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		*       Copyright (C) 1997 by ArBy Technology  	       *
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		*          Baldan Roberto 1st September '97            *
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							T E T R I S

						example of 3D game

First of all:
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To develop this application I used Microsoft Developer Studio, Visual C++ 4.0.
You would not find much problems to port it in any different environment,
because of use of standard C makefile to compile and build with GNU compiler.
Anyway you may find strange indentation behaviours due to Microsoft's editor.

To start the game invoke: Siocons auto

Please, play it for a little long, to discover all of the features I put on it  

Thanks for your attention.
Contact me at roba@ve.shineline.it

Roberto Baldan.


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Controls
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Quit 				- Select + Start
Pause				- Start
Continue			- Start
Continue from end	- Start
Exit replay mode	- Start
Step inside			- Select
Center				- Select		
Move piece			- Left pad
Translate			- Left pad
Rotate piece		- Right pad
Rotate 				- Right pad
Rotate (in game)	- R1, R2, L1, L2

And much more.

Aim
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How to make PlayStation crash down by too much polygons.

Overview Of Construction
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Mapping is not too bad, but rendering makes me out.


Description
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Here is a 3D Tetris-like game.
It is not so playable 'cause of a bad viewing of the field, but
I think it will be a good template for use of mapping and run-time polygons
contruction and manipulation.

The core of polygons manipulation is defined in TMDShape.h,
where are defined m_Top, m_Bottom, m_Front, m_Left, m_Right used for 
grid construction, also is defined m_cube that is the basic cube for piece
construction.

TMD.h is given for Sony by Ashley, to define basic modeling structures.

Block.h, Block.c
	Here are handled the different shapes of the seven pieces.

Main.c
	Is used for initializations and main loop.

Map.h, Map.c
	Describe the map of the game field.

Monitor.h, Monitor.c
	Monitorize all game moves, for use in Replay mode.

Pad.h, Pad.c
	For use of the controller.

Sound.h, Sound.c
	Play our favourite songs.

Tetris.h, Tetris.c
	Is where all the game's rules are acknowledged.

and finally mountTMD.c
	Stores all initializations, run-time manipulations and rendering of the
	polygon models.


Problems
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You may find a loss in performance and eventually a crash down in 
cases of use of a large game field with associated background grid on.