Raven's Rick Johnson updated his .plan with a clarification of a misprint in the current issue of PCGamer:

There's an article in the October 1999 issue of PC Gamer about SoF with a very bad typo: "Vertex compression allows us to use more animations and model variety and still run on a machine with 32MB of RAM. Also, since the compression is high quality, there's 'swimming' visible on the models, even when very close."

That should read "Also, since the compression is high quality, there's NO 'swimming' visible on the models, even when very close."