----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Magnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Re: Open Letter To Hacker Community
> And 'good ole quake I'.. people complain that the Halflife engine is dated, > quake I rendering with significant improvements in many areas like > networking, animation, etc etc (essentially what Halflife is), is surely > dated as well, if we need new BSP formats for HL2, it's about time. I'm > sick of hearing level designers bitching about being limited, and I think > the new BSP format will STILL be limiting, but hopefully not so severely > so. Hopefully enough so to give me a few months reprieve before the artists > start bitching all over again (because we all know they will... ). BSP is becoming dated anyways, its main use was back when we had software renders and it made rendering without a z-buffer alot faster, now adays people are starting to drop BSP in favour of other systems such as octtress, ABT and virants on them, which are better suited to the new kinds of enviroments ppl want to make such as large open areas, jungles etc which dont have the 'box room' style partioning that BSP is perfectly suited for. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
