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The 'agreed upon standard' also doesn't include floating point coords, nor Hammer's texture planes stuff.
Writing out By all means only use quotes when they're actually needed (yay for smaller file sizes), but do make sure they're used when they ARE needed, because writing out a file that can only be read by your own program is muuuuch better than writing out a file that can be read by nothing. The times when you NEED quotes are: empty texture string. texture name contains spaces / other whitespace. texture name contains chars that an unofficial parser may consider to be punctuation. texture name contains non-ascii chars Also, I wouldn't call QBSP's parser bad, I'd much rather call it simple. And by simple, I mean that its tokenizer is consistent and predictable. That said, showing exactly what weirdness you can throw at it is fun, as well as a possible way to hide other optional extensions (without needing the qbsp to write out multiple copies of the same texture). "why re-write an engine rather than contributing to an existing engine? [�] Unless you want a bare-bones engine. In which case, yeah, go nuts."
I want to learn how the whole engine works, and the best way to do so is by rewriting it. I will never accept that I can't fully learn how it works. If Carmack created it all almost alone, then it's humanly possible. All my life I've been taught that I should give up and get an uninspired job where I do nothing but follow orders. I refuse to not study and I refuse to not be creative. I may only switch to another engine when I finish learning this one. I refuse to give up. Carmack is kind of an exceptional individual, but more power to you. Doing it yourself is very rewarding.
If Carmack created it all almost alone, then it's humanly possible.
Way to go assuming Carmack is human. For a hobby project. Doesn't mean you can't get a job that pays the bills though.
Writing a game engine from scratch - nothing stops you from trying to get it greenlit.
that's awesome.
Do us a favor, if you make a new map format, document and comment the hell out of your code so that others can implement it in their own engine too :) SleepwalkR: I do have a full time job. The payment is low, but it's almost stress-free and gives me free time to study.
ijed: There are some plans for a commercial release using it. Shamblernaut: Sure! Lunaran: Yes, and I've already beaten some of his contributions. My particle drawing code is faster than his x86 ASM code, and my Z-buffer drawing code in C is as fast as his x86 ASM code. I like the challenge of optimizing the software renderer. There's a lot more to a game engine than the renderer. Don't pat yourself on the back too hard JUST yet. :)
Great stuff! I'd recommend posting over at the vogons, there are some super smart and retro affine people there.
keep a hold on me!
That thing looks great.
Also, somebody should tell the second Orbb that his RL is backwards. I know, have another look, I changed the pic.
It was quiet a lot of work to get the both parts together, when I saw too late how the launcher is placed. Open for command, please hit me, before these beastards do! how the ogre holds a nail gun, yet shoots grenades.
I once modded them to shoot nails. Ruined the ogre experience. Always felt like he should have had a sack of grenades that he reached into to throw. Mini shub was born while I played OneDarkNight and the Old One wouldn't let me win that tiny orbit.
So I painted my eyes and received a blind spot from the rocket of this creep. Bender is there to steal fried schrimps of Scampy and he sure jumps the gun with his shiny ass! Much fun to meet a monster that doesn't do what you expect. I'll never cured from chaotic after QuakeTest'96.
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