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*   Demo:   Texture Mapping Plus  Type:    Amstrad CPC Emulator DSK File      *
*   Author: Odiesoft              Webpage: http://www.odiesoft.de             *
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*   File:   Odiesoft Demos - Enhanced Texture Mapping (1996).dsk              *
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Title: Texture Mapping Plus
Year:  1996


I've created a texture mapping demo for a German Amstrad CPC 10th anniversary
demo called Jubilee Joy in 1994. The texture mapping wasn't of course a "real"
texture mapping. It was precalculated and the cube was only able to rotate
around the y-axis, but it was meant to demonstrate that a texture mapping is
doable on the CPC.

But I wasn't fully satisfied with the texture mapping. In the original version
was a lightsource in form of a yellow ball included that moved around the cube
and illuminated its surfaces. Unfortunately a regular CPC doesn't have this many
colors available and so the illumination looked very bad on a regular CPC.

The green screen version was a lot better since I had 26 different hues
available, but the color version was horrible. So once I got my CPC 6128+ I
enhanced the texture mapping with more colors and different textures.
Unfortunately only CPC Plus owners were able to see those, but with all those
CPC plus emulators nowadays everybody can take a look at this enhanced version.

In the first version the demo took quite a while before it revealed the true
nature. At first you just saw a vector cube that was rotating around the y-axis
and after some minutes and lots of text the vector surfaces were replaced by
textures.

I've changed this approach in the updated version, because I felt that I cannot
bore people again with so much fuss and talk over nothing. Also since I just
changed the textures and added the plus colors there wasn't really anything new
about this demo. So in the new version you'll see the "full monty" right from
the beginning.

For all those users who like to press keys during a presentation I've included a
user input mode. To get to it you have to press the "c" key so that the border
turns red. Then you can use the following keys:

key	function	
return	Start rotation of cube	
shift	Stop rotation of cube	
keypad enter	De/ activate light source	
del	Start/ Stop music	
cursor left	Move light source clockwise around the cube	
cursor right	Move light source counterclockwise around the cube	

Also there's a cheat part hidden in this demo. If you press the keys "M", "I",
"L", "K" and "O" at the same time you'll get to see a never before released demo
with some balls moving around the screen. Unfortunately I haven't been able to
start this cheat part on any Emulation (I've tried WinAPE, CPE, No$CPC,
Arnimedes and Arnold, but I have this cheat part as individual file
somewhere...).

The texture mapping is one of the few demos where I didn't just have a new
effect on the screen, but also a nice frame around it. Usually I don't create a
frame or surface around my demos, because I'm not really good with drawing
graphics (and fancy fonts).

For this demo I already had an idea for the general look long before I started
programming it. My brother had a submarine game on the Amiga that was based on
Jules Vernes book "20.000 leagues under the sea". The submarine in that game had
a very dignified look with mahagonay walls and leather covered couches and
armchairs.

I wanted to create a frame around my texture cube so that it appeared like you
were looking through a porthole into the sea and the rotating cube was floating
in the water. The porthole was supposed to be in a maghagonay wall with a
distinct wooden texture.

I spent some time looking for a wooden table, desk or shelf im my parents' house
that I could scan with my hand-scanner. But it turned out that none of that had
a surface that was rich enough in contrast to yield a good scan.

I was about to quit when I saw the fake wood veneer layer on my brothers desk. I
scanned it and it looked good enough to be converted to the CPC. I put parts of
the scanned picture above and beneath the porthole and voilá, the frame for my
texture cube was ready.

Sometimes you find the best ideas in strange places...


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