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From: marc@eclipsesoftware.co.uk
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Subject: Re: freeserve sees the light (and octtrees)
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 18:25:59 +0000
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I agree! It'll be good to see some new games :-)

Head over to the yarozescene (www.yarozescene.co.uk) and check out the
competiton going on.


    Marc :-)


Matt Verran wrote:

> Hi Martin
>
>  Looking forward to seeing these games!
>
> MattV
>
> Martin Keates <martin@jabadaw.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:97pffv$deu1@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > today was a great day for science. Or, at least, suddenly I can see
> > the yaroze servers using freeserve. Marvellous. Now I can check
> > them every day instead of like once a month and possibly get
> > actively involved with this thing and upload stuff and things.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm Martin, I got my yaroze right at the end of them being
> > available. I've done a bit of 2D coding on it (couple of crap games
> > which I'll upload now I can do it for free) but I'm basically a 3D man.
> > My experience is in rendering (ray tracing, radiosity, volume
> > rendering) and VR (culling, collision detection and so on).
> >
> > People were talking about octrees and what good they are recently.
> > Well they are used a lot in rendering in particular ray tracing for
> > improving ray-object intersections. Other approaches are regular
> > grids or more generic subdivisions based on complexity. BB
> > hierarchies aren't so good (for this).
> > You could probably use octrees for culling and collision but BBs are
> > so fast even for massive models that there's probably not much
> > point. Anyway, as far as the yaroze goes, there probably isn't
> > enough memory in it to implement much of a spatial management
> > system - not such a general one anyway. I was going to try and
> > use something specific to whatever game I *am* going to write
> > someday. (high optimism there).
> >
> > I used Watt at university too (11 years ago...). I think Foley and
> > Van Dam is better, but no idea about recent books.
> >
> > later,
> > Martin.
> >
> >
> >