64 kb intro: Event Horizon

2001-12-08 00:02:48

Event Horizon

64 kb intro competition, DreamHack 2000 - Borlänge Sweden
Netilium's first released 64 kb intro!

Requirements for executability:

Pentium processor
Graphics card and drivers that can do 320x240 in 32 bit truecolor
A sound card with working drivers

Actual system requirements:

400 MHz CPU with >= 256 kb cache
100 MHz Front side bus

The story

About one month before Dreamhack we decided that we wanted to make an intro for the 64 kb compo. We had seen a lot of real-time raytracing intros lately and that's what we wanted to do too. With little or no knowledge of vector math and no good books about raytracing we started. We began to surf the net for docs and tutorials. After about one week of messing with cross products and view planes we had a working chessboard FD-plane. After that and a couple of rewrites things started to improve day by day with shading, reflections etc..

The intro is written in 100% ANSI C, no time for assembler optimization. (P3 SIMD optimization with 1x1 tracer in final version maybe ;)

Tools & Libraries used

Visual Studio 6.0(win32) / gcc(Linux)
minifmod 1.4
Compression by UPX