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• Transloquake (Q1)
• FreezeTag (Q3)
• Ricochet (HL1)

This is something that i've been always curious, but never really understood in Q1: how does collision really work? Is it related to the BSP format? Isn't it easier, today, to just calculate the bounding box of all models (grunts, player, dogs, etc.) and detect if they are colliding with the BSP geo...

I would definitely take some classes! Where do you live? Have you considered setting up a patreon for your engine work? Most of the guys here would love to support you.

You're a living encyclopaedia, Spike. Thanks!

I'm implementing IQM and skeletal animation support. Somewhat works... but now i want to experiment with blending, otherwise, IQM would be useless.

I was wondering how nice would it be to have a project like ScratchQC, but aimed at CSQC features and modern engines. Specially when dealing with MP stuff, like vweaps. Any guru up to it?

Does anyone know the original modelling program used by the artists in Q1? What about the painting program?

Is there any documentation on the VWEAP support in DP?

Even though the way Q3 handles animation blending is elegant, it requires a much more complex art pipeline, forcing artists to think in separate body parts. I'm thinking about starting a simple test in QuakeSpasm and implement animation blending in multiplayer: running and shooting, for example, wit...

I'm writing a small MDL viewier/editor and i'm interested in knowing more details about the format. Any links? Basically, i'm using QT to recreate what QME does, in a more modern and cross-platform framework. For fun, obviously.

Would it be possible to write some entity pooling on QuakeC code? Or this has to be something on the engine side? Would it help to just remanage entities, instead of destroying/instancing them? Also, i plan to use very low-poly game models (< 500 polys), both for enemies and other data... would this...

Darkplaces seemed like a good choice, but it's framerate drops with about 100 monsters at the screen. Is there a good engine for handling lot's of enemies? FitzQuake in software mode, maybe?

So, i've been thinking about removing the old quake ui code entirely and replacing it with something like imgui . I'm planning to do this on top of Darkplaces, since it seems to be a more modern base for experimenting with such stuff. However, does anyone have any idea of how the UI code communicate...

So, there are a few games being developed that are bringing back the arena shooters back. Strife, an indie title, bringing the Doom feel back. What would you like to seen in a modern Quake title? I don't really like the idea of retro-graphics, i would love to see something with AAA graphics/physics/...

Thanks a lot for the info, guys. The OpenKatana code was very instructive.