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I stumbled over this video when I went back to look at Fabien Sanglard's excellent Doom 3 code review article.

 

It may sound technical and filled with jargon at first but once you see the presenter show the process

with a crude marker drawing it gives you that much more visual insight about what is happening under the hood.

 

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014234/Excerpt-Quake-Postmortem-Optimizing-Level

 


http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014234/Excerpt-Quake-Postmortem-Optimizing-Level

 

I figured it would be good to leave as a reference here. I'll also update the wiki.

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I went through the visportal code some when I was looking up how sound is handled, when we were talking about that issue. It turned out to be a good idea just for understanding how they work and a lot of the lesser known bells and whistles going on.

 

I'd actually recommend it to any mapper, even if you're not a coding person, but just flipping through it and looking at some of the functions is educational.

What do you see when you turn out the light? I can't tell you but I know that it's mine.

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