RayCaster Page Now Online
Now that this project is becoming interesting, I've decided to give it its own
webpage. RayCaster is a retro 3D game engine I'm programming which works similar
to the Wolfenstein 3D, Blake Stone, and Rise of the Triad engines. It will
eventually play host to an entire game that I am designing from scratch, some
details of which I may release here at a later date when more progress is made.
The RayCaster engine will also eventually become open source and will be released
under the GNU General Public License, so that everyone can have maximum fun with it.
Why use ray casting? This is the first of my hopefully many retro game projects,
and it is meant to capture a distinct "old school" atmosphere. At the same time,
however, RayCaster will use some more modern techniques that could never have
appeared in older ray casting engines. It will, for example, include distance
fading in 32-bit color via the use of alpha blending, it will support maps of
any size, it supports safe no-clipping and can never exceed the screen or world
boundaries under any circumstance, and it supports changes in camera height and
y-shear, allowing actions like crouching, flying, and looking up or down.
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