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Came here to say the same; it’s like the first time I heard Nirvana on a “classic rock” station.
“Nevermind” is longer ago from today than “Rubber Soul” was from “Nevermind.” Time is cruel.
Is this how my parents felt in the 80s?
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“Nevermind” is longer ago from today than “Rubber Soul” was from “Nevermind.” Time is cruel.
Holy crap you just made me feel completely ancient. I had never made that realization before. Is this how my parents felt in the 80s?
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> Since this engine is GPL-licensed it seems like any game built with this engine would then also need to be GPL-licensed, correct? Yes, mostly correct. In order to comply with the GPL, and distribute game binaries, you need to make the source to any game you make with it available under the same terms. Technically that does not mean that you have to distribute the game under the GPL, but in practice that's how you w…
Wouldn’t a game engine have the same role as gcc? As a tool, unless you’re extending the source itself, you shouldn’t be infected by the engine’s license
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.en.html
Also, I’d like to complain about your terminology—I don’t think “infected” is the right term. I think it’s a bit unfortunate that the word caught on. You’re never infected by the engine’s license, because you are never forced to use the same license.
It’s also not a question of whether you are extending the source itself, but whether you are creating a work based on something which is GPL. Extending the source of an engine makes it clear and unambiguous that you are making something based on the engine, but it’s not the only way. An engine really isn’t a tool. You can’t interact with the engine and a game made with it separately. You can’t really swap out engines. There’s not a ton of case law exploring this, though.
This is great. I remember back to the late 90s when I was busy hacking gamex86.dll to customise my Quake2 Death-matches with my friends. One thing I wonder about this release is though - the Original Quake2 engine had a very fixed palette and also some odd lighting that always skewed the palette to a brown tint - does qengine fix this? Also... Bonus... Some Quake2 maps, that I made way back: http://www.jaruzel.com/bl…
I can't find the website I used to download maps and skins from. It must be gone by now.
Was anyone here at HN into Dark Forces II / Jedi Knight back in the day? The retro graphics of this post made me a bit nostalgic. The in-game scripting in Jedi Knight was my first exposure to software, and the modding community at Massassi was an incredibly creative and lively place. The poor checksums on game assets in Jedi Knight, along with early multiplayer on MSN Gaming Zone made the whole gaming community an ad…
This is really cool, and I can’t believe I’ve lived long enough to see Quake 2 be called “retro.” I’ll likely live long enough to see the Unreal Engine of today called retro. I’ve never thought of this before, and it’s wild.
Came here to say the same; it’s like the first time I heard Nirvana on a “classic rock” station.
Was anyone here at HN into Dark Forces II / Jedi Knight back in the day? The retro graphics of this post made me a bit nostalgic. The in-game scripting in Jedi Knight was my first exposure to software, and the modding community at Massassi was an incredibly creative and lively place. The poor checksums on game assets in Jedi Knight, along with early multiplayer on MSN Gaming Zone made the whole gaming community an ad…
While it's something cool to work with Quake II, its net-protocol has its downsides and I'd encourage anyone replace it with QuakeWorlds' networking as you'll run at a locked 10 Hz with the clients interpolating between the frames otherwise. This was done for easier handling of animations in single-player entities, but was regretted later (according to JohnC's own .plan files).
Quake 1 is nicer to work with in that regard. Also get used to wobbly model animations with the MD2 model-format as the precision of the vertex-animated models is very poor :)
It's also interesting to note that Carmack considered using a 16-bit MMX-powered SW renderer for QuakeWorld/Quake II (making it real cutting edge in 1997), but considering the global 8-bit palette was already in place, it would have resulted in a loss of precision of already paletted textures so it was decided against and they did it the old way.
This is a cool project! - CMake, yay! These make generating build files for a variety of platforms (even Windows) a breeze. It also works with code completion stuff (CLion IDE, KDevelop both have CMake-based projects) - I like how it splits stuff up as well ( https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/tree/master/src/gam... ). - As for vendorizing SDL2, there is an opportunity for optimization: The shared libraries and…