Re: pfFun - Quake2 loaders

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Wed, 03 Jun 1998 17:44:20 -0700

Rick Weyrauch wrote:
>
> Performer users,
>
> I've put together a set of Performer 2.2 loaders for id's Quake2 model
> (.md2) and level (.bsp) files.
>
> The MD2 model loader supports animations using a custom pfEngine. The
> model loader has a simple API to play back portions of the animations.
> With a bit of code you can have Stroggs wandering around Performer town.
>
> The BSP loader renders multipass lightmaps and uses the visibility
> information in the BSP file to speed rendering. The BSP loader also has
> a callbacks to allow the processing of Quake2 entity information stored
> in the BSP (ie, the location of power-ups, weapons, monsters, etc).
>
> If you are interested I'll send you the source.
>

Cool, Phil Nemec has been porting Quake2 to SGI and has completed the
task now. There may be a shareware version on SGI's soon. It looks
quite good 1280x1024 anti-aliased.

Cheers,Angus.

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