Rebirth 3D Game Engine News
Some news about RB3D...
Stuff I Implemented From Yesterday On Now;
- Cool New DX 7.0 Support!
Stuff I Am Coding On During This Post;
- (*cool!*) Lens Flares
- Hardware Accelerated Sprites
- Polygon-Perfect Collision Detection
- Win32lib Clone in C
The coolest and biggest change after all this time I
didn't touch the engine, is Polygon Perfect Collision
Detection.
Before it was using a (faster) cubic method, wich
means that if you have two 3D spheres, and they
collide, it will be perceived by the engine asif they
were two boxes that intersected.
Not very nice.
With the new, a bit slower method, if you have two
spheres that collide, you can pin-point the exact
positions of the polygons from the two spheres that
collided.
This means that your 3D characters can walk on
mountains and go up and down the hills.
I needed teh engien for a Quake-like 3D FPS, so I
didn't reckon on my character walking on anything but
flat ground, stairs and slopes.
Remember now, those that think: "WHO CARES!", that
this is not a Direct 3D wrapper like Exotica, but a 3D
game engine.
Allso the acronym stands for:
"Rendering Engine with Bilinear Intersection Testing
Heap"
(The 'B' used to stand for Bicubic...)
It's a game engine and not a rendering engine.
The Win32Lib clone comes from the fact that Win32lib
programs call an infinite lopp called WinMain.
The engine requires you to call eighter Render(), wich
is an infite loop, or Update(), wich you must call in
an infinite loop of your own.
As you can't automatically add a call to Update() to
Win32lib's WinMain(), I decided it was best that I
translated Win32lib to C, added the extra call to
WinMain(), and give the dll you must link to a bit
more value than 3D rendering alone.
Besides, this way I can update the DLL with new
versions of Win32lib, so all you have to do is
download a new version of the DLL, instead of
scavaging through the imanese amount of different
Win32lib versions, and all those include files that
keep being added to Win32lib, etc.
And hey, for those without the complete edition
Translator, atleast you now get a version of Win32lib
that is faster.
Not to mention that C/C++ coders can use it too (For
personal issues, I am placing a lock that does not
allow VB programs to use the DLL. VB sucks, and should
keep on sucking.)
Ah well, just a few more lines of code I guess...
Mike The Spike
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