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From: Darco <rquat@surfsouth.com>
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Subject: 3D Splines
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 22:39:33 -0500
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I will be working on a 3D raceing game, but I need to do my research on
3D environments first. The "Blaze of Glory" 3D engine won't work for
this game, and I wanted to experement with other engines. The 3D system
in "Hover Raceing" is awesome, and after playing it for a while, I came
to the conclusion that it uses 3D splines to create it's tracks. I've
done stuff with dynamic TMD's, so making the TMD shouldn't be a prob -
the splines though are gonna be my prob.

Does anyone have any information on how splines work, and/or how to
implement them with code?

Another system that I wanted to consider would be making the entire 3D
world in a program like 3D Studio and then using that as the race track.
That's all good, but I have no idea how I would implement colision
detection. 

any help would be appreciated.

'darco
darco@bigfoot.com