Baltie lives in his own world, in which he can move and conjure up various objects.
Baltie's world is infinitely large in all directions, which means also up and down.
Baltie's world is divided into imaginary cubes
Baltie's world is divided into imaginary cubes sized 2×2×2 meters. Baltie stands always inside one of these cubes. He can never be in between two of them.
On demand (means after executing the right command) he can move into the cube in front of him, behind him, above him or below him. He can never dwell on the border of these cubes. Each of the movements is from the inside of one cube into the inside of another one.
If Baltie conjures objects, he does it in the cube in front of him.
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Initial Baltie's position
At the beginning of program Baltie stays in the cube, whose left lower corner (left behind Baltie's back) is situated exactly in the middle of Baltie's world, so Baltie dwells at position [X-1, Y-0, Z-1] and he is turned in the direction of the Z-axis. Each cube has its own local paratactic system, which begins in left lower corner of the cube. The orientation of this paratactic system corresponds to the paratactic system of Baltie's world.
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Dimensions in Baltie's world
The size of an imaginary cube is 2x2x2 meters. As in a real world, also here Baltie is getting smaller when moving away. Equally, the apparent size of other cubes is getting smaller.
You should remember that the cube size is roughly 1.5 times larger than Baltie's tallness, which may help you guess the size of the imaginary cube at Baltie's position.
Baltie is roughly 1.3 meter tall (including his wizardly hat).
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Baltie's world background
If you want to make Baltie's world looking more realistic, you can turn on displaying the skybox. However this skybox is placed in infinity in all directions from Baltie. That means that if Baltie goes one kilometer ahead, the skybox will be still equally infinitely far from him. In other words, the scenery showed in the skybox will stay at the same place, but Baltie will be getting smaller when he goes out from you. So Baltie can neither step in nor conjure in the skybox. He is doing everything in the open space. If you want Baltie to walk on the solid land, you have to conjure it up first.
For further details about turning the displaying skybox view on and off see the page.
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View of Baltie's world
Baltie's world is taken by imaginary camera. You can zoom seen objects in and out, or you can start to look in a completely other direction, by proper setting its parameters. For further details about setting the camera parameters see the Manipulating with the camera page.
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