Re: Quake, WOW!

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

Article #3867

Back to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Previous Next

#3867

From: caou... Michael Caouette
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 00:00

34 lines
1736 bytes

In article <41acnk$d...@eldborg.rhi.hi.is>,
   hor...@rhi.hi.is (Hordur Kvaran) wrote:
>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
>*****************************************************
>This tag line conTains exactly threee errors.
>*****************************************************
>
>>Steven
>
>
>
If DF was only 4 DOF, then why do you have to duck in some areas and jump over 
others?

Mike Caouette
caou...@hooked.net
mi...@mysoftware.com

Technical Details

Message-ID: <41d9ss$7vg@its.hooked.net>

Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References:

<ARNULF.95Aug7233134@arnulf.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <GoldED.199508171830198806.kana@law.muni.cz> <416qel$771@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <41813q$5ic@nnrp3.primenet.com> <418l3n$1bl@news.acns.nwu.edu> <41acnk$dmr@eldborg.rhi.hi.is>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

From: caou...@hooked.net (Michael Caouette)
Subject: Re: Quake, WOW!
Date: 1995/08/22
Message-ID: <41d9ss$7vg@its.hooked.net>
X-Deja-AN: 108763602
references: <ARNULF.95Aug7233134@arnulf.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <GoldED.199508171830198806.kana@law.muni.cz> <416qel$771@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <41813q$5ic@nnrp3.primenet.com> <418l3n$1bl@news.acns.nwu.edu> <41acnk$dmr@eldborg.rhi.hi.is>
organization: Hooked Online Services
newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Reply to Parent Message