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It looks like pretty good progress! Are you going to be implementing the Quake Virtual Machine (QVM) architecture so that your engine can run the Quake 3 game

by gpcz 14y ago

It looks like pretty good progress! Are you going to be implementing the Quake Virtual Machine (QVM) architecture so that your engine can run the Quake 3 game and its mods?

Jeaye 14y ago
The goal is to create a Quake 3 like game, but with a destructible voxelized world (Ace of Spades doesn't do it for me). As you can see, and as others have commented, this is currently only a rough BSP renderer with almost-complete TTF rendering. Q3 is the inspiration, but my goal is for this is to be a different game.
- chipsy 14y ago
  If your goal is a voxelized world, what's your reasoning for starting with the Q3 BSP strategy, and not something more like Voxlap?
  - Jeaye 14y ago
    I went with BSP loading first because I'd like to voxelize arbitrary Q3 maps. It's planned to be a feature of the game to be able to load in any Q3 or QL map and be able to destroy it.
    - Scaevolus 14y ago
      Have you looked at how the Sauerbraten engine works?
      - Jeaye 14y ago
        I've not. I will though.
- Jayschwa 14y ago
  Any tips for rendering text? I'm doing a similar project for Quake 2 with Julia[1]. I haven't tackled text yet, but I probably will need to soon. [1]: https://github.com/jayschwa/Quake2.jl https://github.com/jayschwa/Quake2.jl
  - Jeaye 14y ago
    My TTF rendering code is based off the examples provided here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenGL_Programming http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenGL_Programming
  - georgemcbay 14y ago
    I highly recommend looking at signed distance maps for text rendering. Relatively easy to implement and gives very good results even when drastically scaling the text to different sizes. Potentially useful links: http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_... http://www.gamedev.net/topic/491938-signed-distance-bitmap-font-tool/ http://www.gamedev.net/topic/491938-signed-distance-bitmap-f... https://github.com/OpenGLInsights/OpenGLInsightsCode/tree/master/Chapter%2012%202D%20Shape%20Rendering%20by%20Distance%20Fields/demo https://github.com/OpenGLInsights/OpenGLInsightsCode/tree/ma...
- Noelkd 14y ago
  I will be keeping an eye on this for sure now.

by gpcz 14y ago

It looks like pretty good progress! Are you going to be implementing the Quake Virtual Machine (QVM) architecture so that your engine can run the Quake 3 game and its mods?

Jeaye 14y ago

The goal is to create a Quake 3 like game, but with a destructible voxelized world (Ace of Spades doesn't do it for me). As you can see, and as others have commented, this is currently only a rough BSP renderer with almost-complete TTF rendering. Q3 is the inspiration, but my goal is for this is to be a different game.

chipsy 14y ago
If your goal is a voxelized world, what's your reasoning for starting with the Q3 BSP strategy, and not something more like Voxlap?
- Jeaye 14y ago
  I went with BSP loading first because I'd like to voxelize arbitrary Q3 maps. It's planned to be a feature of the game to be able to load in any Q3 or QL map and be able to destroy it.
  - Scaevolus 14y ago
    Have you looked at how the Sauerbraten engine works?
    - Jeaye 14y ago
      I've not. I will though.
Jayschwa 14y ago
Any tips for rendering text? I'm doing a similar project for Quake 2 with Julia[1]. I haven't tackled text yet, but I probably will need to soon. [1]: https://github.com/jayschwa/Quake2.jl https://github.com/jayschwa/Quake2.jl
- Jeaye 14y ago
  My TTF rendering code is based off the examples provided here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenGL_Programming http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenGL_Programming
- georgemcbay 14y ago
  I highly recommend looking at signed distance maps for text rendering. Relatively easy to implement and gives very good results even when drastically scaling the text to different sizes. Potentially useful links: http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_... http://www.gamedev.net/topic/491938-signed-distance-bitmap-font-tool/ http://www.gamedev.net/topic/491938-signed-distance-bitmap-f... https://github.com/OpenGLInsights/OpenGLInsightsCode/tree/master/Chapter%2012%202D%20Shape%20Rendering%20by%20Distance%20Fields/demo https://github.com/OpenGLInsights/OpenGLInsightsCode/tree/ma...
Noelkd 14y ago
I will be keeping an eye on this for sure now.