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Submitted by , posted on 19 October 2003
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The first screenshot is a picture of a modeller that I started writing about
2 years ago, and occasionally add to. It's called 'poido', which is short
for 'pointy dough'. It's written in C and uses DirectX 3 but all of the
rendering is done in software.
Apart from polygonal modelling functionality, it also features a built in
ray tracer which can use octree or uniform space subdivision, a keyframable
skeletal animation system, subdivision surfaces, pixel pushing tools, a uv
mapper, and a sound editor. One file can contain many different models,
bitmaps etc, so that it is easy to quickly navigate and edit the resources
for a game. It has a very minimal visual interface. Most operations are
performed with weird keyboard combinations and by typing in strings of text,
so it feels a bit like EMACS.
I wrote poido as a general game development tool, but so far I've mostly
just used it to push pixels. The second screenshot is a game made using
poido, which is called 'Zen Puzzle Garden'. It's a shareware puzzle game,
where the player controls a monk who has to rake Japanese rock gardens. You
can get the demo from my website: http://www.lexaloffle.com. It features
simulated ribbon effects (using a simplified 1D spring mass system), Wolf3D
style wall rendering (on a very small scale), and ..er.. lots of sand.. and
rocks.
-J
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