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Letters from Terra - Life in water warmed by sunlight
 
 

     
 
 

     
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3D Engine completed

It has almost killed me, but finally I completed my 3D engine over the half term holidays. I was feeling kinda depressed after being ill again, so I decided I needed a project to get me going. It was really good to get the old thing working, since it's been one of my longest running projects: parts of the engine date back to the time when I was using BGI graphics and 4 polygons! However, it's all good stuff, and the texture mapper takes my breath away every time I see it. Be warned though, it's all in my inimitable style, and my own format too, so if you want a tutorial on how to build your own you're probably best to look at my documentation on how it works. A pretty big demo is available for download, but fortunately this isn't reflected in the size of the file, or the speed on the engine. Wonder around my own surreal, dream informed landscape: there's some pretty weird stuff out there. The engine should run very fast on a modern machine, but this release does require a pentium processor: sorry, but the FPU code will only work if the FPU is onboard, for some unaccountable reason. Apart from that, the demo currently runs in 320x200, has lighting effects (crude but surprisingly effective), dynamically loads models as explained on the front page, and streams textures out of the XMS. The demo is also big enough to get lost in, seriously.

Download 3D demo (124 Kb, zipped) | 3D Engine pages | View Screenshots of Engine
 
 
Letters from Terra | Updated 15th December 2004 | By Jonathan Ayling