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- I3D is a software tool kit designed to help you create your own interactive
- 3D programs in C. If you're interested in creating a program similar to
- Castle Wolfenstein or Ultima Underworld - I3D is for you!
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- Applications developed with I3D may be distributed royalty-free!
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- I3D can be used to create MS-DOS or MS Windows applications.
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- I3D is essentially a link library which provides a set of functions that
- create a view bitmap. The view bitmap shows what the viewer can see of the
- 3D virtual world from his location when looking in the direction he is facing.
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- The I3D library also provides simple functions for drawing in the 320 x 200,
- 256-color VGA mode, and functions to read 256 color PCX files. These
- functions are included as a convenience for DOS programmers, and you may
- substitute your own graphics library and your own functions for reading 256
- color bitmap files if you wish.
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- I3D is designed for programmers that are familiar with the C language and
- programming either under MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows. Since I3D involves the
- drawing of bitmaps, the user should have some programming background in
- computer graphics.
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- I3D supports the following features:
- * High speed texture mapping of walls, floors and ceilings.
- * Animated texture maps.
- * Transparent textures.
- * Reading of PCX 256 color files.
- * Variable window size.
- * Collision detection (viewer with walls, objects with viewer).
- * Joystick, keyboard and mouse support for navigation.
- * Pick (hit) detection.
- * Full screen 320x200 VGA mode in Windows.
- * Large world maps, world maps can be edited as bitmaps.
- * Look up / look down (Page Up / Page Down keys in demos).
- * Full C source code to demo programs.
- * Printed manual.
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