DUMB

[Russell_P]

I don't know if this is old news, but I found this doom variation today and haven't seen any mentions of it on DW before.

http://samba.anu.edu.au/dumb/index.html

http://www.programfiles.com/Default.asp?LinkId=10768

[Opulent]

"DUMB does not use a BSP (binary space partitioning) algorithm to order wall textures. Instead it insertion-sorts the walls on the fly (a feature inherited from wt). This has the advantage that map vertices can move during the game without a costly BSP tree reconstruction."
intruiging.

[sirjuddington]

Sounds interesting. Pity it's Linux only (at least the publicly available binaries are).

[boris]

How "new" is that thing? The only release date I found on the page was 1997. And most (if not all) of the downloads, like the source files, don't work, so it's worthless.

[Russell_P]

heh. I never said it was new or worthwhile. I just mentioned it because I'd never heard of it before and thought others might be interested.

[Use]

Well I for one am glad you found it, it's kinda cool. Sucks that it's not updated.

[LogicDeLuxe]

Indeed, sounds interesting. I didn't heard of it before either.

Maybe one of the recent advanced ports could implement such a no-bsp-feature.

Looking at the Build Engine's code might be a good start for implementing such a renderer, as it exactly does this, and it is even very fast in it.
No one would ever need those restricted and often bleeding polyobjects again.