Re: Heightfields

On Jul 24, 8:17 am, Narf the Mouse <largemo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Default consoles don't tend to support more than 16 or 255 colours, for
one thing. So hard to do depth.

Roguelike doesn't necessarily mean ASCII, and ASCII doesn't
necessarily mean a VT100 terminal emulator.


Paul Donnelly wrote:
Aside from not supporting room over room
on a given map without some extra hackery, but most games don't do that
anyway.

I believe most 3D games support it since the first Quake, which was 13
years ago.


-Ido.
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