What are you working on?

[Jay Dolan]

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[Jay Dolan]

[Spiney]

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[Jay Dolan]

[Barnes]

Shadow volumes ideal thing for closed levels. But if we need add shadows from bsp-bmodels, otherwise the shadow will "break through" the wall (like q3 with cg_shadows 2)

[Jay Dolan]

[Jay Dolan]

[Barnes]

I not seen your code more time ago, remember what it was all very cool optimized for rendering. I studied like you did deluxe maps, but i make my version, and without any compiler But i wanted shadows from all objects and.... make like d3 engine...

[Dr. Shadowborg]

[Spike]

the difference between Q1BSP and Q2BSP collisions is simply this:
Q1BSP is just a load of planes.
Q2BSP has the planes stored in convex brushes.

that is, Q1BSP uses the BSP tree itself for the collision, while Q2BSP merely uses it to find the appropriate brush.
This means Q2BSP can expand the size of the brushes for the collisions (after walking the bsp and following more nodes than strictly required), while Q1BSP cannot and thus can only support point-sized collisions.
Which is why Q1BSP actually contains 3 separate BSP trees (HL contains 4, H2 contains about 6). Each BSP tree is build from pre-expanded brushes, which is why they can't be changed other than by hacking the qbsp and recompiling.

[Jay Dolan]

Wow! I did not know that. I've spent thousands of hours in the Q2 code base, but only a handful in Quake or Quake3.

Learn something new every day!

Edit: This means Quake likely doesn't contain the hell that is CM_TraceToBrush

[jitspoe]

Haven't posted in a while -- here's a video of some of the waypoint AI stuff I've been working on

https://vimeo.com/116576240
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jphSKHwGjOw

(Same video, different sites).

[qbism]

AI - the realtime feedback on node placement and bot summoning is cool. One of the crates appeared to be offset a few units from the palette below, creating a thin ledge. Was that tripping-up the bot ?

q2bsp vs q3bsp - q2bsp lighting is additive, q3 is a multiplier. The q3 method is faster but dynamic lighting fails in dark areas. Anything x 0 = 0.