Re: Doom or Quake? Give me Doom! (longish)

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From: p... Piercarlo Grandi
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 21:19

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>>> On Thu, 05 Jan 1995 01:30:40 -0600, lthu...@bga.com (Jeff Kramer) said:

Jeff> Try looking into VRML or whatever.  The virtual reality markup language. 
Jeff> It's like HTML for 3D.  It defines objects, links, etc.  You can get to
Jeff> the info page from HotWired, I do believe.  The language has been
Jeff> described, all that is needed now is support.

Perhaps -- but what we have in the DOOM/QUAKE egines is a *working* here
now realizer of 3D worlds, with a company behind it that derives income
from it. VRML is just a specification. Perhaps the WAD format could be
easily extended to encompass VRML, perhaps not. In any case I still
think that:

pcg> I think it would be much easier to extend something like the DOOM
pcg> engine to be like Mosaic than to extend Mosaic to provide 3D
pcg> ambiences.

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From: p...@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
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