"FitzQuake Plus": An Easy Engine To Compile

ceriux · Post by **ceriux** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:25 am

sweet, will you give a small walkthrough in the steps to correctly use them as you have implemented?

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 2:03 am

Well ... I'm thinking prefix the texture name with a "{" and use color #255 to indicate the transparent part.

I'm rather sure that's what Remake Quake does and also what Half-Life does. And quite nice that MH and gb + co. stuck with the prefix used in another game

I'll see if I can get this out tonight.

mh · Post by mh » Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:00 am

Baker wrote:Well ... I'm thinking prefix the texture name with a "{" and use color #255 to indicate the transparent part.

I'm rather sure that's what Remake Quake does and also what Half-Life does. And quite nice that MH and gb + co. stuck with the prefix used in another game

I'll see if I can get this out tonight.

Yeah, that's what we do and the reason why is because it was already an established standard. Brushes using these textures really should go in bmodels too otherwise PVS will go crazy, but the engine code can support them on the world. In the future, when/if detail brushes work, this will be important.

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:15 am

Version 2 .... SDL build? Native Windows build? It is all the same source code now.

Kurok support. "Fence" texture support. HLBSP support. etc, etc.

http://quake-1.com/files/engine-sources ... lus_v2.zip

Mexicouger · Post by **Mexicouger** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:03 pm

I decided to use Fitzkurok for my mod, and Jukki suggested I use this. All in all, thanks for making this

EDIT: It won't let me start the game at all. Everytime I click it, it says Quake has encountered a problem and needs to close. Then it asks me to send an error report. Does anyone know how the heck to fix this? DP works for me, But I want to use this engine.

revelator · Post by **revelator** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:36 pm

ms runtime going fubar ? had this experience a load of times with the msvc8 and msvc9 runtimes

look in windows error log.

if you have something from that quake engine saying the side by side configuration is wrong then you need an upated runtime.

im really happy they disregarded that model in msvc10

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:02 am

Mexicouger wrote:I decided to use Fitzkurok for my mod, and Jukki suggested I use this. All in all, thanks for making this

EDIT: It won't let me start the game at all. Everytime I click it, it says Quake has encountered a problem and needs to close. Then it asks me to send an error report. Does anyone know how the heck to fix this? DP works for me, But I want to use this engine.

Please use the most recent link ( http://quake-1.com/files/engine-sources ... lus_v2.zip ) and self-compile a Windows-native build.

I didn't upload a binary for that one but you should be able to compile your own hella-easy.

Still, it is possible your DarkPlaces gamedata isn't compatible with a normal Quake engine and is causing the crash.

Lemme know.

Mexicouger · Post by **Mexicouger** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:14 am

There isn't any project files in v2. How the f*** am I supposed to compile this.

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:25 am

Version 2 uses CodeBlocks. I didn't have time to make a MSVC Express version last update.

The project file has the extension .cbp

To compile ...

Option #1: Code::Blocks + MinGW. Code::Blocks is a light and tight IDE that combined with MinGW uses the gcc compiler. The install is a mere 74MB. Download that at http://prdownload.berlios.de/codeblocks ... -setup.exe . To compile, unzip the fitzplus.zip and then unzip the engine source zip contained within. Double click the FitzQuake_GCC.cbp file to open the project; press F9 to Build the binary and run. The End.

Mexicouger · Post by **Mexicouger** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:33 pm

Ugh... I avoided downloading MSVC so much... Then I download it to work on porting some of the features from Revamped PSP to Revamped PC. Then I want to use Kurok instead, and it has problems...

I goto use this engine and now it requires codeblocks. Now I have to get codeblocks after i for-longed to get MSVC. I don't know what I should do now.

Also, I tried regular Kurok without modifying anything, and it surprisingly worked. I really wonder whats up.

frag.machine · Post by **frag.machine** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:13 am

Mexicouger wrote:Ugh... I avoided downloading MSVC so much... Then I download it to work on porting some of the features from Revamped PSP to Revamped PC. Then I want to use Kurok instead, and it has problems...

I goto use this engine and now it requires codeblocks. Now I have to get codeblocks after i for-longed to get MSVC. I don't know what I should do now.

Also, I tried regular Kurok without modifying anything, and it surprisingly worked. I really wonder whats up.

Code::Blocks is just a IDE. You can still using Visual Studio compiler with it.

Chrispy · Post by **Chrispy** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:47 am

Thanks a lot for this release. I really wanted to get frag.machine's chase cam code in this but now it's already been done, w00t.

mh · Post by mh » Sun Mar 20, 2011 5:10 pm

fitzquake_plus_mh.zip

I took Bakers "FitzQuake Plus" version 1 code and hot-rodded it for fast lightmaps support. This will now run over 30 times faster on Intel hardware in scenes with lots of dynamic or animated lights; smaller improvements can be expected on better hardware.

I also fixed up some errors in the MSVC project files
- Selecting a Debug configuration now makes a Debug build
- Removed the manifest file
- Removed browse information (not needed with MSVC 2008)

Before: 8 FPS
After: 260 FPS

Use your favourite diff tool to figure out what was changed; it's very little really.

You're welcome.

Baker · Post by **Baker** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:02 pm

mh wrote:I also fixed up some errors in the MSVC project files
- Selecting a Debug configuration now makes a Debug build
- Removed the manifest file
- Removed browse information (not needed with MSVC 2008)

Before: 8 FPS
After: 260 FPS

Use your favourite diff tool to figure out what was changed; it's very little really.

You're welcome.

Haha ... thanks!

Jukki · Post by **Jukki** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:53 am

Looks like nazi zombies portabl is goingto change using this engine because darkplaces to psp connection doesnt work. Once more baker saved my game <3