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Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds
[Michael Hohensee:]
:Alternatively, graphics could be sent in the form of ascii code which
:describes how a ray-tracer or other rendering engine on the client side
:is to draw the scene. See my webpage (perpetually unfinished) for an
:example of what could be done.
How big would such a description be? Is it within the range of the 1K
that Caliban gave for the text description?
:It only takes a few seconds for the ray-tracer to draw a good little
:scene from any viewpoint within the world. It wouldn't be a purely
:graphical mud, but it'd give you the consistency you're looking for.
:Incidentally, such a system would quite neatly solve the problem of
:which objects should be shown to a player in a co-ordinate based world
:(just don't reflect light rays which travel more than X units away from
:you).
:
:Heh, maybe we should work on optimizing a ray-tracer. :)
Hasn't that already happened in some games? I'm pretty out of touch in
the rendering field, but I thought most polygon engines essentially did
ray-tracing of one ray for each polygon they draw, so as to get the
proper colour/texture for that polygon.
--
Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
- Thread context:
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds, (continued)
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA, Sun 25 Jan 1998, 18:55 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Mike Sellers mike#online-alchemy,com, Sun 25 Jan 1998, 20:05 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA, Mon 26 Jan 1998, 15:49 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA, Mon 26 Jan 1998, 15:49 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: (no subject),
Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA, Thu 01 Jan 1998, 23:19 GMT
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