How do I make a Sphere (Globe)?

Hi everyone,

I want to make a pseudo Sphere (Globe) that i can rotate and select a country on it. How can i accomplish this with C3?

newt

Thanks for replying, Thats a good idea for 3d type menu but the game needs it to be a globe (Sphere).

dop2000

Thanks for the idea and example file, this might work just fine, i will add different frames for globe... any idea for detecting which country player selected though?

If you don't have too many countries you can paint them in different colors and read pixel color under mouse cursor (using Drawing Canvas). Or maybe define lots of image points and find the nearest image point to mouse click, but this is a huge job as you'll need to do this for every animation frame..

If you apply a distortion effect like Crystal ball, you will need to account for it when determining which tile was clicked. There's probably a formula, but I don't know it.

Also, I don't think it's possible to change image offset in runtime, this property is only available in editor. I guess it's not really needed, you can use two copies of the tilemap, or put two maps on one tilemap, and move the entire tilemap. But, you'll still need to prepare the array of all tiles and their corresponding countries. With 198 countries I imagine the tiles need to be quite small and this array will be really big...

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As for my first suggestion - distinguishing 198 countries by color may not be very accurate. You need to put a small Drawing Canvas object in the position where the map was clicked, paste the map onto it, then do "Drawing canvas save snapshot", and after that you'll be able to read RGB values of the pixel.

Yes, I though about TileMap.. Forget about the crystal ball, I found an effect that creates a perfect sphere, with rotation!

construct.net/en/make-games/addons/242/glsl-sphere

I still don't know how to detect which country is clicked, but I'm sure you'll figure it out :)