Racing Ghosts (As this unfolds)

[Baker]

[gnounc]

[Baker]

Spikes's method there doesn't backface cull in the literal sense, but causes the "backfaces" to Z-fail in the renderer.

So while it isn't actually backface culling, for what you see on the screen it might as well be.

[I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds like it should work ...]

[taniwha]

Not so much as "back face" culling as "embedded face" culling: back face culling is already done for alias models.

As an aside, I have to double check, but I believe the player model's verts are nicely organized something like: body, gun, axe. If that's true, it would be possible to optionally not draw parts.

[Baker]

Here is the un-cleanedup source code to create a ghost.

http://quake-1.com/docs/utils/_Fitz_Mark5_R8_Demo5.rar

Type "ghostdemo demo1; map e1m3" in the console after compiling.

I'm mostly releasing the source in this thread right now since right now I'm in the midst of coding other stuff and don't want to take a hour cleaning up the source. To clearly see the changes, WinMerge or diff against FitzQuake Mark V Revision 7 ( http://quake-1.com/docs/utils/fitzquake_mark_v_r7.zip )

I don't want to hold back anyone who has any ideas or thoughts or curiosity ...

[Baker]

[Spike]

you'll likely still need to sort transparent models with respect to each other, of course
you can write all the depth first, then the transparencies, but doing so will not show models through other models.

you can still do alpha testing with it too, for fence testures, if needed.