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  2. Skybox (video games) - Wikipedia

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    A skybox is a method of creating backgrounds to make a video game level appear larger than it really is. [1] When a skybox is used, the level is enclosed in a cuboid.The sky, distant mountains, distant buildings, and other unreachable objects are projected onto the cube's faces (using a technique called cube mapping), thus creating the illusion of distant three-dimensional surroundings.

  3. List of PC games (A) - Wikipedia

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    The following list of PC games contains an alphabetized and segmented table of video games that are playable on the PC, but not necessarily exclusively on the PC. It includes games for multiple PC operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, DOS, Unix and OS X.

  4. Dark Engine - Wikipedia

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    DromEd 2. DromEd is the level editor for the Dark Engine. It was originally used in the design of Thief: The Dark Project, but after a petition from the fan community it was released to the public, as were later versions.

  5. 2.5D - Wikipedia

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    2.5D (basic pronunciation two-and-a-half dimensional) perspective refers to gameplay or movement in a video game or virtual reality environment that is restricted to a two-dimensional (2D) plane with little to no access to a third dimension in a space that otherwise appears to be three-dimensional and is often simulated and rendered in a 3D digital environment.

  6. Cube mapping - Wikipedia

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    Example of a texture that can be mapped to the faces of a cubic skybox, with faces labelled. Perhaps the most advanced application of cube mapping is to create pre-rendered panoramic sky images which are then rendered by the graphical engine as faces of a cube at practically infinite distance with the view point located in the center of the cube.

  7. Terra Invicta - Wikipedia

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    The base game of Terra Invicta is set after September 30, 2022, when an alien spacecraft crash-lands on Earth. More spacecraft are detected to be approaching Earth from the Kuiper belt with hostile intent, part of an alien species that lost their homeworld to a powerful alien empire and now seek to neuter similar highly-developed intelligent species that could pose a threat, such as humanity ...

  8. Skybox - Wikipedia

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    Skybox (sports), a type of private luxury seating area in sports stadiums; Skybox (video games), a construct used in 3D graphics to simulate skies; Skybox Imaging, a satellite operator; SkyBox International, a trading card company; SkyBox Labs, video game developer; Sky box or Digibox, a set-top box provided by Sky UK; Skybox, a song from Wunna

  9. Facing Worlds - Wikipedia

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    Facing Worlds was created by Fiorentino as a test of the Unreal Engine's capabilities. According to Fiorentino, typical Unreal Tournament maps had a limit of 160 polygons visible at the same time, which were split evenly between the landscape and map structures.