>>Rotating the other player is actually trivial.
>I'm not talking about the coding. It's not trivial because 8 bits of
>graphics are just insufficient for resolving many degrees of
>rotation. Your shapes are going to look like garbage unless you stick to
>very primitive shapes (like the triangles in Asteroids).
Yeah, very true. I'll probably stick with Combat-like shapes
which resolve to 22.5 degrees or 1/16 circle. The overall
rotation of the landscape and constant motion should help
fill in the gaps. Right now the first person orientation is only
resolved to 1.4 degrees or 1/256 circle and it obviously
isn't quite good enough, which is why the "linear" motion
as you move forward is so jumpy. I think that if this is
fixed the eye will forgive a lot of other sins and approximations.
--Roger Williams
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