while talking about faithfull dont forget tochris/gltochris 
albeit the code tree reads more like quake2.
its not directly a modders engine "gets very pissy about some qc vars" 
 

  it actually can be made to look very nice as shown in the example i uploaded in general. 
heh and well tenebrae while it had its fair share of nasty hacks one thing was actually pretty good the scriptable particle system  
