Info File

Author:   George Ziniewicz
Email:    zin1@home.com    zin@zintel.com
Homepage: http://www.zintel.com/

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Name: FlockZ

Description:  A simulation of birds flying in a watery canyon.
   They flap as necessary, with fluttering wings giving lift on the downstroke.
   They change orientation as a function of movement.

   Includes:
     * closing 2D splinter-screen effect, w/ 1023 variations (shrink, rotate, move, accelerate, strips)
         (Toggle key "x" [EXplode] to demo the effect, try w/ HyperSpace!)
     * preference save/load of ~30 params (throw away pref file to reset)

   Press ? for a help screen, or right-click for popup menus.
   Notably:   1-9,0 - set # of Birds * 100, 0=1000
     <PageUp/Down> - Adjust Flap Speed
                 x - eXplode Screen Toggle (try with HyperSpace!)

   Motion control:
                 v - ViewCam Toggle: Auto/Manual/Hold
   Manual ViewCam:
        <MouseX/Y> - MouseLook
      <Left Click> - Move Forward
     <MiddleClick> - Slow Down
          <Arrows> - Move X/Z
    <ALT>+<Arrows> - Move X/Y (when you want lift)

   Thrust and mouse sensitivity can be adjusted via a popup slider (<RightClick>-Options).


   It runs about 170 fps on my hp 1 gig athlon w/ GeForce2 Ultra, running Win98.
      (to compare: press keys "rc"  for reset + clockToggle)


soar,
zin

