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  1. Re:Not quite as exciting as the headline sounded by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Company Seeks To Boost Linux Game Development With 3D Engine Giveaway

    Examples for ioquake3
    Examples for XreaL
    Examples for Cube 2
    Examples for Irrlicht
    Examples for Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine
    Examples for Crystal Space
    Examples for Blender Game Engine
    Examples for Panda3D

    It's quite obvious that all of these engines are much more advanced than Darkplaces. Darkplaces doesn't even do basic stuff like HDR lighting, DOF or parallax mapping. You could reproduce most effects in Darkplaces with shaders in ioquake3, which is basically just a cleaned up id Tech 3 engine. Then there is the issue of poor performance in Darkplaces...

  2. Re:Not quite as exciting as the headline sounded by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative · on Company Seeks To Boost Linux Game Development With 3D Engine Giveaway

    When I read the headline I thought "why would anyone care?" There are plenty of good, free engines out there already.

    ioquake3
    XreaL
    Cube 2
    Irrlicht
    OGRE
    Crystal Space
    Blender
    Panda3D

    And if John Carmack doesn't go back on his word, id Tech 4 will soon be free.

  3. Q3A remake? by Hurricane78 · · Score: 1 · on Open Source FPS Blood Frontier Releases Beta 2

    Looks like a low-quality Q3A remake.

    I don’t think it can beat Q3A CPMA (and Defrag) though. Especially not with the XreaL engine and High Quality Quake models and textures.

  4. Re:With a fast CPU and a dual GPU setup... by Enderandrew · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Aims To Close Performance Gap With Internet Explorer 9

    I know you're joking, but Mozilla was already working on a hardware accelerated canvas system before IE. Even better, it will tie into OpenGL ES so someone could code a FPS engine into a web page.

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/Canvas:3D

    Xreal for instance is a pretty impressive engine coded in OpenGL ES.

    http://www.xreal-project.net/

  5. Xreal, evolution Q3, etc... by DrYak · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine

    Please point me to GPL'ed sources of ID software engine technology equivalent to the technology described in TFA. Thanks.

    Xreal
    Heavily improved version of the (GPLed) Id Tech 3 engine. Includes features such as shadow mapping, per pixel lightning, etc... bringing the whole project visually closer to what's available in modern engines.
    Other questions ?

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    More seriously :

    Giving away free (gratis) access to some proprietary technology is nothing more than a complex marketing ploy to try to attract more commercial licensee in the long term, by gaining more fans and hackers in the short term. The basic idea is "let the Indie market play around with the engine, and if some group emerge with a new killer-app, they'll have to license our engine".

    Whereas giving complete freedom to tinker with the GPL is the most community enabling. Granted, id Tech 5 is not in the GPL now. But on the other hand, the full freedom offered by the GPL has enabled heavy customisation such as the above and many other. And in the long term, are much more valuable for creativity.

  6. Re:Still behind id by dnaumov · · Score: 1 · on Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine

    http://xreal-project.net/

    You are delusional if you think quake3 engine (id tech 3) is anywhere near UE3.

  7. Re:Still behind id by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine

    http://xreal-project.net/

  8. xReal by Enderandrew · · Score: 1 · on The Best Game Engines

    Honestly, I'd like to see a comparison of professional engines, the common free engines, and XreaL.

    http://xreal-project.net/

    I don't know why XreaL doesn't get more attention.