Quake3 Source code released...

[iori]

... could it (http://trevp.dyndns.org/stuff/quake3-1.32b-source.zip) benefit legacy in some way?

[DaniJ]

Possibly, possibly not. I've downloaded it myself, mostly for educational purposes.

As you might expect - much of it (especially in the rendering department) is very, very different from the Doom engine.

[Exl]

If modern engines were like Doom's we'd still be stuck with graphics the quality of a kitten squashed in a box.

[+Acyclitor+]

well its fun to think of features from Quake 3 that would be cool in Doom... i would say Beziere (sp?) curves. don't know how the hell it would work, but that isn't the point.

[rustyslacker]

porting doom to quake3 engine would be cool.

[Boingo the Clown]

What would most benefit Legacy would probably be the net code used by Q3. That's the kind of thing one should be looking at.

[+Acyclitor+]

porting doom to quake3 engine would be cool.big difference between porting and remaking.

[MR_ROCKET]

Agrees with Boingo and Exl in a morbid kinda way.

[smite-meister]

For the new netcode we are currently using the OpenTNL library, which is basically the netcode
Tribes 1/2 used. Should be quite good, when we get it working.
I guess Hurdler might be interested in looking how they did certain cool renderer effects.
Bézier surfaces aren't really hard to render, but they require a new map construct and new collision routines.

[Danimetal]

Just as the forbidden S****s word do. A new map format is like, somewhat, reformatting Doom.

[MR_ROCKET]

As long as legacy still flows like hot butter on ice then most of us should still be happy :P
meaning if it plays as good as it would if all clients had a 30 ping.