cheers evolutional for the suggestions
total annihilation looks good, at least looks like theres lots of fans of the game, theres even a high quality remake 'test spring', which Ive downloaded (though not tried out yet)
someone else suggested dune2, which also seems to have a strong fanbase.
to me thats the number one indication of a strong/good game. If ppl are willing to invest a lot of time, remaking, modding etc it then the obviously thought the original a great game.
LachlanL - the overlays are drawn over the terrain (ie QUAD_STRIP using return_terrain_height(x,z) to get the height) u can see the red clipping through the terrain just to the right of the sword cursor.
though this is only a debugging mode so not important, I only done to visualize why the ppl werent behaving as they should.