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In <41d9ss$7...@its.hooked.net> caou...@hooked.net (Michael Caouette) writes:

>In article <41acnk$d...@eldborg.rhi.hi.is>,
>   hor...@rhi.hi.is (Hordur Kvaran) wrote:

>>
>>>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.
>>
>>
>If DF was only 4 DOF, then why do you have to duck in some areas and jump over 
>others?
I was wrong.  DF has 5 DOF but the extra DOF is that the character can rotate
around his z-axis.  Degrees of freedom are as follows:
1.   Forward/backward (y-axis)
2.   Left/right (x-axis)
3.   Up/down (or jumping/ducking)
4.   Turning character around z-axis.
5.   Rotating head up/down (rotating around x-axis)

If the character had been able too look around corners like in System shock
you would have had 6 DOF.

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