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Re: Who owns the game engine?
Posted By: Cody MillerDate: 9/13/10 2:28 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Who owns the game engine? (Narcogen)


: Like Marathon, the Myth RTS games were "2.5D"-- not true 3D. I
: wouldn't be surprised if the Myth engine was built on the base provided by
: the Marathon engine.

No, as far as I know they Myth engine was fully 3D. The landscape and structures were rendered in fully 3D space. Only the units were sprite based.

Marathon was 2.5D because it 'cheated' a lot, and the game world wasn't rendered in true 3D. No rooms over rooms, and looking up and down was accomplished by distorting the geometry. For fun, make a physics file in Anvil that lets you look up higher than you otherwise could, and you'll see what it's doing.

So even though both used sprite for the units, Myth placed them in 100% 3D space.

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Who owns the game engine?GrimBrother One 9/10/10 11:28 p.m.
     Re: Who owns the game engine?Ragashingo 9/10/10 11:31 p.m.
           Re: Who owns the game engine?Hey You 9/11/10 12:17 a.m.
                 Re: Who owns the game engine?Ragashingo 9/11/10 1:01 a.m.
                       Re: Who owns the game engine?Eiii 9/11/10 4:51 a.m.
                       Re: Who owns the game engine?FyreWulff 9/11/10 5:01 a.m.
                       Re: Who owns the game engine?Narcogen 9/13/10 12:49 a.m.
                             Re: Who owns the game engine?Cody Miller 9/13/10 2:28 a.m.
                                   Re: Who owns the game engine?Narcogen 9/13/10 4:17 a.m.
                                         Re: Who owns the game engine?Wayward Spleen™ 9/13/10 7:42 a.m.
                                               Re: Who owns the game engine?Cody Miller 9/13/10 9:29 p.m.
                                                     Re: Who owns the game engine?Narcogen 9/14/10 2:02 a.m.
     Re: Who owns the game engine?RC Master 9/11/10 7:17 a.m.



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