Any of you gues ever played the ol' 2D SNES games? Well, in games like Donkey Kong, which is kind of a platform game, the have only one "line" to walk. There's a background, but they also have a foreground. What if we added this to soldat? It shouldn't be much, just a couple of plants hanging down, or maybe some barbed wire. The mapper could do this himself according to the map theme.
Also i was thinking on maybe making the back, mid and forground move unaccordingly. By that i mean, the foreground should move faster than the others, and the background should be the slower one. This way it would really feel like you moved through the terrain.
Ofcourse it would help if a picture could be inserted in the background. A distant battleground would be cool for maps such as INF_invasion. This would bring out an entire new aspect to mapping.
what do you think?
Djinn