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From: yaroze@theburrow.co.uk (Barry & Robert Swan)
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Subject: Re: An adventure project
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 23:37:24 GMT
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Blimey, this is a nice few responses...

I had a look at the cyclone demo, it worked, I never thought more
about it until now when I could really use it. Now I'll have two file
servers to look at. And I was seriously considering CodeWarrior...
btw, does CodeWarrior have a half decent debugger? Its only since
getting my job that Ive realised how much effort they save, Ive im
love with them. Nice of Sony to supply the gdb docs with the Yaroze,
not. 

In terms of graphics format with rsdanim, that would be great. That
certainly isnt going to be rushed though, as Ive got to make sure that
the format does everything that I want it to before committing
(currently each vertex has 3 sets of RGB data; don't ask...!)

I do need to write some better way of handling the graphics and data
files. I know some people have written programs to do this, but in the
current state they wouldnt help much. So what Im hoping is that people
can either remind where these are stored so I can have a lok at them,
or better still send me some info on them so I can sort out exactly
what it is that I shoudl be doing. im being a bit lazy, as I dont
really want to have to get another 200+ previous messages from these
boards to track those utils down.

What else? oh yeah, maybe the compression routines that someone wrote
might be useful, although with file server functionality it may be a
moot point. Must admit I was planning on using VRAM for some array
storage though, so maybe it would remove the necessity for that.

Oh yeah, had another look at the Dragons Quest movie that made me want
to do an isometric adventure game; it is actually perspective
projection! oh wel... It really gives the impression of being Zelda
from SNES in 3d (as opposed to full 3d zelda on n64) and I think it
looks great. Im determined to see this through.

Will gladly look at the stuff asap, (prob next weekend).

Oh yeah, one side effect of using isometric perspective - no texture
warping, HURRAH! (sorry, a bit excited there)