Thanks a lot for the kind words :D
To answer your questions Moe:
I''ve written a very basic scripting language - hey, I already have a great one in my pocket
Ravensoft''s ICARUS, but on the other side, this is for school
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As you can see when you open the intro.txt file there are also camera-commands, though'' they read very cryptic
Basically this way i control the camera, but if you want to have a look into my sources I''d be glad to email them to you.
About the hight map: this example uses 4x 4 heightmaps which are each based on a 256x256 image. I have written a "map-compiler" that takes a huge grayscale image( 2000x2000 for example ), renders the map and builds a texture map this way (with mountain, water, grass textures ) and then splits the whole thing into 256x256 chunks.
Then I load each chunk and split it again in 4x4 - a cheap quad-tree
Then you can imagine the way I handle culling: simple frustrum culling...
About the 40fps limit: I have one problem I didn''t tell you: the demo also runs on a higher frame rate on my crappy computer, but when my script loads a midi file there is a drastical drop in FPS for a moment, which is very very recognizeable. So by limiting to 40fps I reduce the drop''s influence.
Do you know if it is possible to load a midi using DirectMusic on startup and then play it when needed? So I could avoid it....
Linux is like a wigwum: No windows, no gates - apache inside... :D
During the last months I have been working on a little 3D engine in DirectX and created a demo - it''s for a school project.
It''s a nice little world, non-interactive, plays a movie 
) in it. It ran smooth (always right around the 40fps) on my celeron 466, geforce 2 mx200. I have a few questions and suggestions:
