[General Algorithme] 3D engines
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[General Algorithme] 3D engines
I've been wondering, how do you go about creating a 3D engine, I have absolutely NO interest in creating a gemini style 3D engine but more of a "real" 3D'r where there's actually up and down aiming (did I mention it's a guning game?)
laugh at me if you wish, but, what I'm thinking of is a two player game like Halo I'm not sure if it's possible to do anything so complex over a cable... but, if it is, please tell, if not, I'd like to try making perhaps a few levels that are large so you'ld have to download them one at a time. I'd prefer this in GREYscale (just makes everything better) the players would NOT be 3D though, they would be 8 sided (so, from every side they look different) and would have three different sprites working, EX, the gun and head would move up and down togheter, the torso would not be flexable so it would be simpler to code, the legs can squat, run, and walk in which the body bobs when ducking or jumping.
of course this would be completely ASM, I'd probably have to code the whole blasted engine from the 0's and 1's up but, do you think it's possible? even in nongreyscale?
PS the "moving bodys" would only be the enemy, of course to it's a first person shooter. my aim is to make it a 2 player VS game as AI's probably aren't easy to code yet be smart... so...
laugh at me if you wish, but, what I'm thinking of is a two player game like Halo I'm not sure if it's possible to do anything so complex over a cable... but, if it is, please tell, if not, I'd like to try making perhaps a few levels that are large so you'ld have to download them one at a time. I'd prefer this in GREYscale (just makes everything better) the players would NOT be 3D though, they would be 8 sided (so, from every side they look different) and would have three different sprites working, EX, the gun and head would move up and down togheter, the torso would not be flexable so it would be simpler to code, the legs can squat, run, and walk in which the body bobs when ducking or jumping.
of course this would be completely ASM, I'd probably have to code the whole blasted engine from the 0's and 1's up but, do you think it's possible? even in nongreyscale?
PS the "moving bodys" would only be the enemy, of course to it's a first person shooter. my aim is to make it a 2 player VS game as AI's probably aren't easy to code yet be smart... so...
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Well although linking will be a hurdle i dont think its your biggest worry atm. It would be difficult to get a polygonal based engine with textures running a complex scene at a decent speed on a 6MHz calc. You *might* have a chance on an SE running at 15MHz. Real 3D engines for calc games would not be able to handle a complex indoor environment ... i think they would be more suited to flight sims and the like.
Im sure if you google for some info on 3D engine development you will find a fair bit. I recommend gathering as many resources as you can, you should be prepared to do a lot of reading for this project.
Even if things dont work out in the end, it cant hurt to try .
Im sure if you google for some info on 3D engine development you will find a fair bit. I recommend gathering as many resources as you can, you should be prepared to do a lot of reading for this project.
Even if things dont work out in the end, it cant hurt to try .
You'll only need to send over a few coordinates plus a view direction, that's not going to be a problem, unless you really can't spare the clocks that the sending takes when you're rendering the view of course...
Anyway, like tr1p said, linking will not be your biggest problem.
Anyway, like tr1p said, linking will not be your biggest problem.
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I would suggest looking into fake 3D, like what Hexen and the Build engine did (sheared perspective when changing viewing pitch). FPSs are hard to do properly (culling, filling the screen with ordered polygons, clipping to the view frustum, numeric accuracy, raytracing for collision detection etc), faking things will be faster, more stable and most probably look better.
Asking if a project like this is possible sounds a little like skepticism No matter how crazy a game idea might be, one should take the chance since nobody else has. That's why I haven't yet said anything about grayscale, but you should know that it will require filled surfaces and filling pixels is the most horrifying thing you can do on a calc.
Asking if a project like this is possible sounds a little like skepticism No matter how crazy a game idea might be, one should take the chance since nobody else has. That's why I haven't yet said anything about grayscale, but you should know that it will require filled surfaces and filling pixels is the most horrifying thing you can do on a calc.
My only suggestion is to look over some of the older 3D games. Andreas Ess pulled some pretty sick frame rates in Daedalus (grayscaled, no less). If you can coax him out of retirement, it might shead some rays (er...light) on the situation.
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Heh heh. That's sort of how I looked when I first saw it. I got a link here, but unfortunantly, he only published a small slice of his code. Anywho, if he can do that on 85 with only 6MHz, an 83+ version would dy-no-miiite.
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