

Oki,

We started this thing at, hmm
I really don't remember. Basically
Sync were suppose to do something
but for some reason they didnt :(

Kombat:
The Invitation is coded in C++,
compiled with Watcom C 10.6,
and Turbo-Assembler I dont care
what version.

3D Engine is 'MOSHE' by Kombat
Coded for the Immotrals Assembly'97
demo, but, hey, we used it here 2.
Fast/Affine/Tiling-TextureMapper
+Clipper by Rage of Immortals also
coded for imr asm97 demo. Scenes
are about 2000-2700 polys each I
think I don't really remember.

Lots of thanks to Pascal (47 ?) for
his good example of a cache
optimized rotozoomer, ours wouldnt
have been that fast without his
help. Greeting are simple flares
with addative-drawing. We put in
motion-blur but it went too slow.

Silvatar: Even through I coded the
entire flare engine,it was no big
deal...just XZ rotations,and the
Flare positioning was not so 
different from the Text writing 
routine.The Sprite scaler was
relatively fast,(Kombat got it
optimized and then I optimized it
further...Kombat had ideas of going
on optimizing but we thought the
current one will do the job) and
the camera was always placed on
a Z which is slightly further
backwards than the negative 
absolute X of the flare with the
highest absolute X value (obvious).

Kombat:
2D Ripple by Kombat,
modified by Silvatar, then again
modified by Kombat ;)  

Silvatar: Well, Kombat wrote the
Ripple engine...and he asked me
to make it look wierd...(Hey,
the first line in the code was 
"Kombat sayz kick my ripple..")
so I came up with an odd idea of 
letting the distance table to
have influence over the angle 
table...Then Kombat did the 
same for a rotating ripple, and 
this is how it ended up.

Kombat:
I dont remember who wrote the 
credits scroller, but again who 
cares ;) Music player is Midas 
by Peretri Kangaslampi and 
Jarno Paananen.

Midas basically sux, but well, we
owe them the credit, we didn't
have time to put in IMS (indoor
music system). If you get the
intro to work, which is highly
unlikely, well, good for you,
but basically Midas sucks so
badly that this thing sure does
crash on many computers :(

Credits for Vesa2 unit goto
Vertigo (VGOVBE2), pretty basic
but then again just another one
of these things you never feel
like coding :) Fast-Text-
Scroller by Silvatar & Kombat,
Silvatar made the font system
and CREATED the font, Kombat
made it fast.

Silvatar: I copied Warcraft's font
by running it and setting up a
"abcde.." message and copying it
pixel-by-pixel Anyhows, it sort of
worked out (12 A4 papers full of
shit).

Kombat: Man is he phucked up! ;),
but hey the font looks good, and we
can make something called "Warcraft
3, the return of your GrandMother",
use his font, and sell it for like,
5 shekel i guess.

I dont feel like calling Oded
(Dark-Spirit) or Daniel (Thor) now,
cause, their working on sumthang,
so, Music is by Dark-Spirit of
TTOM/iMR,he wrote two versions of
the music, we all suffered from
the first one, so he wrote this
one which is good. Thor did 1
3d-scene, the Ritual'97 Logo,
grabbed a few textures from 3ds
and optimized all the palettes
together, I dont blame him cause
he was/is bussy. I (Kombat) did
the credits image, and the
second discusting scene that says
'ritual97, where else to go ?'
(I guess you could go to assembly
but I guess walking up to the
toilet would cost you less.)
Joining up of all this trash
was made at Kombat's house under
the harsh influence of an air-
conditioner, at 31/07/97. No Coke
was consumed during this period but
this is only due to the sad and
unfortunate fact we didn't have 
any ;(

Silvatar: Btw, the "Wave function"
mentioned in the Initializer is the
one that appears above and below
the Greetings.
Despite the simple
apperance of the function it was one
heck of a fat expression ->;)
F3=(float)I+3.0*sin((float)I/20.0*PI);
F4=(float)J+3.0*cos((float)J/20.0*PI);
*IdleTxtr++ = CList[(long)(32+31*sin(F3
/5.0+F4*atan(F3+F4/4.0)/2.0))];

It's my own invention (not that I'm
so damn proud of it!) Anyway,if
anyone modifies it to look somehow
better call me or Kombat...

Kombat: BTw, many groups came up
at the past few months, and were
not so familliar with them since,
well, they never did anything.
So, inorder not to offend such
groups, we took the complete list
of 'Known' Israeli groups from
CFX-Newz and put it in there.

Another important thing, YOU CAN
rip the shit out of this invtro,
we aren't gonna waste time on
shoving all these damn data-files
together and/or encrypting them, 
so go ahead and put your music,
scenes, text-files, and in Ritual
we can make a compo : "Who did
the best 'new' invtro", enjoy.

Just one more thing,
Come to Ritual, cause its gonna be
some bitching party, Yalla bye ;)

Silvatar: This is 3/8/97 22:47,and 
I'm sending Ver 1.00 to T3A...good
night.
