Skewed Grid

[Shrinker]

Hello!
I am just in the preparation time for my diploma thesis, after I moved to my new home here a month ago. A direction is only just emerging, but there is no clear path yet that I can work on all day. So I am distracting myself a bit with random programming and occasionally cleaning up here and there. Going back and forth between looking at my plans and doing random stuff seems to help my mind get up to speed. Or maybe I am just slacking.

So anyway, I was thinking: Wouldn't it be awesome if the grid that everything's snapped to could be skewed? With the right parameters, that would easily yield reference parameters that have proper coordinates too :D

[city14]

An orthogonal grid?

I think there are programs that do that. Do you mean an editor with an orthogonal grid?

[Shrinker]

Orthogonal is default, skewed is nondefault. And of course I am talking about an editor idea! :D

[city14]

Well, how is the skewed better?

Does it yield a better mapping practice?

How does one draw out something from a top-down view on this skewed grid? Wouldn't it seem harder to do?

Why is the normal grid "bad" as well?

[Phott]

Yeah I was just wondering, why having a skewed grid? What's the purpose?

[omnicoder]

I am also wondering what the practical applications of this would be.

[Shrinker]

For making skewed architecture...

[city14]

Oh, so it's not like just rotating the grid for the editor.

It's just making a new grid that is at an angle. So that you have a base to build from when constructing angular geometry.

Sounds interesting. But I really don't know why it's practical. The vertex tool in hammer can do the exact same thing...

[Shrinker]

Go one level deeper: This controls the reference points the vertices are snapped to :P

[Rasky_26]

I greatly vote yes, would make it much easier and quicker to make a building at a 15 degree angle, and then one at a 30 degree angle next to it. This greatly would improve on the current "for every x points up, be y points over" rule.

[Shrinker]

Lol... I hadn't even thought of that application yet XD

[city14]

START THINKING OF APPLICATIONS!

[Shrinker]

Another thing: I also wanted a circular version of the grid... very hard to do with line drawing primitives because of all the curves and blah... using shaders for grids now >:D

[Smurftyours]

A skewed grid could help greatly with making buildings at an angle and other things that are much harder to do on a standard grid.

[Shrinker]

After fiddling with this for many hours, to get the look of the lines right, in the distance just as very close, shaders now enable me to use a grid that is slightly bigger than before. And the good news is: If you don't like the look, you can change it on your own! :D