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Article #378Re: Polygon Characters - what about speed?
From: ava... Richard Weber
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:24
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:24
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George Laufert (lau...@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : Well I guess that since Descent also uses polygons it will run : at about the same speed as Descent (Probably faster since it is id :) ). I've only played descent on a 386-40, but it wasn't bad at all. I'm trying to imagine 4D Boxing (Had polygon graphics that weren't bad at all) Frankly, I think that Polygon's are much smoother and realistic looking than BitMapped graphics. A better, ancient example is Dragon Strike. It's a dragon flight simulator that allowed switching between polygon and bitmapped graphics. The bitmaps were chunky but the polygon's were so smooth even though they were simple. The graceful flying of the wings, the arch of the neck <sigh> -- __________________________________________________________________________ | Rich Weber | The only way to find out what the buttons do | |--==(UDIC)==-- | Is to push them all.... | |Clueless Dragon| Wait! Not that button! | |=========================================================================| | Do you Realize, If I had a clue what I was talking about, I might make | | sense every now and then? | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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