I like it! Way too brain-destroying and complex for me to attempt to use right now
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Like this?
The rooms themselves are euclidean, but the environment as a whole isn’t (note the number of turns).
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This is wild, amazing job, I didn’t even think about something like this.
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That’s super cool stuff! I wonder what else there is, this has much potential for fun puzzle and exploration games.
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Wow, this is nice! Good job on this!
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too complicated for me to give any criticism, very cool!
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Wow this is not bad at all. Though it would be fun if you can make non-euclidean games? Can we? Say like super liminal? I think that would be super cool seeing a game like Super Liminal (I think its called) on Roblox. Also may I ask how you were able to achieve this?
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yeah whats even going on? i didnt think you could change the roblox rendering pipeline like that…???
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The “rendering” part is just drawing triangles using EditableMesh instances. The difficult/cool part is the math behind it!
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Each 4d mesh is stored as a collection (table) of points (Vector4), edges, and tetrahedrons. The tetrahedrons define the “hyper-surface” of the meshes the same way triangles define the surface of a 3-dimensional mesh.
CFrame4’s work the same way normal cframes do (except in 4-dimensions) and are 5x5 matrices with a 4x4 rotational component and a 4x1 positional component. Vector4’s are also just vectors but with 4 coordinates (x, y, z, w).
Drawing the cross-section is the same as drawing the cross-section of every tetrahedron, and that is done by calculating intersection points (with our 3d world) and then drawing either nothing, triangles, or quadrilaterals from the resulting “slice”.
I’ve attached a full(er) explanation here
4D renderer.pdf (33.4 KB)
and here
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in 4d is it a Quinernion rather than a Quaternion??? but yeah v cool.
Tho i would say im not sure how fun 4d games are, defintly could fall into the confusing no fun category…if your thinking games you probs want to keep it very simple. maybe a point and click type game in a small environment so people dont get lost or maybe a rail shooter, so the player doesnt have to manually move through the dimensions??
Either way awesome work… be cool to see what it turns into
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I use matrices rather than quaternions (iirc you need two quaternions to encode 4d orientation). Quaternions themselves are 4-dimensional, but are better for representing 3-dimensional rotations. They only have equivalents in dimensions which are powers of 2 (1, 2, 4, 8, etc) so quinernions don’t exist. If you are interested, you can look into hypercomplex numbers and multivectors which are similar concepts and do extend to arbitrary dimensions. I did consider using those (hypercomplex/multivectors) because of their intuitive nature when it comes to angular velocity but decided against it.
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lol i did say that as a joke, but i learned alot thanks
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This is so cool!! Are you planning to open source the module 
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I am sure not as it would not be just for us to just take their creation for free while they worked so hard on making a 4d engine. 4d calculations are certainly not easy.
Your game is unplayable in my country, likely due to lootboxes and stuff.
You gotta disable those in certain regions if you want people to be able to play the game.
Hey! We changed our game, so you can play in all regions.
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Where do i get the module for this? It looks super cool.