In the days "before" OpenGL
Post: #1
Came across a Macintosh "hackers" page with all sorts of interesting projects and programs. This is pretty old, but some of you might engine it.
http://www.async.caltech.edu/~kp/Mofrug/motex.html
His little article (remember this is from the Doom days) answers "Why can all those games have texture-mapped 3d and be fast at the same time?"
Cheers
http://www.async.caltech.edu/~kp/Mofrug/motex.html
His little article (remember this is from the Doom days) answers "Why can all those games have texture-mapped 3d and be fast at the same time?"
Cheers
Carlos A. Camacho,
Founder
iDevGames
Post: #2
Fascinating! So thats why they called it 2.5D. Personally I'm glad I never had to deal with crud like that. OpenGL has been around since I was in kindergarden!!!
Post: #3
... but it's only been usefully accelerated for 5 years or so now. Before then, it was way too slow to use for games...
Post: #4Quote:Originally posted by OneSadCookie
... but it's only been usefully accelerated for 5 years or so now. Before then, it was way too slow to use for games...
I didn't say it was fully accelerated when I was in kindergarten. I'm not THAT young. I'm saying that its first release was about when I was in kindergarten.
