I was just thinking.... Chaos Engine 3D.... :D Amiga enthusiasts would loose their minds xD

Not only a fantastic 3d engine, but now also a great graphics converter. Amazing, as always :D

Great work. Cant wait to see what the Amiga community will do with this engine. Your hard work is really appreciated.

I just feel like if this game was released in '93-'95 this would have prevented from people upgrading just for doom for the most part. Amazing work!

Your tenacity in fixing what is in the scheme of thing quite minor, is much appreciated. And while I can run Doom on my accelerated A1200, I look forward to seeing what you can do with this, as it ultimately shows what was possible with an Amiga (from 1985) and some clever programming.

Great to see an update so soon and see the progress. Amazing work.

You are awesome! Amiga enthusiasts like you make the Amiga live on and on. It is incredible work - or even more, it's art! Please keep on finishing that project. And give all Amiga (Retro) Lovers a possibility of reminescence of the good ol' days.

If I good remember the game Elfmania on Amiga did use some special technic (code) to increase the quality of colors.

I love seeing how you optimise everything in your engine, it's truly incredible. I think at this point the thing that will enhance the look the most will be to adjust your game palette. I believe there are a few colours that are too similar to each other, and not enough variety. Considering all the graphics are dithered and you have enough grey scales I think the greyish-green colours can be made a little more vibrant, and you need a pink colour in there somewhere which will make the hands look so much better. I have an old video on my channel of Doom running on my Workbench screen in a window. The Workbench is running in 1280x720 in 16 colours, using Rebel's optimised palette (which uses OCS values). Please look at how good it looks, and it has no dithering or other optimisations for running in low colour. I think you should have a good look at Rebel's palette (it's become a favourite in the Amiga community now and is included in Classic Workbench) and see if you can adjust your palette to give it a little more useful colour based on his hard work (which he explained once and I was amazed how many variables and calculations he did to arrive at this palette).

Fantastic work! I've been hanging out for an update for a while now. It would have been exciting to see this on the pages of CU Amiga or The One Amiga in the early 90s.

This is awesome! I'm always longing for a status update! The video really help us understand the backbone of the technology. Just let me know if you ever need help with graphics. I really believe that with custom graphics as well as custom palettes this game would look truly remarkable, even with the low color count. The biggest issue right now for me is the harshness in colors as well as the very gray gradients. it's not a very flexible palette. At the same time I understand the limitation of using Freedoom sprites and assets. If the art was built ground up for the engine together with added sprites, Amiga users would be in for a real visual treat. :D

Great work KK, looking forward to more updates.

I'm not an Amiga guy, but this is impressive. Do you intend to make bespoke art assets to give this game more of an identity of its own, or is the focus more to make an homage game of sorts?

Squeezing every inch you can out of this hardware is something a lot of younger gamers just aren't going to know how to appreciate.

Great video!

Fantastic! Can't wait to see more!

I really love your job you're doing with this!

amazing as always :)

Amazing work.

Love it :) So great you got rid of the stripes on the weapons. Also cool to see other weapons that looks great. Any chance for a playable demo this year?

One thing that I especially like about this project is that it gives me hope that one day, when my kids are old enough to entertain themselves and I have some time to call my own, I can revisit my own old Amiga projects. One of which eas also a 2.5D game engine. Mine was intended for RTG though and more an experiment in how far 2.5D could be messed around with.

Mindblowing!! Liked and subbed

Just... WOW

AMAZING !! WORK !

Looks nice!

Been watching the video more closely and I don't know if I like the green, yellow hand? It kind of make me feel like an alien ;) It was better before even with the dithering if I had to choose.

Amazing!

Keep up the great work.

how well does this run on an a1200?

Could I offer a simpler solution to the pistol and shotgun hand dithering problem? Make the character wear black gloves. I mean, a good pair of murder gloves is essential for the more sophisticated slayer. Your palette seems to have ample shades of grey to pull it off.

Pretty awesome

Waiting impatiently for your next video. The explanation "the 3d engine always works on 2x2 pixel blocks which immediatly makes the rendering four times faster" was what I wanted to know. I hope there'll be a real game at the end of all this because otherwise it'll be very frustrating. :p Anyway, as the center of the screen is what is most important, couldn't it be in 1x1 pixel blocks ? Like, a small square of 80x60 pixels would be more precise and for exemple, the extreme borders of the screen would be 3x3 in order to balance and not lose fps ? I suppose it would be too visible and might be detrimental to the general feel, but I'd be curious to see it. Or maybe, the screen resolution cannot be split that way.

imagine this game in 4k

Amazing job, but your voice almost made me sleep! You are definitely better than warm milk. ;)

Totally incredible!!! But would it be possible to use a 15 color hardware sprite for the hand? Or would that introduce also a slowdown, just as if using 32 color screen?

Is not using a 32 color screen a speed issue or amount of chip ram issue on a stock A500?

Czemu by nie zrobić tak że w kolejnej kopiowaniej linii, pary subpikseli były by odwrócone kolejnością? Wtedy nie było by pionowych kresek. Czy dla tego że to za duże zadanie dla koprocesora?

The screen space hitscan is an interesting idea. How do you identify which pixels belong to which damageable entity? Or is it more a test against the clipping rectangles they were drawn into? And is it really much faster than a ray plane intersection calculation for a handful of rays?

I can't find the final video of this project. Did you eventually released it?

This is really amazing work :D Could I steel some seconds of your video? I wan't to start a new series called "retro computer news" to make a summery of whats going on in the computer world for people who don't follow everything closely. Also from what I understand, you are creating an engine that you will eventually release for everyone to use and create games? Will they need to pay a license? And will it be easy to make games based on this engine that will benefit faster Amigas?

Great stuff, of course. So, will this feature auto-targeting for enemies on different levels, as Doom does, or will you have mouselook, or neither?

Is this using chunky to planar? Or is the CPU directly drawing each pixel to 5 separate bitplanes in memory? You mentioned elsewhere that each pixel is written with a single MOVE instruction, so I'm guessing C2P, but that would be very expensive?!?

Your engine is perfect for Wipeout2022 A500 clone. Can you make some fast tunnel with this code

Either your palette needs a skin tone or you need to repaint the hand entirely. There's no reason why your guy can't wear gloves. Solves your color problem.

Make a sample exe, run it on real Amiga 500. Just to make sure the UAE gives the right fps numbers

I thought it was "FreeDooM"