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The Mods That Are Keeping Quake Alive In 2017. Dominic Tarason. 2/06/17 10:26am. Limiting mappers to just a pair of lesser-used texture sets resulted in a clean and crisp-looking level pack. Steam Workshop: Quake Live. An HD texture pack for Quake Live, this only features textures that were from Quake 3, any other textures will not get this treatment. If the author would like me to remove this content I will do so.

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Was one of the last games to utilize the id Tech 3 engine.id Tech 3, popularly known as the Quake III Arena engine, is a developed by for their video game. It has been adopted by numerous games. During its time, it competed with the; both engines were widely licensed.While id Tech 3 is based on engine; a large amount of the code was rewritten. Successor was derived from id Tech 3, as was 's used in onwards.At 2005, announced that the id Tech 3 would be released under the (version 2), and it was released on August 19, 2005. Originally distributed by id via, the code can be downloaded from id's account. Contents.Features Graphics Unlike most other game engines released at the time — including its primary competitor, the, id Tech 3 requires an -compliant to run.

The engine does not include a.id Tech 3 introduced spline-based curved surfaces in addition to planar volumes, which are responsible for many of the surfaces present within the game. ShadersThe graphical technology of the game is based tightly around a ' system where the appearance of many surfaces can be defined in text files referred to as 'shader scripts.' Shaders are described and rendered as several layers, each layer contains a texture, a 'blend mode' which determines how to superimpose it over the previous layer and texture orientation modes such as environment mapping, scrolling, and rotation. These features can readily be seen within the game with many bright and active surfaces in each map and even on character models.

The shader system goes beyond visual appearance, defining the contents of volumes (e.g. A water volume is defined by applying a water shader to its surfaces), light emission and which sound to play when a volume is trodden upon.

In order to assist calculation of these shaders, id Tech 3 implements a specific function, which attracted a significant amount of attention in the game development community for its clever use of integer operations. VideoIn-game videos all use a proprietary format called 'RoQ', which was originally created by, the co-designer of Quake 3, for the game. Internally RoQ uses to encode video and to encode audio. While the format itself is proprietary it was successfully reverse-engineered in 2001, and the actual RoQ decoder is present in the Quake 3 source code release. RoQ has seen little use outside games based on the id Tech 3 or id Tech 4 engines, but is supported by several video players (such as ) and a handful of third-party encoders exist. One notable exception is the -based game, which uses RoQ files for its intro and outro cutscenes, as well as for a joke cutscene that plays after a mission at the end of part one.Modelsid Tech 3 loads in the MD3 format.

The format uses movements (sometimes called ) as opposed to in order to store animation. The animation features in the MD3 format are superior to those in 's format because an animator is able to have a variable number of per second instead of MD2's standard 10 key frames per second. This allows for more complex animations that are less 'shaky' than the models found in.Another important feature about the MD3 format is that models are broken up into three different parts which are anchored to each other. Typically, this is used to separate the head, torso and legs so that each part can animate independently for the sake of animation blending (i.e.

A running animation on the legs, and shooting animation on the torso). Each part of the model has its own set of textures.The character models are lit and shaded using while the levels (stored in the ) are lit either with or Gouraud shading depending on the user's preference. The engine is able to take colored lights from the lightgrid and apply them to the models, resulting in a lighting quality that was, for its time, very advanced.In the GPLed version of the source code, most of the code dealing with the MD4 files was missing. It is presumed that id simply never finished the format, although almost all licensees derived their own skeletal animation systems from what was present. Did this for use in the game, the to which formed the basis of MD4 support completed by someone who used the Gongo. Dynamic shadowsThe engine is capable of three different kinds of shadows.

One just places a circle with faded edges at the characters' feet, commonly known as the 'blob shadow' technique. The other two modes project an accurate polygonal shadow across the floor. The difference between the latter two modes is one's reliance on opaque, solid black shadows while the other mode attempts (with mixed success) to project shadows in a medium-transparent black.

Neither of these techniques clip the shadow volumes, causing the shadows to extend down walls and through geometry.Other rendering featuresOther visual features include, mirrors, portals, decals, and wave-form vertex distortion.Sound id Tech 3's sound system outputs to two channels using a looping output buffer, mixed from 96 tracks with. All of the sound mixing is done within the engine, which can create problems for licensees hoping to implement or support. Several popular effects such as echoes are also absent.A major flaw of the sound system is that the mixer is not given its own thread, so if the game stalls for too long (particularly while navigating the menus or connecting to a server), the small output buffer will begin to loop, a very noticeable artifact. This problem was also present in the, and engines.

Networking id Tech 3 uses a 'snapshot' system to relay information about game 'frames' to the client over. The server updates object interaction at a fixed rate independent of the rate clients update the server with their actions and then attempts to send the state of all objects at that moment (the current server frame) to each client. The server attempts to omit as much information as possible about each frame, relaying only differences from the last frame the client confirmed as received. All data packets are compressed by with static pre-calculated frequency data to reduce bandwidth use even further.Quake 3 also integrated a relatively elaborate cheat-protection system called 'pure server.' Any client connecting to a pure server automatically has pure mode enabled, and while pure mode is enabled only files within data packs can be accessed. Clients are disconnected if their data packs fail one of several integrity checks. The cgame.qvm file, with its high potential for cheat-related modification, is subject to additional integrity checks.

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Developers must manually deactivate pure server to test maps or mods that are not in data packs using the PK3 file format. Later versions supplemented pure server with support, though all the hooks to it are absent from the source code release because PunkBuster is software and including support for it in the source code release would have caused any redistributors/reusers of the code to violate the. Virtual machine id Tech 3 uses a to control object behavior on the server, effects and prediction on the client and the user interface. This presents many advantages as mod authors do not need to worry about crashing the entire game with bad code, clients could show more advanced effects and game menus than was possible in and the user interface for mods was entirely customizable.Virtual machine files are developed in, using to compile them to a pseudo-assembly format. A tool called q3asm then converts them to QVM files, which are multi-segmented files consisting of static data and instructions based on a reduced set of the input opcodes. Unless operations which require a specific are used, a QVM file will run the same on any platform supported by Quake 3.The virtual machine also contained bytecode compilers for the and architectures, executing QVM instructions via an.ioquake3., Brian Hook.

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