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This is great. I remember back to the late 90s when I was busy hacking gamex86.dll to customise my Quake2 Death-matches with my friends. One thing I wonder abo

This is great. I remember back to the late 90s when I was busy hacking gamex86.dll to customise my Quake2 Death-matches with my friends. One thing I wonder about this release is though - the Original Quake2 engine had a very fixed palette and also some odd lighting that always skewed the palette to a brown tint - does qengine fix this? Also... Bonus... Some Quake2 maps, that I made way back: http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/my-quake2-maps http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/my-quake2-maps

openbasic 8y ago
From my perspective, that odd lighting and tint is part of the aesthetic that makes it great. You can learn more about how the renderer works here: http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/quake2_software_renderer.php http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/quake2_software_renderer.ph... You can create your own palette using the included pcx2pal: https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/tools/pcx2pal/pcx2pal.c https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/too... After that, you might want to generate the colormap: https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/tools/colormap/colormap.c https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/too... If you enjoy the code of Q2, but also would like more modern rendering, I highly recommend quake2xp from Barnes: https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-2-xp https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-2-xp Yamagi is the gold standard for all Q2 engines: https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2 https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2 And some art help: http://maps.rcmd.org/tutorials/q2_palette_textures/ http://maps.rcmd.org/tutorials/q2_palette_textures/
openbasic 8y ago
Cool maps, btw. :)
farwind 8y ago
I think I remember playing these maps! (or else confusing my shades of grey) I'll need to boot up that computer and see if they're on there. I can't find the website I used to download maps and skins from. It must be gone by now.
lpcvoid 8y ago
I recall from somewhere that the team behind Carmack (Tom Hall, Romero, etc) chose the brown palette since it looked best within the theme, given the color constraints. I have no source, sadly.

openbasic 8y ago

From my perspective, that odd lighting and tint is part of the aesthetic that makes it great. You can learn more about how the renderer works here: http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/quake2_software_renderer.php http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/quake2_software_renderer.ph... You can create your own palette using the included pcx2pal: https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/tools/pcx2pal/pcx2pal.c https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/too... After that, you might want to generate the colormap: https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/tools/colormap/colormap.c https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/too... If you enjoy the code of Q2, but also would like more modern rendering, I highly recommend quake2xp from Barnes: https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-2-xp https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-2-xp Yamagi is the gold standard for all Q2 engines: https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2 https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2 And some art help: http://maps.rcmd.org/tutorials/q2_palette_textures/ http://maps.rcmd.org/tutorials/q2_palette_textures/

openbasic 8y ago

Cool maps, btw. :)

farwind 8y ago

I think I remember playing these maps! (or else confusing my shades of grey) I'll need to boot up that computer and see if they're on there. I can't find the website I used to download maps and skins from. It must be gone by now.

lpcvoid 8y ago

I recall from somewhere that the team behind Carmack (Tom Hall, Romero, etc) chose the brown palette since it looked best within the theme, given the color constraints. I have no source, sadly.