Doom 3 engine release and game code

[revelator]

some work on menues (using 6thvenom's as a base)



ultra quality mode slow as molasses



a few bugs with sikkpins mod namely ssao (most of the bugs with it comes from this because he couldnt find a way to acces the depth buffer before the source release so it uses a few workarounds which unfortunatly have some not so nice side effects).

[revelator]

running into a few problems with the released source, maybe someone has an idea what can cause this.

wall text flickers when you move (darn annoying) im not sure if its caused by something i did to the code so if someone could try my exe and see if it happens to them to it would help put my mind to rest about that atleast.

i fixed a bunch of bad codepieces with the same variable or constant defined twice inside the scope it helped a bit with some weirdness but the above remains.

[revelator]

its mod related :/ still weird though since the only texture that can cause this is bigchars.tga i tried replacing it with the original but it still does it so maybe a bad shader somehwere urgh.

[revelator]

trying the glsl backend but im running into a bug i think.



is this expected ?

[mh]

Looks like in-place mipmapping of the post-processing scene texture.

[Jok3r098]

Perhaps you have enabled some debugging flag that does this?

[revelator]

not to my knowladge its straight from raynors code. the above picture only happens with external arb bump shaders like pom ( parralax occlusion mapping ). Mh pointed out it might clash with something in the materials im going to investigate if thats the case (i use sikkmod with doom 3). without sikkmod it works though characters look a bit cartoonish.

[revelator]

i been pondering if transfusion should move to using the doom 3 engine (nothing against darkplaces but i think the doom 3 community might have an edge when it comes to making content) also has anyone checked out the hexen 2 mod for doom 3
it looks freaking amazing. I hope they get to finish it as of yet its a demo.

heres a few shots.

[revelator]

[revelator]

the glsl backend works like a charm i must say but as pointed out earlier
theres one pretty annoying bug. the glsl backend needs to be hooked into the material shader code -> and i need to figure out why the arb2 shaders mingle with the glsl ones causing the pic from before with something that looks like a mirror in mirror view.

also a glsl to arb shader and vice versa function would be cool.

[toneddu2000]

Too ignorant about programming to create a new thread , I'll ask it here.
Now that Id released ENGINE source code but not GAME code as open source software, is it possible to create its own game with only the engine code? In other words, is it possible to create from scratch game code? There are some documentation about it from ID or they just released the engine with the purpose to permit developers to add goodies (better performance, fixing some compatibility issues, etc.) on Doom3 game data?
Another maybe stupid question: would it be possible to "attach" quakec game code to doom3 engine?

[revelator]

several more or less complete mods for doom3 so its definatly possible the hexen one i linked above might even become a full game instead of a mod now that the source is open.
im no QC guru but making a backend to read qc files should be possible but im not sure how much help it would be if you plan on making a doom3 based quake QC might be to limited so its probably better to just use the doom3 VM and write stuff from scratch.

[toneddu2000]

[goldenboy]

I think it was called Doomscript...

[revelator]

yep something like that i wish i where better with dooms new features but here im as much learning as anyone else
well i managed a few things but its based mostly on the works of others like the glsl backend (originally from raynorpat) .
i made a rather good high def update based on sikkmod originally and refined over the weeks to be ultra sikk (yes phun intended)
i could post some screens but they dont do it justice. i can upload it somewhere if someone wants to try it but its pretty huge due to oversize dds with no compression and high def tga's.