On: Doom, the Gallery Experience

[cyberax]

It doesn't. Doom uses BSP to precisely determine which columns of textures it needs to render.

It's faster than raycasting, so this was even used in Wolf3D port to GBA.

[eumenides1 → cyberax]

Yeah is fast and cheap because the BSP tree is created after the level mapped out. It's also why "Will it run DOOM?!" is a thing.

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