MaxCoderz

I even wrote one man. Don't post stuff like that, its just as bad as all those "screen savers" on ticalc and calcgames.

Biased negative energy here, just leave it.

In an effort to be a little bit more on-topic: does anybody have any nice game ideas for a generic 3D engine of this kind, besides Space Dementia-clones?

Stunts (AKA 4D Stunt Driver)? That used a very primitive, blocky polygonal engine. The "physics" (loosest possible meaning) might be a tad difficult though.

Naturally, Elite, but I guess that's been covered. And we don't want Mr. Braben on our backs, do we?

DarkerLine wrote:To essentially rephrase the question, will there be masking?

Masking is quite simple to do. There will be a small time penalty, but nothing too drastic.

CompWiz wrote:That demo is amazing. However, I noticed that without the lcd fix program, the display gets messed up after a little while of running this on an 84+SE. With it, it works fine.
Stupid TI display drivers

Hmm... I don't have an 84+SE so I guess I'll have to do some reading about that. When I started this engine there was no such thing as an 84

benryves wrote:Stunts (AKA 4D Stunt Driver)? That used a very primitive, blocky polygonal engine. The "physics" (loosest possible meaning) might be a tad difficult though.

Naturally, Elite, but I guess that's been covered. And we don't want Mr. Braben on our backs, do we?

There is always the option of a game "loosely based" on Elite. Change the ship designs and names, etc.

Another good one would be "Corncob 3D". It's a very old but extremely entertaining flight sim set in an anternate history. I thinks it's available as freeware these days, not sure how it would run on modern machines though.

But as has been stated, I really need to perfect the polygon clipping before this engine will be useful. I am using a home-brewed adaption of Sutherland-Hodgman clipping. But instead of clipping to each plane one at a time (which would be too slow), I am trying to do all six simultaneously. It works fine for wireframe models, but polygons are a bit of a pain.

qarnos wrote:

DarkerLine wrote:

CompWiz wrote:That demo is amazing. However, I noticed that without the lcd fix program, the display gets messed up after a little while of running this on an 84+SE. With it, it works fine.
Stupid TI display drivers

Hmm... I don't have an 84+SE so I guess I'll have to do some reading about that. When I started this engine there was no such thing as an 84

Yeah, you have to be aware of that. Most of the people buying calcs now(at least at my school) get the 84's. I think that Harvest moon by Spencer won't play on anything except the 83+(not even 83SE) at all because of the display drivers. That game used some of the more advanced visual display techniques.

The demo did work on my 84+SE. The LCD fix is neccesary to play(without visual effects) quite a few games.

How about the 1991 PC game F-29 retaliator?
That game really rocked, and I think it should be possible to recreate that for calculators. You only need a horizon, some enemy planes, a few very simple buildings, an overlay of a cockpit and of course really cool grayscale splashscreens

Oh, the game that refused to work in any directory but C:\RETAL!

Exactly! And that you had to run by starting the brilliantly clearly named program "X"

Why not ES4:Oblivion

Actually, that retaliator game looks like something my friend was playing in class yesterday, let me ask him about it.

Timendus wrote:How about the 1991 PC game F-29 retaliator?
That game really rocked, and I think it should be possible to recreate that for calculators. You only need a horizon, some enemy planes, a few very simple buildings, an overlay of a cockpit and of course really cool grayscale splashscreens

Is it just me or is that pilot holding the parachute with his hands?!!!

nice find, his hands/arms must be tough to withstand that kind of force.

back in '91, the pilots were a lot tougher.

qarnos wrote:

Timendus wrote:How about the 1991 PC game F-29 retaliator?
That game really rocked, and I think it should be possible to recreate that for calculators. You only need a horizon, some enemy planes, a few very simple buildings, an overlay of a cockpit and of course really cool grayscale splashscreens

Is it just me or is that pilot holding the parachute with his hands?!!!

That is the manliest thing I have ever seen.

threefingeredguy wrote:That is the manliest thing I have ever seen.

I bet you'd be just as manly if your plane got shot down by enemy fighters, and your only chance of survival was to hold on to your very crappy 1991-styled parachute

How on earth did I change the topic from a 3D engine to manliness?

He has a very manly (bigger than him) and light-weight gun as well.