who the hell did this thing!?!!?

It's pretty shit, so slow, no assembly optimizations

if anyone on VOGONS tries this on their 486 be prepared for a slideshow of slideshow proportions. even worse, the loading at the start you'll lose your patience on that first!

If you're wondering what the ROTT sources had a role in this, it's for midi support. unfortunately, that is disabled as I can not get it working under DOS for the time being, but for everything else all the necessary hook-ups for it to work are already in there (it reads from sound/cdtracks/track###.mid where ### is the cd track number like 003... kind of like Darkplaces)

The ROTT source's sound library is for Watcom C. This engine only compiles with DJGPP. You can figure out why I can't do it off the bat for that.

New release is imminent. There's a couple of VERY annoying bugs that are preventing me:

- Changing resolution in Windows makes mouse movement spin out of control sometimes
- Dynamic light position bug
- Can't turn off model interpolation
- Stretchable window doesn't stretch! Wanted to scale up the current video mode.

The stuff that's been added is fairly minor but should still be interesting toward an interesting experience
- Kernel filtering on textures and sprites (shamelessly ripped off this guy)
- Model interpolation
- GLSuck (mimic bad glquake looks for bad mods like glmario, navyseals)
- New DirectDraw backend for Windows Vista/7
- Bobbing bug fixed
- Low detail in VGA fixed
- Low lightmap detail (turns off lightmap filtering in the ASM!, for a tiny speed gain)
- Threw in a d_mipdetail, which is d_mipscale and d_mipcap combined to make lowering map detail in the menu possible.

Still wish:
- ASM DrawSpans16_Filter
- ASM MipBlock8RGBHQ
- DUMB module playback in Windows and DOS (already have hooks, but no sample pointer stuff yet).
- MIDI playback in DOS (more specifically, porting Apogee Sound System from Watcom to DJGPP)

I might have to try to separate the model /sprite drawing functions to restore the ASM originals and regain some speed. Several other engines followed a 'asm stripping' trend, but I'm not following that 😁

A buggy pre-release first (not on the site!), for Windows and DOS

-conwidth was also added, thanks Siggi

This screenshot is in -glsuck mode as well. The overbrights and fullbrights are turned off, i'm just missing r_dynamic and gl_flashblend now 😁

BTW 486s don't like this release much (r_lowdetail and r_lowworld barely helps), however Pentiums seem fine with the texture filtering

I don't think i'll try making assembly anymore.

(it's also just as slow as the c version)

DOS only build of revision 228

Adds dithering, and makes colored lighting only slightly faster

A preview of things to come 😀

Unfortunately I accidentally nuked my DOS version's startup sequence, will fix soon

EDIT: Fixed the DOS Version, was a palette map clamping sequence causing a segfault

Hey, that's pretty cool, can't wait to see the ingame ambiance this effect creates 😁.

You can't wait?

Not pictured: Autosaving, faster colored lighting (10% increase from the last build I posted)

Giving it more graphical improvements this month!

leileilol wrote:

You can't wait?

Not pictured: Autosaving, faster colored lighting (10% increase from the last build I posted)

Dumb question, but what mod are you playing? Whatever it is it looks killer. 😁

That would be Pain Keep, a multiplayer classic. One of the most atmospheric deathmatch packs i've ever played.

Also is anyone out there willing to help me with sound and video output code? I'm looking to support OpenGL for video output (not for rendering the game) so it can work with the Steam Overlay and maybe support glsl postprocessing fragment shaders (higan crt shader anyone?).

So i've greatly improved the particle system among other things. Does anyone like Marcher Fortress?

I think this engine is a volumetric fog, skyrooms and fractal/fire textures away from being like UE1 🤣

still kicking the renderer in the ass. point lights!

Holy crap, those are all really sweet. I'm not by any means what you would call a coder/programmer but I can certainly appreciate all these. 😀

I don't see any system requirements on the page besides DOS/Win95. As in, what CPU is needed to play fluently in ~640x400 with all added features? Also, why does it say "as close to Quake 1.01 as possible"?

I've only bumped the requirements up for wanting more ram, it's 16mb minimum now (due to the surface cache). The engine can still technically function on a 486 with all the whistles disabled (including the new option to disable dynamic lights), and if you're willing to have patience for the lookup table generation 😀

and the "quake 1.01" thing is just part of the oldschool default part of the engine's philosophy.

here's some Windows-only beta, has lots of crap like water, better model shading etc