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Landscaping

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From: Robert Gasch
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:28
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I dimly remember many years ago a game on the ZX Spectrum (it IS a
long time ago) called "Lords of Midnight" which used a technique
called landscaping to generate pictures of a landscape as the
player moved through it. 

Does anybody out there know what this exactly entails? The only 
practical ways of doing this (that I can come up with) are using
a set of predefined bitmaps and putting them into place as you
interprete the landscape around you.

Any pointers at algorithms, tricks and other useful hints will be
well appreciated. If you know any (Unix) software out there that
achives this or a similar effect, please let me know where I can
get it from.


Thanks a lot
--> Robert

 
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From: rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch)
Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer
Subject: Landscaping
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Date: 18 Nov 92 13:28:37 GMT
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