1. Re: Euphoria To C: alpha-3 & euAllegro Status
- Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at IX.NET.AU>
Nov 27, 2000
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Last edited Nov 28, 2000
Hi Mark,
>Sounds interesting. Does the lib only support collisions on a 2d map
>(like a scroller, platformer etc) or does the library support collisions in
>3d space (perhaps utilising known coordinates in your object)? If not
>have you seen any libraries in your travels around the net, that could be
>used with 3d?
The PPCol collision detection is strictly 2D. Actually Allegro in general
is basically a 2D library, It does have some 3D math routines and polygon
rendering routines but nothing close to the high level Morfit routines.
I haven't seen any 3D collision detection libraries, although I think I
recall seeing some header descriptions on
news:comp.games.development.programming.algorithms recently mentioning
3D collision.
>I am pretty close to a new (Version 4) release of Morfit and am
only>waiting on completion of demo conversions myself (lots of MFC ones
>to do.....they are a chore). Once that is done, I would be pleased to
>help with some of the example conversions to Allegro if you need the
>help.
I had a look at your Morfit port and was very impressed. My PC is sadly
far to slow to run the demos at any worthwhile speed (P166 with crappy
onboard video card).
Have you looked at Crystal Space?
I wandered onto the web site on the weekend and it is an open source (C++)
3D engine. I haven't really heard of it before but for anyone interested
in 3D they should have a look into it.
I'd be happy for anyone to help writing conversions / demos for euAllegro
but ... (there always is a but)... I'll have to get some doco ready first.
At this stage I haven't written 1 line yet so it would be pretty difficult
to use it without some sort of introductory text.
Thanks for your interest Mark.
Ray Smith
