Re: Heightfields

Ido Yehieli <Ido.Yehieli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 24, 8:17=A0am, 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.

Indeed! Most contemporary roguelikes effectively assume the user's terminal
is a slightly crippled VT320.

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.

Yes. They support it by *not using heightfields*.

Doom used heightfields, and the original Doom has *no* room-over-room
areas whatsoever. Someone subsequently discovered a way of simulating
that kind of "true 3D" effect by some really vile hacks that depend on
the minutiae of the Doom engine; those derivatives of the Doom engine
which try to use proper 3D modelling choke when presented with those
hacks.
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