Quake 3 Source Code Released

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  I think the first one was in quake 2 also, but without the comment : fluffy64
  • Old thread about it over at gamedev.net http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=13995... : d3tached
• haha, comments like that are excellent : sikander

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• He shouldn't have any problem. I think quake3 was written in VC 5.0. : Coriolis
• http://www.quakesrc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5405 : yqbd

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  Isnt GtkRadiant just like Q3Radiant but ported to Win, Linux and Mac? The way I remember it GtkRadiant... : nosseman
  • Yes, for the sake of Linux and Mac, GTK had a GUI that only a programmer could love. On the plus side the... : Casey

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  No, we don't. You might be confusing game source code with engine source code. : gl2 drivers
  • First person to combine the two wins! : mill

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  Yeah, according to Carmack, DOOM 3 was the first C++ game id's ever done. : Schnapple
  • Yeah, get the D3 SDK. Reading those lines will underline Carmacks statement. : Grapenthin
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  is it written in C ? o_O : lord cecil
  • yeah : Schnapple
  • yep. and the entire game compiles in like 1minute. damn i wish c++ programs compiled that fast :( : Rapsey
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  They've been doing this for a while. You have to remmember that ANSI/ISO c++ only was standardized in 19... : fluffy64
  • by "doing this" i mean using c : fluffy64
  • Not to degrade, but Quake 3 was released December 1999. Also I don't think it has as much to do with e... : Schnapple
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    C++ compilers are very good these days. However, well-written C++ code will still tend to be slower than... : Coriolis
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      Well alot of times if you try to keep things in a clear-to-read object-oriented style, you have to often ... : fluffy64
      • C++ != OOP; OOP is just a programming approach. You can write good object oriented code in straightforwa... : Coriolis

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  I'm expecting stencil shadows and extensive procedural bump mapping all over the place within about.. ooh... : Toraz Chryx
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    Doesn't Q3 already have stencil shadows? You just have to enable them. : SiW73
    • r_stencilbits 8 vid_restart cg_shadows 2 : SiW73
    • Yeah: r_stencilbits 8, vid_restart, cg_shadows 2 to undo set cg_shadows back to 1. : dawurz
    • It has a kind of direct projection stencil shadow hack thing, it doesn't even qualify as the z-pass stenc... : gl2 drivers
    • not in the way Doom 3 does. : Toraz Chryx
• Hell YA! More gore for me please. : dawurz
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  repost because i can can can 'Suggested' list of improvements for home hackers: - implementation of mon... : johnsto
  • dude, just go get the source for the build engine. "Direction bitmaps" WTF sprites? : drabid
  • Pff, they just need to hardcode a version of Dust into the engine. : sgtsanity
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    lol i have no idea what most of those are. :P : virus
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      turning it into the doom1 engine i think : alexthegreat2
      • Ohh I get it now. LoL : askedrelic
  • I'd like to apologize to you for the people who didn't get your joke :| : maddy
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10559295 : Cygnus X-1
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  I hope someone makes a full on nudity sex game and sends it to jack thompson : snowwolf
  • I hereby declare everything in the q3asm directory to be hawt. : tacocat
• my first thought was "Solaris X86/SPARC server port" (as useless as that seems), and I found this blog en : the archvile

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• true... and I suggest people check out http://quakedev.com/ and see what people have already done with th... : dumptruck
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  Just curious, and I in no way mean to be an ass about this, but you and a number of other people I've se... : LeapingFool
  • iD is how Apple would spell it. : h0mew0rld
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    Because we're unable to connect the name to Freud. : sgtsanity
    • Would you be one of those who also pronounce their name like "eye-dee"? :) : LeapingFool
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    I think their old logo was iD : alexthegreat2
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      As far as I have seen, it has never been "iD." If you look at the Commander Keen games and Wolfenstein 3D... : LeapingFool
      • correct, they have NEVER been iD. it bugs the hell out of me when so many people write it like that. so u... : boobie
      • Yeah but it kinda looked like iD. So some people always capitalized it that way. Plus id keeps it in ... : Schnapple
  • some ppl think it looks like a typo if you don't do something to it. : dumptruck

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• well of course. source code is nothing but text files. Text files compress quite nicely. : Rapsey
• Actually, hype took up the remaining bytes. : ornee

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  is this the comment that makes every other comment seem smart? : shack_konto
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    Burn! : Johnny Law
    • Is the the burn that really feels hot? : tomwiththeweather
• is this the comment that makes you come out from under the bridge? : X-GOUKI
• go back to lurking plzkthx. : virus
• ProdigyXL BUSTED : Jago
• not if you suck. : Pneum0
• LOL; never mind the putzes scoffing. : ornee

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• Don't know for sure but I do know a few early Q3 engine games allowed this so I imagine it would work. Ve : xenoeye
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  Yes you can... Only when you play online does id verify your CD key on their master server.. Actually, id... : RogeR1
  • Actually. does this source code have the cd checking code in there? Do they change that from game to game... : Schnapple
• CD checking I believe was taken out with the last point release. so you can install it on multiple pc's ... : Jaxle

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  You mean Abrash's software renderer? http://www.radgametools.com/pixomain.htm : Carnivac
  • renderer rasterizer : Carnivac
  • Nope, I'd like to see that too but I mean the original Unreal/UT rasterizer written by Tim Sweeney. : gl2 drivers
• Tim Sweeney is a big wuss for not release his code like teh Carmack. : shacktool

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• I thought it was usually five years. IIRC they usually wait until all the big licensees have released th... : the archvile
• According to Carmack's blog some company licensed the engine so it would have been unfair to release it u... : freshyk
• They were planning on releasing it much earlier, but then a company licensed out the engine with actual m... : Chris Remo
• I think he wanted to release it 1-1.5 years ago but one company got a licence for 10.000$ and he said tha... : nosseman
• I believe John Carmack mentioned in his blog that the Q3 Source was delayed because of a high profile lic... : NoCopy

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  Team Arena and Quake 3 code was merged in the first patch after the expansion came out, so yes, that code... : jet-poop
  • does this mean, its easy to make a mod now, with the TA weappons playable in q3 ? : siobahn

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• Oh JC, you are so naughty! : aavenr
• alternate spank inferno. : the archvile

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• haha sweet! : techx4
• /nostalgia : thesubtlesnake
• hahah it actually works here. : Turd Ferguson

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  Is that from one of the license files? : Grapenthin
  • Looks like it's in just about every .h and .c that has GPL info. : tacocat
• When copy and paste goes bad? : gl2 drivers