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GAUGE^3D - the Grand Unified 3D Game Engine
Copyright (C) 2000 Kenton Varda
Home page: <http://www.gauge3d.org>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
MA 02111-1307, USA

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GAUGE^3D v0.1.3

  See the file "INSTALL" for instructions on compiling and running GAUGE.

  GAUGE includes a few test programs, wich are described below.  Also,
make sure to check out the "games" directory, which contains some silly
little games which run on GAUGE (just one at the moment - Asteroids).

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gaugelogo
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This is just a silly program that displays the 3D version of the GAUGE^3D
logo.  The logo was created by me (Kenton Varda) in 3D Studio Max.  In
order to run it, gcube.gmdl must be present in the current directory. You
can get it from either of the following URL's:

<http://www.gauge3d.org/gcube.gmdl.zip>
<http://www.gauge3d.org/gcube.gmdl.gz>

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gauge3dfe
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This is a sort of general testing program for GAUGE's graphics systems.
When running the program, you can use the number pad to rotate the model
and page up/down to change the geometric level of detail.  Note that only
spheres currently have dynamically changeable detail.

gauge3dfe has a number of command-line switches which allow you to load
model and image files and display them in various ways.  To get a list of
options, type "gauge3dfe -h" at the command prompt.

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gauge3dbe
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This is a test program for GAUGE's back-end (non-graphical) systems.
There really isn't anything interesting to see here, and it is not very
hard to crash the thing.  The only really useful thing you can do with
this program is convert 3ds models into gmdl models.

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-Kenton Varda
 <temporal@gauge3d.org>

