Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Tom Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: SFA3 among other things Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:26:11 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 47 Message-ID: <37243133.773C@bristol.ac.uk> References: <3721ADF6.3D9A@bristol.ac.uk> <7fup94$1se3@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: m15.fen.bris.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I) Nick Ferguson wrote: > Mmmm, yes it has been quiet. I know I'm concerned with my finals, hence the > lack of my usual sparky presence on this group (you shitbags) ;) Finals, what a pain. I'm bricking myself over the end of year exams and I'm only in the second year. > Dunno. I was downtown yesterday, and I didn't notice it. I DID notice that > Virgin was selling Ridge Racer Type 4 for 29.99 What branch was that? The Bristol branch was selling it for 39.99 when I was there this weekend, so I didn't buy it. They /did/ have the complete game running (with a memory card in the Playstation) so I played that for about an hour before being kicked off by the staff. > I'll be there! ;) As that famous fox says, 'Boom, Boom'. > as for PCs - I hope at least one person has a shitter PC than mine - the whole setup would be fairly reasonable except for the hideous Cyrix processor. It claims to be running at 200MHz, but my flatmate's 133 runs twice as fast. I don't suppose anyone wants to sell me an Intel P233? > Yes, I had a look at it and I'm very impressed. It's the sort of work that > depresses me, because you're obviously a much better coder than me! I don't know about that, a friend on my course has written a real time voxel landscape engine. Unfortunatly, I couldn't copy the routine he used to do it as it creates a fish-eyed kind of effect and only allows for one degree of freedom. Ho hum, a painfully slow ray casting engine for me. > I'll load it up again tonight and let you have some comments via e-mail... Thanks a lot. Apparently the new version (still not finished) does all kinds of mutlithreading and stuff, and HAS A PROGRESS BAR, so you know if your PC has crashed or not. I've also written a cunning height smoothing routine so the landscapes don't look like their made of Lego when viewed close up. Cheers, Tom