[MUD-Dev] Re: Back to the Future (was Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun)

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 19:16:19 -0700 
S Patrick Gallaty<choke at sirius.com> wrote:

> What's the next leap in technology?  Well, I predict that a real 3d
> world with little tiny texture mapped characters a la total
> annihilation with the same isometric projection as UO...  where you
> can zoom in and out and rotate (and change angle)

> Or is that not what you wanted to ask?

I have no data on their performance characteristics, or even if they
attempt to handle unbounded spaces, but Crystal Space looks
interesting:

  URL:http://www.grimmware.com/CrystalSpace/

It is a "true 6DOF engine with arbitrary sloped convex polygons" under
the GPL.

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