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Farragar
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That still seems counter-intuitive, I'd have thought the easiest way would be to have direction given almost as a bearing - colockwise from upwards or 'North', rather than anti-clockwise from Right, or 'East'...
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rellikpd
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| Farragar wrote: | | ...counter-intuitive.... |
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its NOT counter-intuitive, because now you are thinking about directions on a globe or map, and yeah we call these things MAPS but they are made on computers, and computers are ran on math, made by guys who were math nerds. so its only follows that they would follow math rules.
and although we call them maps. we are really building geometric shapes (now (with steam) quite complex shapes, but still geometric shapes) and so it only goes that we would use math coordinates and math rules, PLUS: north/south/east/west gets really confusing on the Z axis, how can you have 2 different norths? you can't, but you can have two 90 degree coordinates based in different axis
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Farragar
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I was only using 'North' and 'East' to emphasise the point that the system would be like a Bearing, Not actual N/E/S/W references.
Also, the only time I've ever had to measure angles in this way is when dealing with Argand diagrams and Imaginary numbers, and even then, these are taken in Radians; not degrees. (obviously radians are pretty much useless for Hammer - but you get the point.) Still, I would have thought most mappers would deal more naturally with a clockwise system. It's only a software edit - after all.
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rellikpd
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you never took geometry? 0 is right, 90 is "up", 180 is left. 270 is "down" if you measure angles thats the way it goes. (by default)
its even on the protractor, and compass.
its math baby.
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