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Creating a Doom-style 3D engine in C

Bisqwit · 990.7K views · 2015-01-19 · 18:50

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Overview

Bisqwit builds a Doom or Duke Nukem 3D style software-rendered 3D engine in C from scratch, supporting non-Euclidean geometry. It covers vector rotation and portal rendering with sped-up, tool-assisted coding.

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A favorite on Ask HN lists of programming YouTube channels, praised for mind-blowing systems and graphics programming and a watchable coding style.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2015–2019

Topics

Computer graphics & renderingGame programming & enginesC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages
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petercooper · 2019-01 · Strong recommendation

Agreed. My favourite programming YouTuber by a long stretch. If anyone is unfamiliar with him and wants to watch some of the "classics" I'd recommend these: His "cracking videogame passwords" series: [LINK] Creating a Doom-style 3D engine in C: [VIDEO] Creating a Rogue-like game in C++11: [LINK] Creating a PIC16 emulator and NES music player: [LINK] Creating a NES emulator: [LINK] Creating a DOS VGA raytracer: [LINK]

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iwakura · 2018-01 · Strong recommendation

Bisqwit's video focusing on systems and graphics programming are total gems. [LINK] Not particularly useful for web developers which is what most programmers are nowdays, they will still blow your mind though. [VIDEO]

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petercooper · 2016-10 · Strong recommendation

[LINK] is by far my favorite and I've spent many hours watching him. He does things like create a Doom-style engine from scratch: [VIDEO] .. create a NES emulator: [LINK] .. work back from a C++17 example to show why new C++ standards are needed: [LINK] .. and even building a Tetris clone in GW-BASIC: [LINK] .. Right now, he's doing a series on cracking 80s videogame passwords: [LINK] Sirajology - [LINK] - is another interesting one. He moves a bit too quickly for me, but does things like explain machine learning in 5 minutes or how to generate music with systems like Tensorflow.

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