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- Magnus talking,
-
- > > > Another thing, does this version have lightning effects? Flashing light
- > > > and depth cued lighting?
- >
- > > Yes it does.
- >
- > > So it's still ahead of Bad Mood then. :-)
- >
- > I have been sent (what looks like) the latest version of the sources, and there
- > are no actual flashing lights - just linear depth cued lighting. In contrast, the
- > BM depth cue is curved, like in Doom, but this doesn't have a massive impact on
- > the visuals unless you are in a dark place...
-
- Yes, I noticed. I thought that it had flashing lights as Bertrand said yes on my question.
- It didn't have different lightlevels for sectors either (making the shadows).
-
- > Also, the transparent textures are not actually transparent - they are solid with
- > the holes filled black. The special 'sky' areas is not detected and treated
-
- I don't understand what Bertrand got that from... :-)
-
- > separately from normal ceilings. Most seriously, the texture mapping itself suffers
- > from severe inaccuracies which causes it to 'scroll' about you get too close to things.
- > There are also small gaps between textures, and frequent BSP problems in some places.
-
- Yep, I noticed. You got "flashing" pixels at the bottom of the wall in several places.
-
- After seeing the french doom I can say that Bad Mood has now passed it by a yard. :-)
- Bad Mood have got _much_ more implemented. The only thing it have got that BM havn't
- is the animated walls, but then BM have got much more than the french have.
-
- > Generally it looks very similar to BM at first glance aside from these gripes. Until
- > you walk around looking for problems (like I did!) it's hard to tell them apart.
-
- Yes, but you notice straight away that it's something missing (the lightning effects).
-
- > > Impressive. :-)
- >
- > It is VERY impressive, but I really can't agree that it's ahead of our own engine. That
- > would be an exaggeration. It is however a lot more advanced than it was last time I saw
- > it, even if the accuracy of some of the routines has dropped sharply since.
-
- I'm sorry. I said that before I had seen it, thinking that it had all lightning effects
- (which it doesn't have, it only have depth cueing) because Bertrand did say yes...
-
- It's still one of the best Doom engines for the falcon. Maybe the seconde best? :-)
-
- But you have forgot the most important part. SPEED! Bad Mood is still _much_ faster
- and it does look _much_ better. :-) Great! >:-]
-
- BTW. I think I have seen some monsters in Bad Mood.... ;-)
- Atleast, you get the feeling that you can see them in the distance sometime, havn't you
- seen them? The engine is so good that it's scary to walk around even if you know that
- there are no monsters... or are there..... aarrrrgghhh!!! :-|
-
- Atleast we got you back on the list after this mail. :-)))
-
- //Magnus Kollberg
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