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Warboy1982 at 08:01, 9 August 2015

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	::Thanks for the info. For a while, I was investigating the navigation code to eventually fix the Great Circle issue in the original game. I got a working formula but the output for the degrees of heading were never as expected. I looked at what formula OpenXCOM used but it seemed fundamentally the same, so I wondered if you all were using your own map data. -[[User:Morgan525\|Tycho]] ([[User talk:Morgan525\|talk]]) 08:28, 8 August 2015 (EDT)		::Thanks for the info. For a while, I was investigating the navigation code to eventually fix the Great Circle issue in the original game. I got a working formula but the output for the degrees of heading were never as expected. I looked at what formula OpenXCOM used but it seemed fundamentally the same, so I wondered if you all were using your own map data. -[[User:Morgan525\|Tycho]] ([[User talk:Morgan525\|talk]]) 08:28, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

	:::we actually wrote some code to convert all the original data into our format, and we use the world.dat file for the polygons. the only thing we really took liberties with were the region zones. we closed the hole near australia in UFO and 99% of the holes in TFTD (i'm still working on those). you can use debug mode to project all the zones/countries/mission zones on the geoscape in real-time if you wanna make comparisons, or one of our forum members, Falko, made a python script ~~to parse it all and give you a cartesian perspective.~~ [http://falkooxc2.pythonanywhere.com/worldeditor]--[[User:Warboy1982\|Warboy1982]] ([[User talk:Warboy1982\|talk]]) 03:59, 9 August 2015 (EDT)		:::we actually wrote some code to convert all the original data into our format, and we use the world.dat file for the polygons. the only thing we really took liberties with were the region zones. we closed the hole near australia in UFO and 99% of the holes in TFTD (i'm still working on those). you can use debug mode to project all the zones/countries/mission zones on the geoscape in real-time if you wanna make comparisons, or one of our forum members, Falko, made a python script [http://falkooxc2.pythonanywhere.com/worldeditor] to parse it all and give you a cartesian perspective.--[[User:Warboy1982\|Warboy1982]] ([[User talk:Warboy1982\|talk]]) 03:59, 9 August 2015 (EDT)

Warboy1982 at 07:59, 9 August 2015

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	I know that the forum profile link works fine for you, but in order to avoid more headscratching like "wtf? this is my profile!" when clicking it, you may want to use this one: http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=969

	Warboy,		Warboy,
	Does OpenXcom use the same coordinate system for the globe as the original game or did you all remap it in order to make navigation plotting easier? -[[User:Morgan525\|Tycho]] ([[User talk:Morgan525\|talk]]) 23:20, 6 August 2015 (EDT)		Does OpenXcom use the same coordinate system for the globe as the original game or did you all remap it in order to make navigation plotting easier? -[[User:Morgan525\|Tycho]] ([[User talk:Morgan525\|talk]]) 23:20, 6 August 2015 (EDT)

	we converted them in most cases from xcom units into degrees, the in-game coordinate values are actually the same as the ones used on google maps, which makes it pretty easy to locate cities/etc. and add them in to the rulesets.--[[User:Warboy1982\|Warboy1982]] ([[User talk:Warboy1982\|talk]]) 05:32, 8 August 2015 (EDT)		:we converted them in most cases from xcom units into degrees, the in-game coordinate values are actually the same as the ones used on google maps, which makes it pretty easy to locate cities/etc. and add them in to the rulesets.--[[User:Warboy1982\|Warboy1982]] ([[User talk:Warboy1982\|talk]]) 05:32, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

			::Thanks for the info. For a while, I was investigating the navigation code to eventually fix the Great Circle issue in the original game. I got a working formula but the output for the degrees of heading were never as expected. I looked at what formula OpenXCOM used but it seemed fundamentally the same, so I wondered if you all were using your own map data. -[[User:Morgan525\|Tycho]] ([[User talk:Morgan525\|talk]]) 08:28, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

	:~~Thanks~~ for the ~~info~~. ~~For a while, I was investigating~~ the ~~navigation code to eventually fix~~ the ~~Great Circle issue~~ in the ~~original game~~. ~~I got a working formula but~~ the ~~output for~~ the ~~degrees~~ of ~~heading were never as expected. I looked at what formula OpenXCOM used but~~ it ~~seemed fundamentally the same, so I wondered if~~ you ~~all were using your own map data~~. -[[User:~~Morgan525~~\|~~Tycho~~]] ([[User talk:~~Morgan525~~\|talk]]) 08:28, 8 August 2015 (EDT)		:::we actually wrote some code to convert all the original data into our format, and we use the world.dat file for the polygons. the only thing we really took liberties with were the region zones. we closed the hole near australia in UFO and 99% of the holes in TFTD (i'm still working on those). you can use debug mode to project all the zones/countries/mission zones on the geoscape in real-time if you wanna make comparisons, or one of our forum members, Falko, made a python script to parse it all and give you a cartesian perspective. [http://falkooxc2.pythonanywhere.com/worldeditor]--[[User:Warboy1982\|Warboy1982]] ([[User talk:Warboy1982\|talk]]) 03:59, 9 August 2015 (EDT)

