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Subject: Re: DOOM: A couple of questions regarding HOM
Message-ID: <1994Jul29.012303.69372@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
From: sloth@falcon.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Bingham)
Date: 29 Jul 94 01:23:03 CDT
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Paul Robinson (PAUL@tdr.com) wrote:
} From: Paul Robinson <PAUL@TDR.COM>
} Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
} -----
} I and someone I've been talking with have been creating our own wads for
} DOOM and have discovered an unusual Hall of Mirrors (HOM) effect that we
} can't quite pin down the cause for.
} In some cases a linedef defining a wall or a door will exhibit the
} following symptoms:
} - From some or most angles the wall or door is normal in appearance.
} - From one or more angles of viewing, the door's texture vanishes and it
} becomes invisible, causing a hall of mirrors effect.
} In short, there is a wall there, but the game loses it, but only from
} certain angles. I've looked at the instructions on building wads and
} haven't seen anything about this, and I've now had it confirmed that
} other people are noticing it.
Had this happen to me with a real long linedef. I used BSP1.1x instead
of Deu and it fixed right up. What program are you using, btw?
} My suspicion which I voiced to the other person was that the node
} building routines are not quite right, and are causing this effect.
} My first suggestion was the curve of the wall relative to its position,
} but he informed me that the wall he was doing was flat and was on a grid
} point using DEU's snap-to-grid feature.
} ---
} Paul Robinson - Paul@TDR.COM
} Voted "Largest Polluter of the (IETF) list" by Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
} -----
} The following Automatic Fortune Cookie was selected only for this message:
} The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper
} -- Thomas Jefferson
--
Bob "Da Sloth" Bingham
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