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I don't think this idea can really work. Quake engines are designed around the concept of the server having the definitive game state, and the clients being mere "viewers" of a particular subset of the game state. If you want better physics, then it needs to be done in the server code (SSQ...

Also program code is stored in write-protected memory areas on modern OSes -- trying to memcpy Think2 over Think1 is going to cause a general protection fault or segmentation violation. Unless you absolutely need to create executable code yourself -- don't do it. You will need OS-specific code to al...

Spike, with your single-connection approach, do you (for example) SV_WriteEntitiesToClient independently for each player, or optimise the network traffic by sending each entity only once (i.e. if it touches the PVS of either player) ? P.S. there is a Quake 3 port with splitscreen capability, be inte...

There's some discussion on DoomWorld forums about your editor, here: http://www.doomworld.com/vb/showthread.php?postid=1152391 I think it would be great if TrenchBroom could read the textures directly out of the PAK files of the game, especially for people not used to quake editing. I have written c...

For releases you should provide a source zip -- downloading 64MB of git repository is a pain compared with a 10MB (pure guess) source package. Anyway, congratulations on your 1.0 release, I can see a lot of work has gone into this program. I personally work on a cross-platform editor for a similarly...

I'm learning more about how QCC works, and I just noticed that OP_LOAD_FLD and OP_STOREP_FLD instructions are never generated when compiling the standard game code. Can they actually be used in valid qc code? Or was it some unfinished feature (my guess would be an ability to pass field names as para...

interesting find.

Maybe they tried it and it just looked crap.

QC doesn't have datatypes. It has entities. It has floats. It has strings. It has vectors. It has fields. It has functions. And that's it. I know all that. I'm talking about a nice little QC library to handle lists: entity() list_create = ... entity(entity L) list_head = ... entity(entity L) list_t...

Has nobody ever made a decent QC implementation of a list datatype?

OBLIGE is a random level generator for some classic FPS games, including Quake and Quake II. I have just released version 4.28 -- the most notable feature of this release is support for Quake II, and much better support for Quake (e.g. proper lighting, adequate vis, no more collision issues). Despit...

4) 256 vertices max? ouch! You misunderstood what Spike was saying. In MD2 format, vertex precision is low. It is like there is a 3D grid, and the grid only has 256 points on each axis (256x256x256 points in total), and vertexes can only exist at these grid points. You can definitely use more than ...

Very quick and dirty way:

In each function (R_DrawSurfaceBlock_mip0..3) there are two 'and' instructions: Change $0xFFFFF to $0x0

I run this function through W_WeaponFrame(); in weapons.qc so that it runs all the time, and I do that with a lot of other functions that require constant "monitoring". Is that bad to do? Or should it go in player pre or post think or something? W_WeaponFrame is called from PlayerPostThin...

4: md2 has no size limits, but does only have 8-bit precision with arbitary scale. This means that you can have a model 100 miles wide, but you'll only have 256 different points that you can put a vertex. the scale is per-frame, which results in vertex swiming. Well surely a good exporter would hav...

taniwha wrote:How do non-solid skies work, anyway? I've never understood that.

I didn't think it was possible with standard Quake -- hitscans and projectiles use the rendering hull for collision detection but there is still a polygon there with the sky texture on it.