: Like System Shock (AFAIK)? I guess that'd be easier to explain than 'the
: reality level is a mite thin here', though the preview still gives the
: impression that you were meant to walk in. Mind-avatars?
: That DOES sound like a lot of work (and extremely fiddly). While reading
: this, I imagined a third set-up where you put two almost-identical pieces
: of geometry on separate areas of the same map and just have certain
: switches/terminals in one bit shift things around in the other, but simply
: bringing up the map would completely wreck the illusion... (And would
: probably still be fiddly)
It would still be fiddly to attempt to overlap both areas, since 5D space only works because the areas don't share the same vertices. Maybe some wacky programming could add an extra set of properties to polygons to add a "second space" in them with secondary textures and objects to boot, and you'd have to specify which space each object is in... clunky, but no copypasta required.
