Re: [TuxKart-devel] tuxgames

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Caleb Sawtell wrote:

> wow I did not know that I thought that the  Nintendo 64's did 3d rendering...

They do 3D render most things - but they couldn't get the performance they
needed with full-3D for the very detailed kart models - so they cheated!

> is there AC3D for linux?

Yep.  Actually, AC3D *started* on Linux and was ported to Windows later.

>>The version of Tuxkart in CVS supports 'mirrored' tracks which adds some
>>extra life to the existing levels.
> 
> I will go check it out tomorrow

You also need the PLIB that's in CVS because the collision-detection
routines have to be aware that the polygons are mirrored - or else
everything looks to be backfaced.   You can tell OpenGL to reverse
the direction that it uses for culling - but there was no such option
in PLIB until I added it a while back.

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