Retroquad

[mankrip]

Here's my ammo/health/explosion box HD texture pack.

It's a remix of QRP textures and ezepov's textures, with many small details edited and corrected, plus _luma textures for all of them (I've created new lumas for textures that didn't have any), so they're visible in the dark (when using engines that lights external BSP models properly).

(also posted in the definitive HD replacement content list thread)

[Seven]

Hello mankrip,

Do you have some news about what you are working at the moment ?
Your Development blog sounds interesting.

Even though I am still suprised that you seem to focus on supporting all kinds of external replacements in your engine. I mean I understand that there is a part of the community that requests this kind of stuff.
Anyhow, seeing that you do it in a quite different and unique way rather than just copy/paste code from other advanced engines (like other engine devs do it). That is great !
You seem to enjoy tinkering with features your own way and that is good.

Have a nice time mankrip.
Seven

[mankrip]

Do you have some news about what you are working at the moment ?
Your Development blog sounds interesting.

I've had almost zero time to work on it since my mother died in November; there's a lot of real-life stuff I've got to take care of now, some of which will still take several months. But I'm slowing trying to find some time for coding again.

My current work is on implementing a new feature that should also help to get rid of some texture format limitations. The QRP HD texture packs helped a lot to understand the challenges involved in creating and using high-quality new textures.

Also, there's a lot of my own texture code to refactor, and the compiled texture format still needs a number of changes.

Even though I am still suprised that you seem to focus on supporting all kinds of external replacements in your engine. I mean I understand that there is a part of the community that requests this kind of stuff.

Well, not exactly. I've got a very specific vision for how this engine should look, and it requires supporting some modern content, but not all; bumpmaps, normalmaps and textured particles won't be supported. Also, there should be no refraction, no caustics, no specularity, no decals, and no water reflections.

Colored lighting should be implemented, but that will require some further deep changes to the color subsystem of the whole engine. Fog should also be implemented.

And there's still a number of fundamental visual quality improvements planned, which are my main focus at the moment. Some of them will require a different BSP format, so I'm aiming to learn and rewrite the whole BSP renderer, while keeping compatibility with vanilla Quake content.

Have a nice time mankrip.

Thanks.

[Dutch]

sorry to hear about your mother, mankrip. take your time, quake's not going anywhere anytime soon.

[mankrip]

Implemented bilinear texture scaling. Still some bugs to iron out.

[Seven]

Hello mankrip,

I am very sorry to hear about your mother. My condolences.
You are working on great looking things. I can hardly imagine, not beeing an engine coder, how difficult and time consuming it is.

Looking forward seeing your progress.

All the Best for you,
Seven

[mankrip]

HD texture support on liquids. Turbulence timing & scale for HD textures still needs work, and there's no luma texture support for them yet:


Also, liquid textures now supports mipmapping, with properly mipmapped turbulence. Here's a screenshot taken with a high d_mipscale value, to make mipmap transitions more evident:

[Seven]

Hello mankrip,

Real liquid turbulence is always great (with external textures even better).
Screenshots look great !

Keep up the fantastic work mankrip.
All the Best.

[mankrip]

Thanks.

I've figured out that the turbulence upscaling for HD textures must be done in a completely different way from the mipmapped texture turbulence. While mipmapped textures can use "mipmapped" turbulence, HD textures needs the turbulence to be rescaled in realtime.

Edit: done.

[mankrip]

First, here's how the vanilla slime looks in Retroquad's 8-bit color software renderer, with translucency and lighting enabled:


Now I've also implemented support for HD textures on liquids, including luma textures, mipmaps, and properly scaled turbulence:


The slime's QRP HD texture in this screenshot was manually edited by me to make the luma texture more subtle, because by default all QRP lumas on liquids are too uniformly bright.

[WhiteMagicRaven]

i will defenitely try this Engine, nice work!!!
another open source engine that uses software rendering is Engoo by leileilol,
maybe it helps you in developments

[mankrip]

Implemented soft-depth on opaque BSP entities.

Screenshot from a RetroJam 6 map: The Legacy of Giants, by khreathor.
Edited version with soft-depth sand.

i will defenitely try this Engine, nice work!!!
another open source engine that uses software rendering is Engoo by leileilol,
maybe it helps you in developments

Engoo is a good engine, but the Retroquad codebase is too different from it already. Stuff like colored lighting will be implemented in a completely different way in Retroquad.

[Dutch]

Wow. That looks smooth!

[Seven]

Implemented soft-depth on opaque BSP entities.

Screenshot from a RetroJam 6 map: The Legacy of Giants, by khreathor.
Edited version with soft-depth sand.



Engoo is a good engine, but the Retroquad codebase is too different from it already. Stuff like colored lighting will be implemented in a completely different way in Retroquad.

This is how Quake should look like !
It looks almost real.

Amazing job mankrip.

[Blood Vengeance]

That's beautiful Mankrip! Keep up this awesome work!!