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QUBE - designing picking inside a cube?

A topic by tintwotin created 8 days ago Views: 90 Replies: 6
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Doing a connect-4 game in 3D by just using html5 and threejs, however selection of positions inside the cube is not directly possible. The picker will always select the outside positions, so I designed rows with toggle positions. How does this work? Can it be improved? https://tintwotin.itch.io/think-hard-connect-four-in-3d

Some of my ideas is to make the row change direction depending on the picked box (might be difficult). And also, add a Next Turn button as an alternative to finish the turn with the Enter-key.

Another topic is how good the computer is to read user strategies. It seems like you can always trick it by doing Connetct-4 in two crossing directions. How to improve the computers abilities to play the game?

Update: https://tintwotin.itch.io/think-hard-connect-four-in-3d/devlog/991726/qube-updat...

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Hey tintwotin,

don't know how to rotate and find it hard it bit hard to see, where exaclty the blocks are placed now... don't know maybe there is a better to illustrate the block position... maybe "full blocks" just a bit transparent. 

Thanks for the reply. You just drag outside the cube, and it'll rotate in the direction you drag.  Are you on a computer or a touch device?

Often you want to look in one direction to select a row, and then rotate to the side to toggle to the right position inside the row.

Hey tinwotin,

yeah now I was able to rotate the cube... maybe i was zoomed in to much the first time... so I didn't had any background to grap ... for me I think it would be better if the cube is always centered at the bottom and can't get lost in space - furthermore ... if rotation would be done with up and arrow keys and the toggle for convience with the right mouse button and placement with space... just the way i feel about it,

Where is the cube placed when you start the game? Can you make a screenshot? And tell me what is your resolution and operating system?

Arrow keys for rotation properly could be included, but it wouldn't work as freely as rotating with the mouse or with fingers on a touch device. 

Right mouse is typically cancel, and should work like this currently. 

How do you find the difficulty levels(too hard?) and the tournament mode?