From: jpang@iris.bio.uts.edu.au (Jason Pang)
Subject: Re: MISC: PC based VR demos needed
Date: 3 Jul 1996 01:40:11 GMT
Message-ID: <4rcj1r$2nh@woodstock.socs.uts.EDU.AU>
Organization: School of Computing Sciences, UTS


Sim Yskes (sim@nyx.xs4all.nl) wrote:

: Simon Poole (sap@hplb.hpl.hp.com) wrote:

: : > how about Descent (and a VFX1 Headgear), or Doom or Heretic or Duke
: : > Nukem 3D...
: : > 

: : These are all very well, but are any of them true 3D?  I know Doom 
: : certainly isn't.  Something that uses true 3D on one of the standard 
: : rendering engines would be ideal.

: About descent, it is 3D. The walls have a real depth sensation, but
: the flying objects you have to shoot are sprites, which also move at
: different depths, but when they are close, the look as flat as a piece
: of paper.

Not in v1.5 or later. The sprites are solid and have shape. Same with 
Descent 2. The prisoners are stil flat though.

Jason
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