To: pv AT cs DOT montana DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: 3d Engine - hgtf_1-0.zip [01/01]
Message-ID: <19970329.220337.7055.2.fwec@juno.com>
References: <332B95CF DOT 276F AT postoffice DOT worldnet DOT att DOT net> 
From: fwec AT juno DOT com (Mark T Logan)
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 22:04:56 EST

On Fri, 28 Mar 1997 14:03:31 GMT pv AT cs DOT montana DOT edu (Paul Peavyhouse)
writes:
>In article <333b1fcd DOT 3971378 AT news DOT cis DOT yale DOT edu>, quacci AT vera DOT com (jon) 
>wrote:
>>I thank the guy who wrote Jlib for porting this. It is a very
>>interesting engine. Nevertheless, I am having a hard time
>>understanding it- I don't understand the basics of this sort of
>>rendering, "heightfield rendering." For example, what does the
>>sine/cosine table do, and how is it implemented in the drawing? I 
>have
>>a hard time even figuring out how he is doing the actual line 
>drawing.
>>I mean, I have the code, but I just can't seem to follow it out to 
>the
>>big picture of what makes this engine tick. But it is a remarkable
>>engine, for something so small. Any clues, anyone?
>>
>>Please post in this thread.
>
>        Yes, it is a really impressive engine for it's size.  To be 
>honest I 
>haven't really delved too far into that code, although it does the 
>best 
>job of visualizing what I would like to accomplish.  I'm looking for a 
>way to 
>combine the both this engine (voxel/heightfield) and BSP-trees into a 
>single 
>engine.  It would be really neat if you could walk up to that Aztec 
>ruin and 
>then walk into a quake type world.  Battle around a little bit and 
>then lure 
>the battle to the outside.  Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Have you heard of the raydeal engine?  It's got voxel graphics
for the outdoors, as well as BSP based buildings.  It was written
by one Matt Howard.  I don't know where you can get it, because
he went off to college this year and the website may not exist anymore.

I would recommend doing a websearch for "Raydeal" and maybe "Matt
Howard".


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