DirectQ II

[leileilol]

Just tried that Quake2 engine from mh.


gl_monolightmap 1 + gl_texturemode NEAREST_MIPMAP_NEAREST = <3


yeah I know RL has you at 100% now, but i'm just dropping a thread of encouragement. Because, it's NOW the only Q2 port I play!


The only thing I could ask for is mouse acceleration fixed (i.e. -noforcemparms) and the loading bug fixed (when you load, it still processes the game, so saving in front of a projectile is...... a bit bad)
It even properly works with the dummied out disruptor in the Ground Zero expansion!

Happy new year!

[mh]

It actually uses raw input for mouse input so - in theory - there should be no acceleration at all.

[leileilol]

Strange, because sensitivity 9 felt very accelerated...

[Spirit]

My acceleration check is aiming at some distinct feature in-game, put my thumb pressing next to the mouse on the table, slowly move the mouse to the right for a few centimeters, then quickly move it back, stopping at the thumb. If it overshoots -> accelerated mouse.

[mh]

Strange, because sensitivity 9 felt very accelerated...

Mmmm, that's why I said "in theory".

Personally I've noticed some mouse drivers that apply acceleration even to raw input - the driver presumably must be running it's own acceleration formula before it passes the mouse movement on to the OS. If so, that's quite an evil thing for a mouse driver to do, but oh well.

[revelator]

Razer mouse perchance got one myself and it does indeed have some accelleration features.

[JasonX]

Where I can find the source of this engine?

[mh]

I don't even have that source any more myself.

[JasonX]

What a sad day for Q2.

[ericw]

I found a copy of DirectQII 2012-11-29 including source:
http://hendricks266.duke4.net/stuff/Dir ... -11-29.zip

(MH: hope you don't mind me linking this )

[mh]

Not a problem, link away - it was GPL, after all.

[revelator]

Guess the guy you linked to did not like it, its now dead lol.

[mh]

Still live here, but because it's never any harm: http://www.quaketastic.com/files/tools/ ... -12-21.zip

[frag.machine]

Guess the guy you linked to did not like it, its now dead lol.

Are you sure ? Just clicked the link and downloaded normally here.
Anyway we should consider to create a public GitHub repository and replicate all this stuff there, just for historical reasons. I myself lost my engine sources and only managed to recover the last release.

[mh]

Anyway we should consider to create a public GitHub repository and replicate all this stuff there, just for historical reasons. I myself lost my engine sources and only managed to recover the last release.

That's a bloody good idea. While it's certainly the case that stuff I wrote years ago is not necessarily something Id like to actively support ever again, having it available is not something I'd object to.