On 4/4/2012 6:35 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
BGB wrote:
still not heard the term CGF before though.
If you do military simulations, CGF (Computer Generated Forces) and
SAF (Semi-Automated Forces) are the equivalent terms of art to "game
engine." Sort of.
"military simulations" as in RTS (Real Time Strategy) or similar, or
something different?... (or, maybe even like realistic simulations used
by actual military, rather than for purposes of gaming?...).
Wikipedia hasn't been being very helpful here regarding a lot of this
(it doesn't seem to know about most of these terms).
well, it does know about "game engines" and RTS though.
I guess maybe this confusion is sort of like the confusion over the use
of the term "brush" for "a piece of static world geometry typically
defined in terms of a complex polyhedron represented in terms of a
collection of bounding planes (but may also potentially include bezier
patches and mesh geometry)".
but, as-is, there is no clearly better term for this, so people have to
live with it (not like Quake / Source / Unreal / ... don't use the same
term, grr...).
or such...
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