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by Lerc 12 days ago
I think it's worth noting that you can tilt with this method, but not roll.

Great for a helicopter game, Less so for general flight sim.

That was a large part of how games were designed back in the day. Start with what you have the ability to do, find the game that matches what you can do.

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Notice the demo video from Comanche also shows roll.

Edit: To support roll, the renderer essentially rendered the voxel terrain into a frame buffer and then applied camera transformations that gave the appearance of a fully rotating viewpoint. The terrain itself was not being raycast through a true 3D voxel volume.