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revelator wrote:infinite farclip.

With protocol 15/666 limits of +/- 4096, you can set farclip to 14189 and it's effectively infinite so far as Quake is concerned.

Please drop that "normal mapping" too; it's deeply embarrasing.

Not a problem.

I don't think you're going to see improvements with a clean Fitz because that's already very significantly CPU-bound elsewhere.

frag.machine wrote:Does this have any influence on the PVS calculation and/or network traffic ?

Not a thing, but...

Single player games have servers too. A CPU load reduction on a 600 monster meat-grinder is anything but "simple".

Areanodes are used by the Quake engine for entity interaction and collision detection. They are a server-side optimization to prevent each entity having to be tested against every other entity. Instead the map is partitioned into "areas", entities are placed into these areas, and only enti...

I believe that compiled vertex arrays existed purely as an optimization for software T&L cards doing multipass rendering. The idea is that by locking the arrays you tell your driver that you're not going to be modifying them until you unlock; at that point the driver can run vertex transforms, o...

It's just applying an emboss effect to the raw texture data, nothing spectacular. Something I did back in 2001 or 2002 and am now slightly embarrassed about having my name attached to. Looks quite crap. I wouldn't bother. Regarding texture loading, OpenGL allows you to specify a texture with width, ...

I believe that the only reason this exists is for Voodoo 2 cards. The 1st generation of these had something like 4MB framebuffer and 2MB per texture unit; texture swapping would have been the norm and I suspect that this was done to ensure that lightmaps always stayed on GL_TEXTURE1 and therefore w...

What a fascinating re-read. One note: my test map seems to give trouble in RMQe and DirectQ. As soon as you touch the bridge you sink in and get stuck. I know those aren't maintained, but this might be a useful debug test case if you're still using the same collision code in your research engine, mh...

...does an ok job for a console debugger, but i can understand why it might be hard on a windows programmer to use it... It's not a matter of GUI vs console. It's a matter of functionality, integration into the code/build/test workflow, and whether or not the tool helps me to be productive. Regardi...

Ha, ha, yes, it's just that good tools are important and a really good debugger is the most important of all so far as I'm concerned. I can't even begin to tell you the number of times Visual Studio's debugger has been genuinely helpful to me. Not just in debugging, but also in design - single-stepp...

The wrapper code does use some D3DX calls but it dynamically links (using LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress) to the highest numbered D3DX DLL on the client system so that it should be reasonably well immune to Microsoft's versioning game of musical chairs. Likewise with D3DCompiler. I've no idea how any of...

I suggest disabling mipmap filtering, to achieve a more sharp look on distance. nnoooo! if you disable mipmap filtering, you end up with everything using mip0 everywhere. when combined with even quakes texture resolution, this results in a whole boatload of noise. flickering glitchy noise that vaug...

Darkplaces convention should work for DirectQ but it's been so long that I can't recall specifics (I no longer even have the source code to check). What I can recall is that I definitely used the Darkplaces naming convention, because the other naming convention breaks on s_light (ID1 has both s_ligh...

sven coop was released with a custom engine and still uses valve bsp. Doesn't matter, it's still illegal and Valve can C&D it if they wish. To be specific, the HL tools come with an EULA that forbids them to be used for generating content for any game other than HL. Just because one mod broke t...

Properly unlocked framerate, with network transmission properly decoupled from screen refresh updates.