Great! it works!

Also did you check if you get a slow down if when in 50% resolution (160x120) or even 25% (80x60) you scale the screen up by 2x or 4x?

(mockups below):

Aaah ok. It's up to you I guess. I assumed filling 16 pixels with the same thing wouldn't take much processing power compared to calculting the raycasting for each 16 pixels but I was not sure

Try the new CAS version attached.

my worry was if you can walk on multiple floors/jump on them, it would get very confusing with the entire floor being a plain color, right? I mean when looking towards a pit, you wouldn't be able to distinguish the bottom floor from the top one

aaah ok thanks for info, I'll try this update soon!


EDIT: GAH at Notepad not opening Linux and Mac readmes properly , I hate having to right-click, open with wordpad all the time. Oh well

Btw there's a huge speed increase in lower quality mode and the quality drop isn't too bad. Nice

^I opened this thread, and my jaw dropped until I realized that screenshot wasn't from the TI-Nspire raycaster.

While it does take a bit of calculations for filling a space with a solid color, it's still much faster than a floor texture due to the fact that you're only calculating the size of the space to be filled and setting those pixels to a color, rather than finding the pixel in the texture for each pixel on the floor, then drawing the corresponding color of the texture to that pixel.

A solid color still requires extra calculations in the engine versus no floor, but it's a better alternative than a textured floor on a platform like this. A creative client programmer can make the resulting game look just as good as with floor textures, by compensating for the less complex image by using more interesting wall textures and more sprite objects in the level to suggest themes for rooms and areas. Plus having a background image will add to the illusion that you are inside, making the space seem larger than it actually is.

Also if the background image scrolls with the player's rotations, the rotation of the walls around the camera will look more realistic.

Also if the background image scrolls with the player's rotations, the rotation of the walls around the camera will look more realistic.

One thing to make sure is that it also scrolls at a reasonable speed, too. In the past, I saw calc 3D engines where the background scrolled twice slower than you turned around, or at the same speed as far away walls when rotating. It doesn't look much realistic. The background should probably scroll at 1.5x or twice the speed at least