From gauthe_a@epita.fr Mon Feb 3 11:46:07 1997 Return-Path: gauthe_a@epita.fr Received: from boson (root@boson.epita.fr [163.5.1.4]) by menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA20551 for <alain@cs.stevens-tech.edu>; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 11:46:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from aux.epita.fr [163.5.1.37] by boson for <alain@cs.stevens-tech.edu> (ESMTP) Paris France Mon, 3 Feb 1997 17:43:33 GMT Received: from gauthe_a@freon.epita.fr [163.5.1.6] by aux.epita.fr for alain@cs.stevens-tech.edu Paris France Mon, 3 Feb 1997 17:43:40 GMT Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 17:43:40 GMT From: alain gautherot <Alain.Gautherot@epita.fr> Message-Id: <199702031743.RAA11167@aux.epita.fr> To: alain@cs.stevens-tech.edu Status: OR Paris, December 15th 1996 Hi everybody! This is the second and last release of this basic 3d engine running on the Bebox. Now It's time for me to develop a craft multi-purposes 3d engine. You have to know the current viewing system is so simple that it depends even on the generated picture's size! This is why the displayed objects are so stretched when close to the viewing point. 1) Main features - 8 & 32 bits support (32 looks best) - painter's algorithm rendering - flat, mapped, phong-like & phonged mapped polygons 2) File format The only 3d format supported yet, is a home-made one which consists in 3 different files per object: .vrt: vertices file .ofc: faces file .nvs: normals file (used for phong and texture mapping) The file parsers for following format have been written and should be released... shortly (well I hope so, because there is still a certain amount of work to be done: a lot of data are skiped though they should not): dxf, obj, nff, off, 3d2, 3ds 3) Installation run a terminal and type: gunzip 3dMo-dr8.tar.gz tar xpvf 3dMo-dr8.tar You get a "3dMo-dr8" directory containing the "Textures" and "3dObjects" directories: that's where the application looks for objects & textures when launched. So don't remove them from the binary's directory. The 3rd file is the executable: 3dMo-dr8 Run it and have fun! 4) Keys you can make x & y axys rotations using the arrow keys, and zoom in/out using page up/down keys. The Esc key reset point of view Well, a straightforward use of keys, isn't it? 5) What's next? As previous releases, the BeOS capabilities are not used, especially the multi-threaded renderer has not been written (I still don't know the best way to do it) If you're are interested in a particular routine, or if any suggestions, feel free to contact me at the following address (until mid'97): gauthe_a@epita.fr If you are involved in 3d computer graphics, I would be pleased to talk about 3d developping on the Bebox. BeBox rulzzzzzzzzzz! -- Alain Gautherot aka JoOl, Yet another DSPrider Epita, Paris: gauthe_a@epita.fr "No matter how long the sword is, if we doesn't know about vertue"