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dueal:

@malone5923 and @all. A Binary Space Partitioning(BSP) tree is a graphics data structure that divides a space into compact inter-linked chunks to form a data tree so as to provide efficient draw rates for a virtual world. That's about the simplest way to put it. Have u ever sat down to think of why game graphics hasn't gotten to the point where it looks exactly like u're playing an animated movie like Beowulf or Final Fantasy: the Spirit within?

Guess u have, and someone might have said it has to do with the processor speed. That's just the setback games have cause for a decent animation of the virtual world the computer has to calculate the bunch of code sequence that forms every other frame at a rate of 1/60th of a second or less. That's some work though and since processors have their limits game programmers started coming up with great ideas to make the processor have less work to do theirby giving it a little space to do the calculations that improve quality. They came up with Depth Buffers, Octrees, BSP's, Scene Graphs, Occluders e.t.c. All to reduce the amount of geometry that the processor (CPU & GPU) processes. There are other methods like View Frustrum culling, and some developers us Fog.

Now for your next question, how are shadows generated. It can be done the hard way or the easy way. Let me start with the easy way. Have u played the game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis on the Ps1? If u have try playing it again. U'll notice that the shadow for every character in the game is a simple circle projected at the feet of each character. Now the hard way. They are two that i know of that are used in games. One uses the stencil buffer of the graphics board and the other uses some generated texture as the game is playing. I totally understand and can explain the texture one. Here we take the lights direction to the object and draw a bitmap of the silhouette of the object as seen by the light. We then project that image onto the world also taking into consideration the lookAt direction of the camera. It a bit mathematical but less detailed than when the first stencil buffer method is used. U should download the Ogre3d graphics engine cause i'll be using that in discussion at some point here and it allows use of both methods.

Now for your 3rd question. The different genre of games are :
1. Action/arcade- Here the player is taken through a fast pacing game where he must advance by attacking unending obstacles to win. Games like ; Street of Rage on the mega drive/genesis and sonic the hedgehoge fall into this category.

2. Strategy: Here the speed and repetition of the players action is reduced as the player must plan he's empire so to speak before acting. They can be Turn based stratagy like the Metal Gear Acid on the PSP which give u for ever to decide a next line of action or they can be Real Time strategy like chess master.

3. Adventures : Here the player is give a world to play in but it ends when the whole story which the game is centered around ends.

4. Platforms: These are similar to the adventure type but it seems they are made a bit different cause the player must pick stuff like coins or coconuts and jump on platforms as they advance.

Keep playing and coding games. Later!

tiana85:

Ok, i'm really excited by all this.

@duel pls recommend a very good book dat i can use to learn gaming from scratch since deres no place i can learn here . I have very good knowledge of java, so i guess d book will have to be centred around java programming language. thanks

canuck:

The headline is sooooo wrong!

The title should read President Turai Seeks Second Term.

No be she dey rule all dis time? 

davidylan:

If this is what allah appointed Yar Adua for then Allah himself must be a disappointment.