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<LI><em>From</em>: "D. B. Brown" <<A HREF="mailto:dbrown1#stny,lrun.com">dbrown1#stny,lrun.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:44:54 -0400</LI>
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From: Koster, Raph <rkoster#origin,ea.com>
To: 'mud-dev#kanga,nu' <mud-dev#kanga,nu>
Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 7:51 PM
Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: Alternate UOL's
>You're not going to have a viable 3d engine with 3d meshes for figures
>unless you spend at least two years developing it. Consider the basic
>problem: you need to support 30-40 fully animated 3d figures moving on
>screen at once, in a 3d environment, ideally all with distinct meshes,
>art, and equipment.
I'm actually working on a system used as the front end of a mud. Generally,
no more than five or six animated objects on screen at once. That,
combined with highly dynamic data, especially data to be displayed that was
entered as text.
Not that a 3D system will be easy, but it's a better alternative than
trying to put together a 2D system and rely on a steady art income.
>This is an extremely non-trivial problem for a 3d engine. There's a
>reason why folks like 989 Studios (formerly Sony Interactive, makers of
>EverQuest) have been working on it for so long--and are requiring 3d
>acceleration--and still only show 5-6 people at once.
Cavedog's Total Annihilation has done this pretty well, even without
acceleration, but I suspect that the shortcuts taken in their engine
would lessen its effectiveness in the CRPG world.
D. B. Brown
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00497" HREF="msg00497.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Alternate UOL's</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 05 Aug 1998, 20:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00501" HREF="msg00501.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Alternate UOL's</A></strong>,
D. B. Brown <a href="mailto:dbrown1#stny,lrun.com">dbrown1#stny,lrun.com</a>, Wed 05 Aug 1998, 21:57 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00503" HREF="msg00503.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Alternate UOL's</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#mail,angel.com">adam#mail,angel.com</a>, Wed 05 Aug 1998, 22:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00502" HREF="msg00502.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Alternate UOL's</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Wed 05 Aug 1998, 22:33 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00517" HREF="msg00517.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Alternate UOL's</A></strong>,
D. B. Brown <a href="mailto:dbrown1#stny,lrun.com">dbrown1#stny,lrun.com</a>, Thu 06 Aug 1998, 12:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00521" HREF="msg00521.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Alternate UOL's</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Thu 06 Aug 1998, 16:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00529" HREF="msg00529.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Alternate UOL's</A></strong>,
Nathan F Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Thu 06 Aug 1998, 18:08 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01022" HREF="msg01022.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Alternate UOL's</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Sat 12 Sep 1998, 01:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01024" HREF="msg01024.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Alternate UOL's</A></strong>,
Adam J. Thornton <a href="mailto:adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU">adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU</a>, Sat 12 Sep 1998, 08:44 GMT
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