Re: Quake, WOW!

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From: hor... Hordur Kvaran
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 00:00

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In <418l3n$1...@news.acns.nwu.edu> sger...@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Steven Gershenfeld) writes:

>Dark Forces:  3D engine and about 4 degrees of freedom for your character.
>Descent:  3D engine and 6 degrees of freedom for your character.
>Doom, Doom2:  2.5D engine and 3 degrees of freedom for your character.
>Heretic:  2.5D engine and 3-4 degrees of freedom for your character.

>2.5D engine means simulated z-axis. 

I don't think those degrees of freedom are correct.  If you say 2.5D means a
simulated z-axis Doom only has 2 DOF.  DF has 4 DOF (the fourth being 
rotation of head on one axis).
To take this thread back to Quake the guys at id have stated 6 DOF and they 
better deliver.

Hordur Kvaran
hor...@rhi.hi.is
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>Steven

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Subject: Re: Quake, WOW!
Date: 1995/08/21
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