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From: J C Lawrence <claw@under.engr.sgi.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:21:37 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 19:16:19 -0700
S Patrick Gallaty<choke@sirius.com> wrote:
> What's the next leap in technology? Well, I predict that a real 3d
> world with little tiny texture mapped characters a la total
> annihilation with the same isometric projection as UO... where you
> can zoom in and out and rotate (and change angle)
> Or is that not what you wanted to ask?
I have no data on their performance characteristics, or even if they
attempt to handle unbounded spaces, but Crystal Space looks
interesting:
URL:http://www.grimmware.com/CrystalSpace/
It is a "true 6DOF engine with arbitrary sloped convex polygons" under
the GPL.
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