Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] FYI: Fw: 3DSTATE 3D News

[Warren Greenway <opensourcesub@yahoo.com>]

It was written in ANSI C. C++ produced code that was
too slow and large. I recall the binary being under
100KB, but I'm not sure at which point that was. It
was certainly quite a bit under a meg. There was under
three thousand lines of code involved, if I remember
correctly. It also had an integrated collision and
transform engine, neither of which would be needed
on a sub. My brother and I were working on a re-vamp
to increase speed futher, and add some features like
selectable object highlights, but when the outside
interest in the project dried up we dropped it.

Warren.

--- Steven Mills <barycenter@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >From: Warren Greenway <opensourcesub@yahoo.com>
> >
> > OK. It was originally written for a multiplayer
> game,
> > but the project wasn't popular and I got tired of 
> > flogging a dead horse. The rendering portion of
> the
> > code works quite well, though. The 3D image to be
> > rendered is represented by HTML style code. A
> faster
> > version could be written that used pre-compiled
> code.
> > The engine compiled the code at startup and stored
> it
> > as a binary array. Hundreds of thousands of
> polygons
> > in an image don't phase it. 
> > 
> > Warren.
> > 
> 
> 
> Thanks !  I'm still interested, but have too many
> irons in the fire
> to be able to give it a try for now. I'll contact
> you later about it.
> 
> I'm particularly fascinated with :
> 
> > ........ Hundreds of thousands of polygons
> > in an image *don't phase it*. 
> 
> Out of curiousity, how many lines of code did you
> write for this
> and what was the resulting size of the binary? [ I
> assume you
> wrote it in C++ ?  ]
> 
> --Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 


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