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by Knightmare
Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:10 am
Forum: Mapping
Topic: Water - lighting - transparency
Replies: 18
Views: 28003

Re: Water - lighting - transparency

If you intend to modify the engine (hardware accelerated) but not the map tools, you can do vertex lighting. This still requires subdivision of water faces to have enough vertices for it to look right. Quake2Max did this first I believe, and KMQuake2 has improved on it. There will be differences ...
by Knightmare
Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:23 am
Forum: General Programming
Topic: Xash 3D[engine]
Replies: 30
Views: 13967

Re: Xash 3D[engine]

This engine sounds almost like GOLK all over again.

As a side point, if the HL SDK's EULA prohibits mod makers from releasing their source, then why has Spirit of Half-Life (http://www.moddb.com/mods/spirit-of-half-life) had its source available for several years? Are they in violation?
by Knightmare
Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:34 am
Forum: OpenGL Programming
Topic: [quake2] overbright models
Replies: 18
Views: 31868

Re: [quake2] overbright models

Overbrights is a bit of misnomer for this, as it's actually RGB scaling. I later renamed this option from Vic's code. Real overbright bits are used in the Quake3 engine, you can see this in the Q3 and RtCW sources. It actually involves bit shifting of the color values in textures and lightmaps ...