- eraseme
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bungie has proven that a bunch of monkeys sitting in front of keyboards can randomly type out a masterpiece. the thing is, when you go to play the masterpiece, you cant help but notice all the monkey s**t smeared all over it.
it gets real old having to wait months for someone like mlg to clean off all the monkey poo.
Posted by: Vip3R Wes 612
Ahh i always wonderd this...how do engines work?
imagine you want to draw a line on a screen. you could tell the computer to draw a pixel at x,y, another at x,y+1, and another at x,y+2, x, y+3 on and on until you have your line. the next time you need a line, you do the same thing, and start typing out the points one by one. this is time consuming and sucks.
the easier thing to do is write a small program that draws the line for you. anytime you need that line drawn, just call up your mini program, and feed it 2 coordinates. bam, problem solved.
now scale it up so you have thousands of mini programs that are drawing entire characters, deciding how light should reflect, and how polygons should interact. that is a game engine. its basically what the other guy said: a way of organizing everything and making things a whole lot simpler to work with.