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Polyobject
A polyobject is a movable convex group of one-sided linedefs. This extension of the Doom engine was originally implemented in Hexen by programmer Ben Gokey of Raven Software. They were added to the game engine in order to give Raven's mappers a much more vast palette of doors, machinery, crushing traps, and secret push walls than was previously achievable, somewhat closing the gap with more modern engines.
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