Re: [Plib-users] plib for a game engine..

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>We now have loaders for LOTS of formats.  Quake's level file format is
>VERY weird - and we can't load that yet.  The Quake player/monster file
>format is supported though.  What format does WorldCraft use?

WorldCraft creates ".map" files.  They are ascii files and they rever to
textures in an assiciated ".wad" file.

There is a program called "map2cs" that converts this wad/textures to
native crystal space worldfile format (a zip file holding the
textures, point data, etc).

http://crystal.sourceforge.net/docs/online/manual/cs_88.htm#SEC123

You're probably right, especially with a converter already out there - it
should be fairly easy to write a loader for plib.

>Personally, I think the era of software rendering is dead.  ALL new
>computers are now shipped with hardware 3D...3D cards are down to
>sub-$100.  I have no interest in software rendering...for games at
>least.

I'll agree with you there, no-one ships video cards that aren't 3d capable
anymore.  Having the actual support under the appropriate operating system
is indeed another story though.  When the linux distributions start
shipping XFree86 4.0 (DRI) I am sure this problem will be mostly
resolved though.

>Well, we are getting new loaders appearing at an amazing rate...and
>they are truly not hard to write.

Yes, so true.  The list of loaders you already have is much more than I
realized from reading the docs.

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Brian