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Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine

Posted by michael on from the little-engine-that-could dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There is a new 3d game engine being developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel) that utilizes SDL and OpenGL. It is pretty full-featured already, and is heavily influenced by Quake3." Same guy who did panoramic Quake.

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  1. Interesting editing mode by theefer · · Score: 5, Informative

    The main interest in this engine is, I think, the editing mode. It's simply amazing. Anytime you want while in game (I suppose not during a deathmatch though), you just press E and enter the editing mode.

    You can raise/lower small cubes (or group of cubes) with the mouse scroller, etc. Everything can be built this way. It's both easy and powerful, requires no compilation (press E again and play) and works really well !

    The graphics are far from ugly, I'd say the game is rather pretty. It works well under linux, which is a good thing too.

    But you really have to try this editing mode ;-)

    Let's hope the engine will be open source ...

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    theefer
  2. I love it... by Corbin+Dallas · · Score: 5, Funny

    If for no other reason that the game's storyline. From the docs:

    Official game storyline: "You kill stuff. The End."

    Finally a first person shooter that doesn't try to beat me over the head with hours of meaningless plot development!

    --
    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
  3. DM servers by cobar · · Score: 5, Informative

    For anybody that's interested in trying out the multiplayer, I have a server running at:
    deskstar.101freeway.com

    for at least the rest of the weekend.

  4. Re:whats best way to begin something like this? by JFMulder · · Score: 5, Informative

    You should first look at NeHe OpenGL tutorials. It will teach you a long way into 3d programming. It's very well written and covers a lot of subjects. Check it out at http://nehe.gamedev.net/. There are a lot of tutorials, and most of them is written in more than one language, so you can learn about using OpenGL even tough C++ is not your favorite language. The are tutorials in C++, PowerBasic... And code for Mac, Windows, Linux, everything! A true gem. This is the best beginners ressource you can find.