a good plan...

[QUARG]

Not hard to test really, all you have to do is make the spawn points outside of the grid/walls. I did this once with a strange rubbery feel as you touch an invisible field a few cycle lengths from the walls. Its almost like you've been caught in a net.