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From: pmccormi@xenophon.mit.edu (Patrick J McCormick)

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Subject: ANNOUNCE: bsp2wrl - Quake VRML!

Date: 19 Dec 1996 19:33:00 -0000

Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology

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Keywords: VRML Quake bsp2wrl

>From the same place (but different people) that brought you DOOM2VRML

comes...

bsp2wrl: The Quake BSP to VRML converter.

You can find it (and all the Quake shareware level conversions) at:

http://web.mit.edu/pmccormi/www/bsp2wrl/

bsp2wrl outputs VRML 1.0, VRML 2.0, and OpenInventor. The VRML 2.0 doesn't

have any more features than VRML 1.0 but is structured a bit differently.

All lighting, viewpoints, texture mapping are properly implemented. On a

fast, memory-heavy machine with a good VRML browser, it looks just like the

real thing.

The current known bugs are that viewpoint rotations are always 90 degrees

and lights don't always work correctly.

You need a pretty heavy-duty machine to view the larger levels. Let's just

say that seeing Quake in a VRML browser makes you really appreciate how

fanastic a rendering engine Quake has.

We'll be working on this project over January, hopefully adding a Win95 GUI

for the converter, some VRML 2.0 interactive sensors tied to doors and

whatnot, as well as optimization tweaks.

Feel free to take a look and tell us what you think.

Pat McCormick (pmccormi@mit.edu)

Anthony Accardi (accardi@mit.edu)