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Open-Source Cube Engine Gets Major Update

Posted by simoniker on from the beerness-next-to-goodness dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cube, the Open Source (ZLIB) multiplayer and singleplayer FPS game and engine for Windows/Linux, has finally put out a new release. New features include demo recording/playback, new arena multiplayer modes, jumppads, improved mapmodel physics and configurability (bridges), mp3/ogg playback and a completely new cube soundtrack, many cool new maps and more! Get this 'Doom/Quake-style [engine] with some uncompromising brutal oldskool gameplay' at cubeengine.com."

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  1. Still v1? by __aatgod8309 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm waiting for Sauerbraten before i start getting excited. ('Oldskool' doesn't do anything for me, anyway...)

  2. Re:i don't want to sound harsh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It doesn't play a bit like Quake 3. Did you even play the game?

  3. Re:i don't want to sound harsh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Plus the engine itself isn't anything like Quake 3. It's hard to think of anything that it is like - possibly a ridiculously advanced Wolfenstein 3D with teeny-tiny blocks, but I'm not sure if that's a good way of describing it...

  4. So dark by superpulpsicle · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What is wrong with FPS nowadays, every game gets darker and darker. I have my brightness maxed out on my monitor and gamma way up.

    I heard a myth that game engines can generate more polygons in the dark. Can someone verify if this is complete BS?

    1. Re:So dark by JFMulder · · Score: 4, Informative

      Well, less hardware lights means light calculations, but since games rarely use more than two hardware light source. (even games like Spinter Cell use only a light or two, everything else is lightmaps)

      I think it's just a trend that started back a few years ago to have dark environments instead of colorfull worlds.

  5. Re:Ogre? by Ramses0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the simple case, Ogre is an engine, Cube is a thing.

    """ ...posted some new screenshots of their upcoming curling simulation, Granite 2004, which uses OGRE for rendering. We have to say it's looking very nice indeed.
    """

    Ogre doesn't do anything by itself except spit out Javadocs or Doxygen, or whatever. Cube is like quake. It runs, it does stuff, you can use it to build other things. At it's core it has a 3d engine that you could probably use for other projects (this is what Ogre is), but even without any extra work, it's a game in it's own right.

    Ogre is going to have all the: "call this function to set up view-frustrum culling" or "call this function to update the in-game camera position" or "call this function to have your game instantiate an object oriented 3d object which the physics engine that you write can manipulate". (All apologies for my crappy explanations, any Ogre developers ;^)

    Basically, each project's end-product is targetting different levels. Ogre is designed to be general purpose 3d rendering library, Cube is designed to be nifty, fun, extensible, editable game thingy.

    --Robert