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2D or 3D level map?
🕑 Added 2022-12-12 16:15:50 +0000 UTCHey.
While I'm working on fixing performance and control bugs, I'll be integrating the actual gameplay part into the game along the way, in particular the dialogue system, quests, trading, and so on. One of these elements is the level map, since in the town of Mos Phalla (and later around it) there are many points of interest, and it will not be so easy to find some of them without a map (for example, not everyone immediately found the cantina in docking bay 34) .
So the question is: which card would be more convenient in your opinion? It could be a simple 2D scheme like in the first Battlefront.
Or it could be an interactive 3D level projection like in Fallen Order.
The question is rather not in visual beauty, but in ease of use. As for me, the map from the Fallen Order was rather inconvenient in places and confused the player, at the same time, the map from the Battlefront was not very informative. But this is only my opinion, and yours I'm waiting in the poll results and comments.
Comments
Star Wars HQ Adult Games
Actually no, a 3D map is technically not much more complicated than a 2D one. And there will be multi-leveling here, especially when, for example, Coruscant appears in the game (and it will appear).
JJS
Would I be wrong in thinking a 3D map would be more difficult to implement (especially at the beginning of development) than a 2D map? I am no coder but it would seem that a 3D map is more of a cosmetic "Cool!" factor than really necessary one. In Fallen Order a 3D map made sense because a path traversed multiple levels (i.e. a slide). I think the 2D map similar to SWTOR works great. it gives you a general location but you still have to hunt for item/NPC/etc.
Star Wars HQ Adult Games
The map can be layered, with the activation of exactly the level at which you are. And maps that show the exact location of things, and even more so caches, are, excuse me, uninteresting :)
Austin
3D all the way; makes finding things in multistory areas much easier
