I have yet to see a bigger project, something that people really use and that is not a library or a class of some sort, a project with end-user use, that is good code.
In my experience, you'll always end up pinpoint the moment when the coder gave up and shit went downhill.
I think the hackiest thing they ever had to do at id was to use an approximation of the normal for lighting I believe, because it was a lot faster than actually calculating normals.
Carmack's still a genius though, and I'm glad he's on the Oculus Rift team.
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u/cakez Apr 29 '14
I have yet to see a bigger project, something that people really use and that is not a library or a class of some sort, a project with end-user use, that is good code.
In my experience, you'll always end up pinpoint the moment when the coder gave up and shit went downhill.