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Bug Reporting => PlayMaker Bug Reporting => Topic started by: TonkRogerio on December 08, 2013, 08:40:14 AM
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How would I go about creating a sphere of influence much like the ones in endless space. They need to be able to push each other as well like if city A becomes more influential than city B and they are touching borders, then city A's borders will start pushing city B's borders.
Like this- http://techgage.com/reviews/gaming/endless_space/endless_space_16.jpg
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Hi,
It would require a quite involcing algorythm if you want to do that mathematically.
If you want to use physics, each node, would have a spring joint set to be very slow and loose, and you would let the colliders do the job. Each node would have a sphere collider. I would play around changing the size of the sphere colliders so that creating a new node has a collider of size 0 and then gradually increase the size so that the physics doesn't "explode".
I would also test this using the new 2d physics, I would tend to hope it would be more performant then using the full 3d physics.
If you find an open source of such distribution algorythm, I will be quite happy to add this to my list of things to port, it's been something I tried to create properly for years...
Bye,
Jean