Welcome to CHETLW page
[rus]
CHETLW is a simple 3-D engine. I take part in it's development (my responsibilities
are performance and light).
Hey programmers! Who would like to participate in this
project - e-mail me!
About this project (in Russian
and for russians only)
System requirements:
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Win95/NT, DirectX 3+, dinput required
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Pentium 166+ MMX (MMX support required, for non-MMX processors, see
older version)
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64 Mb RAM
Features available at this time:
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Very fast software rendering optimized for Pentium,...+ (no hardware rendering
support yet)
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Operating in 8-bit, 15-bit and 16-bit color modes
(8 bit mode is not currently supported)
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Gravitation
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Eye rotation up-down and inclination
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High quality colored and monochromatic lighting
(right now static)
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Advanced console
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Built-in level editor
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Importing of 3DS *.asc files
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Doors, lifts, etc. support
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Character motion is also available (while ugly-looking right now)
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Some other features (this description is not up-to-date right now).
See
Operation Description (I'm sorry, it's in Russian for now)
(in html)
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A lot of bugs
Notes:
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All features available only in hi-color (15 or 16-bit) modes
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8-bit mode is available only through recompilation (i.e. in different exe-file)
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Resolution is set up upon recompilation (here it is 640x400)
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All package files must be present to run correctly
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Set up lris only in aftlng.cfg
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All bitmaps are taken from wolf3d and quake
Operation description will be available
soon.
Most important console commands:
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vidres x y [refresh] - set working video resolution (not the rendering
resolution)
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qu[it]
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testlt - recalculate lighting
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home - set position to (0,0,0)
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help - some other commands (not all of them)
Most important variables:
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clip - clipping and gravitation (0=off, 1=on)
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debug :)
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dact - activate doors, lift and ugly-looking man
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lris - set drawing mode:
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0 - lighting enabled (if previous value was
3 or 7 - type testlt to see light)
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2,3 - lighting disabled
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4 - lighting enabled, background is filled
white (to see holes)
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6,7 - lighting disabled, background is filled
white (to see holes)
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other values: don't use (dangerous)
Keys:
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Arrows - motion
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A - head up
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Z - head down
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X - incline head left
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V - incline head right
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D - up (if clipping is 0)
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C - down (-||-)
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F12 - make screenshot to mrzmshot.bmp
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~ (tilde) - get console
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Esc, Enter - exit
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Alt+F4 - also exit
Download:
Older version of this page (including non-mmx version)
Latest package of CHETLW (without sound):
CHETLW in rar archive [519205 bytes]
CHETLW in rar sfx archive [537055 bytes]
Note that Netscape browser doesn't download
rar
files correctly unless .rar file type is properly registered
Lng.Hrc: CHETLW .lng files syntax hilighting for
Far's internal editor
Some screen shots
Links:
Graphicon'99 contest
Vasily Zotov's page about chetlw
