[gameprogrammer] Re: Calculating Line-Of-Sight

On 11/7/05, Matthias Amberg <mylists@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Stephen
> > This does work well in general, but if two units are close together
> > but round the corner from each other, it can sometimes return true
> > when in fact there is a corner in the way.  I could try increasing the
> > interval, but this obviously increases the time it takes the algorythm
> > to run.  Does anyone know a better method?
> >
> I am not sure wheter this is a good idea, but what about only increasing
> the interval of your algorythm when players are in fact close, since
> they are close at least the distance to be checked is small, so
> increasing the points measured between the two players shouldn't be more
> intensive than checking across a big distance with less calculated points?
I think you will have a hard time making that work - setting the
parameters right etc. and the implementation will be overly
complicated. And when you're done, you are still not sure whether
you've missed something.

> greetings
> matthias
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