-- What's New in v1.27 -- - Made some changes to core engine that help increase quality. Too slow? Press 'O' and decrease the quality. This is the first Scratch 3D engine! The goal of this project is to make 3D as simple as 2D is. The project works by casting 2D rays into a 2D map and generating distance calculations based off that. This makes it super easy to edit the 3D environment: simply edit the map. Unfortunately this renderer currently doesn't have physics support or full 3D mouse look (coming soon in v2!), but this is enough for most basic projects. What's coming in V2: - More speed and optimizations ✓ - Basic 3D physics - 3D mouselook ✓ - Textured floor/ceiling - better lighting algorithms - 16-color rendering support based off map
I got the idea of a 3D engine when looking at some 3D project code. It all had to be custom-made for the specific project. The goal here was to create something that can be used to create all sorts of 3D projects from Laser Tag games to Mazes and to make it easy to edit the environment. If you use this in your project, please be sure to credit me so that more people can make their own 3D games easily! A simple "3D renderer is 'Optimized Raycast Engine' by Bold_Cat" goes a long way! - What the settings do - Press 'O' for options - RenderResolution is currently broken, doesn't do anything - Wall color changes the color of the walls - Smoothing changes the amount of averaging between the different samples, reducing color stripes and jagged lines (but it also makes it slower). 1 means no smoothing - Speed changes player speed - Quality changes the sample resolution, the higher the better. This basically means the distance values are more precise. NOTE: Please do not max this out right away as it may cause the project to crash. Slowly increase until the frame rate gets low.
