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Article #4699Need a Graphics/Animation package
From: Steven J Owens
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1989 10:38
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1989 10:38
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Hello out there in Netland. Well. After hearing all kinds of wonderful praise for the Mac from various people, and for the wonderful graphics capabilities, I'm looking for a software package for it. Actually, I'm looking for one for a friend, whose roommate just bought a Mac. Okay, here's a chance for all of you Mac aficianados to prove how good Macs are. What I'm looking for is in essence very simple. Basically a sort of "adventure game construction package." In simple terms, once somebody else has spent an hour or three putting together the components, the software should enable my friend to go through two stages: 1] He uses the mouse to build a little map of rooms and hallways and so forth, and places obstacles in the hallways. This is done map style. 2] Then, when he's done, somebody can simply progress through the map, in 3D, and move along these rooms and hallways and so forth. The ability should be there to have fairly sophisticated art - but only in a sort of "picture" format. Animation would be nice, but not essential. The ability to put in things for the player to have to "fight" and/or defeat, and the ability to have objects that the player can carry around, would also be nice. The more the merrier. Anybody heard of something that does this? PD, freeware or shareware would be great. A commercial package with a reasonable price would be good. FTP'able or e-mailed would also be terrific. Any takers? C'mon, here's your chance to show me how terrific the Mac is. From what I've heard the things I want to do aren't all that hard to set up, but I'm no Mac programmer, and neither is my friend. Steven J. Owens | Scratch@Pittvms | Scratch@unix.cis.pitt.edu "Well, that's one of the differences between life and fiction, after all. Fiction is supposed to make sense." _Telling_Lies_For_Fun_&_Profit_, Lawrence Block
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre.dsl.pitt.edu!pitt!unix.cis.pitt.edu!scratch From: scratch@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Steven J Owens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Need a Graphics/Animation package Summary: A request and a challenge... Message-ID: <19601@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 17 Sep 89 10:38:47 GMT Reply-To: scratch@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Steven J Owens) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services Lines: 40