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From: jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Elite!
Summary: solid graphics
Message-ID: <2716@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Dec 88 05:25:21 GMT
References: <2749@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>
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In article <2749@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>, agollum@engr.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes:

> in California I am pleased to announce that Elite will be out for the Amiga
> around the middle of next month!

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! This is one of my 3 favorite games
that I would love to see on the Amiga, 2 others are Ball Blazer (by
Lucas Film Games distributed by EPYX) and Wilderness (by Electric Transit,
distributed by EA) (Lords Of Conquest, M.U.L.E. ok, I like games).

> PS: The graphics are solid and colored now, but you could probably have
> guessed that :-)

In StarGlider 1 for the C/64 I understand that the wireframe was sold
in the manual as a special type of "transparent military imaging system"
which allows you to see objects which would otherwise be occluded by
your opponent. Actually, I like this idea...

For those that don't know, hidden lines in a single object WERE removed,
it is just that you could see other objects behind the one being shown.
(This is a standard graphics technique, write me if interested.)

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			Mike Davis ..!att!ihlpm!jmdavis

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