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Quake 3 Source Code to be Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the way-better-than-any-textbook dept.

fwice writes "QuakeCon has just kicked off and at the end of the keynote speech, John Carmack made an announcement saying that the Quake 3 sourcecode will be released shortly. "

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  1. This is great by ibentmywookie · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is why I love idsoftware. Now we'll see some cool stuff done with the quake III engine, like with Doom Legacy, quakeforge, etc etc.

    Yay :)

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  2. Cool by mistermark · · Score: 5, Informative

    Cool! this also means projects like DEVMAP and QQQ can be released to a bigger audience

  3. torrent of carmacks keynote by i88i · · Score: 5, Informative

    as always, filerush has got the goods: clickies

  4. Quake 3 Source Code to be Released by Agret · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article name is misleading as the Quake 3 source has been slated for release for a very long time now. It was pushed back because someone licensed the engine right at the end of its life cycle.

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  5. Re:Licensing by NeoChaosX · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course it's going to be GPL. Carmack release the Quake 1 and 2 source code under the GPL, so why wouldn't he do the same for Q3?

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  6. Thanks id by ribblem · · Score: 5, Informative

    I saw the source for Quake 3 long ago since I work for an IHV. I think the biggest benefit it will have over its predecessors is that it is much cleaner and easier to understand/modify (at least from my brief examination it seemed this way to me). It should be very straight forward to add in VBOs which numerous licensees have done. It will be a little more work to cleanly add fragment programs, but still not bad. Again licensees have already done this proving it's doable. Adding in stencil shadows really shouldn't be too much work. I'm sure adding FBO wouldn't be much work either, but depending on the effects you want to use this for they could take some effort. While I'm not as well versed in physics I imagine someone should be able to expand the physics engine of Q3 to the now popular rigid based per triangle collisions.
    At this point for tons less work than writing a game engine from scratch you'd have a very nice modern engine for whatever you want as long as you release the source with it.
    Thank you id Software.

  7. Let me clear this up: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Heya, Ghostface here (leader of the Nosferatu Team)

    No we are not really waiting for the Quake3 src in order to release Nosferatu for free. The game is based upon a heavily modified version of the Qfusion Engine which in turn is based on the Quake2 sourcecode.

    Engine : Quake 2 -> Qfusion - > Nosferatu Engine

    No Quake3 in there ;)
    We just use some data formats from quake3 :)