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Its described it as 'idTech3' because they use q3 toolchains, q3 shaders, etc, but with skeletal models instead of md3. That's the justification for that, anyway, and describes the visuals better than claiming it to be a paletted game. The Wastes still uses FTE somewhere under all the menuqc+csqc. A...

using blackslashes as a path seperator is stupid. there are two reasons to do it: 1) you're passing them to some dos commandline program that uses forward slashes to mean options. 2) you're using one of the windows shell functions. the first is inherently non-portable, so should be incredibly rare. ...

ewicw's tools should support origin brushes. you'll still need a wad that provides an otherwise-useless texture in order to place them in your editor though. make sure your origin brush is axially aligned etc, just in case. you can then set avelocity and a nice big nextthink, and the brush entity sh...

LSHADER_ORTHO was me having a go at ortho lights, but I never actually got it working properly. Matrix4x4_CM_OrthographicD3D is NOT what you want. gl uses matricies that span from -1 to 1 for depth values. d3d uses 0 to 1. mixing them badly will result in some screwed shadow maps. I don't remember i...

materialname { materialproperties { subpassproperties_1stpass } { subpassproperties_2ndpass } } the 'program' property is weird in that the original version of it was placed at the material level (and merged all subpasses, with the extras being merely there for textures). the new version favours th...

MyShader { //used for forward-rendered rtlights. additively blends according to the surface, drawn per-light. bemode rtlight { { //woo, one glsl to rule them all program terrain#RTLIGHT blendfunc add //FIXME: these maps are a legacy thing, and could be removed if third-party glsl properly contains ...

time: current simulation/interpolated time of the server. drifts with lag changes, stops when paused, etc. may snap back and forth for parsing network messages, which is fun. may be backdated for more precise nextthink timing. just generally unreliable even in vanilla ssqc, and few people even reali...

in terms of rendering, the basic idea is that FTE is 'just' trisoup. the client generates batches of trisoup meshes. each batch has a single shader and a few other common properties. the backend logic of each renderer then takes those batches, walks through the shader passes, and draws the meshes ac...

if you're trying to strip out lots of stuff, you might want to use wastes/TW as a base. cp common/config_wastes.h common/config_myconfig.h && make m-rel FTE_CONFIG=myconfig causes it to read a custom config header based upon eukara's wastes config with a number of config options that strip o...

forum ate my post by forgetting that I was signed in.
https://sourceforge.net/p/fteqw/code/HE ... em_bind.qc
figure out what got eaten yourself.

make sure the directory it says actually exists. FTE internally uses forward slashes everywhere, because they work everywhere (there's a few microsoft-specific exceptions to that, but they don't apply to standard C). the backslashes can arise from using microsoft functions to query working directori...

dude, use |= for SendFlags, NOT +=. If you're ignoring the flags argument in your SendEntity function, then you might use =1; or possibly =-1; instead of |=1; but still not +=1; insisting on using += is just a wtf that shows that you didn't understand anything of what I wrote. in case it wasn't clea...

it means that entity 4 got mis-read. There's 7 bytes of data in the message, but the csqc read only 1 of those (which had the value 0). and that this entity 4's classname is 'indicator' on the server. Or more specifically, it means that your CSQC_Ent_Update function is fucked and doesn't deal with e...

firstly: (note that this isn't your immediate problem, but will be important later) you're not using SendFlags properly. The field provides a set of flags that the engine uses to track what parts of the entity need to be resent. If you want to resend everything, then you can just set it to -1 (integ...

I blame quake2's 10fps nature for making so many things unworkable even in singleplayer. The annoying part is that its really annoying to 'fix', with all sorts of compatibility issues (for a start, it needs new gamecode, which makes it an impossible feature for me). right now I'm wondering what issu...