Morgan525 at 12:28, 8 August 2015

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	Warboy,		Warboy,

	Does OpenXcom use the same coordinate system for the globe as the original game or did you all remap it in order to make navigation plotting easier? -[[User:Morgan525\|Tycho]] ([[User talk:Morgan525\|talk]]) 23:20, 6 August 2015 (EDT)		Does OpenXcom use the same coordinate system for the globe as the original game or did you all remap it in order to make navigation plotting easier? -[[User:Morgan525\|Tycho]] ([[User talk:Morgan525\|talk]]) 23:20, 6 August 2015 (EDT)

			we converted them in most cases from xcom units into degrees, the in-game coordinate values are actually the same as the ones used on google maps, which makes it pretty easy to locate cities/etc. and add them in to the rulesets.--[[User:Warboy1982\|Warboy1982]] ([[User talk:Warboy1982\|talk]]) 05:32, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

	~~we converted them in most cases from xcom units into degrees~~, the in-game ~~coordinate values are actually~~ the ~~same~~ as ~~the ones~~ used ~~on google maps, which makes~~ it ~~pretty easy to locate cities/etc. and add them in to~~ the ~~rulesets~~.--[[User:~~Warboy1982~~\|~~Warboy1982~~]] ([[User talk:~~Warboy1982~~\|talk]]) 05:32, 8 August 2015 (EDT)		:Thanks for the info. For a while, I was investigating the navigation code to eventually fix the Great Circle issue in the original game. I got a working formula but the output for the degrees of heading were never as expected. I looked at what formula OpenXCOM used but it seemed fundamentally the same, so I wondered if you all were using your own map data. -[[User:Morgan525\|Tycho]] ([[User talk:Morgan525\|talk]]) 08:28, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

Warboy1982 at 09:32, 8 August 2015

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	we converted them in most cases from xcom units into ~~either~~ degrees, the in-game coordinate values are actually the same as the ones used on google maps, which makes it pretty easy to locate cities/etc. and add them in to the rulesets.--[[User:Warboy1982\|Warboy1982]] ([[User talk:Warboy1982\|talk]]) 05:32, 8 August 2015 (EDT)		we converted them in most cases from xcom units into degrees, the in-game coordinate values are actually the same as the ones used on google maps, which makes it pretty easy to locate cities/etc. and add them in to the rulesets.--[[User:Warboy1982\|Warboy1982]] ([[User talk:Warboy1982\|talk]]) 05:32, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

Warboy1982 at 09:32, 8 August 2015

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	we converted them in most cases from xcom units into either degrees ~~or radians~~, ~~i can't remember which off the top of my head, but~~ the in-game coordinate values are actually the same as the ones used on google maps.		we converted them in most cases from xcom units into either degrees, the in-game coordinate values are actually the same as the ones used on google maps, which makes it pretty easy to locate cities/etc. and add them in to the rulesets.--[[User:Warboy1982\|Warboy1982]] ([[User talk:Warboy1982\|talk]]) 05:32, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

Warboy1982 at 07:09, 7 August 2015

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	Does OpenXcom use the same coordinate system for the globe as the original game or did you all remap it in order to make navigation plotting easier? -[[User:Morgan525\|Tycho]] ([[User talk:Morgan525\|talk]]) 23:20, 6 August 2015 (EDT)		Does OpenXcom use the same coordinate system for the globe as the original game or did you all remap it in order to make navigation plotting easier? -[[User:Morgan525\|Tycho]] ([[User talk:Morgan525\|talk]]) 23:20, 6 August 2015 (EDT)


			we converted them in most cases from xcom units into either degrees or radians, i can't remember which off the top of my head, but the in-game coordinate values are actually the same as the ones used on google maps.

Morgan525 at 03:20, 7 August 2015

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	I know that the forum profile link works fine for you, but in order to avoid more headscratching like "wtf? this is my profile!" when clicking it, you may want to use this one: http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=969		I know that the forum profile link works fine for you, but in order to avoid more headscratching like "wtf? this is my profile!" when clicking it, you may want to use this one: http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=969

			Warboy,

			Does OpenXcom use the same coordinate system for the globe as the original game or did you all remap it in order to make navigation plotting easier? -[[User:Morgan525\|Tycho]] ([[User talk:Morgan525\|talk]]) 23:20, 6 August 2015 (EDT)

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I know that the forum profile link works fine for you, but in order to avoid more headscratching like "wtf? this is my profile!" when clicking it, you may want to use this one: http://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=969