Re: [Sheflug] General Ramblings

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Alex Hudson wrote:

> There are *loads* of spare cycles. Apparently, the guy iD hired to do the
> AI for Q3 was hired just 'cos of a mod he did for Q1/2 (can't remember
> which). There are a lot of simple techniques which apparently work very
> well. I remember (years ago!) the first Amiga magazine I bought was Amiga
> Shopper, precisely for the AI series they ran back then ('92), it was
> extremely good.

Game AI is a lot different to "real AI" though, so it's hard to actually
be qualified in the field. Most of the stuff taught in universities seems
aimed at "classical" problems like chess and travelling salesman.
Which aren't much fun.

> On a serious games machine (playstation, Pc w/3d card etc.) it's usually
> the bus to the graphics card that's the problem. 3d cards do an *awful*
> lot these days ;)

Suffice it to say, if you setup your textures right you can push a LOT of
geometry across an AGP bus. Curved surfaces also need to be done in
software, AFAIK no graphics card in the consumer space offers parametric
surfaces in hardware.



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