" Anything Epic releases to open source becomes free software. We won't "sell" the Linux port just as you are not allowed to "sell" a derivative.

Once I get everything together (tomorrow probably, Tim is here but I'm pretty tired) I'll upload a simple tarball release so people can start playing around. Then I'll work on learning rcs and get that set up. "

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" Version 0.95 is here with new features like reflective recursive mirrors, portals, refractions, magnifiers , multipass textures etc. We have also improved the IRMA CAT technique even further... "

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" I have seen the 2D effect of "Glow" in many places but I do not understand how to achieve this effect. In particular I would like to have the particles in a particle engine "glow" as they are emitted from a ships engine. Is there a trick or a formula to this or do you simply create the appropriate bitmaps in your favorite graphics package and display them in sequence? "

" I'm back from visting relatives and I've been rolling on the Linux open source stuff. I've got my project approved with Source Forge. Once I get everything set up, I'll announce the URL but I'm sure the sneaky will be able to find the page.

I've chosen the Artistic License. I feel that it allows mod developers a lot of freedom with the open code, while not putting Epic into any weird positions with the undisclosed part of the engine. "

" Well I've been messing around with diffusable gas-nets; I've coded in the system described in this paper over at the diffusable gas-nets home page, with a few small modifications. One of the cool things described in this paper is how every property of the net is defined in terms of neurons - there is no synapse/connection weight matrix. "

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" GameFrame for Java is a simple game programming library that by abstracting the used engines in a way that allows some platforms to use native implementations (such as SVGALib on Linux, DirectX on Win32) that enhance the gamers experience somehow. An engine in this context means a class or collection of classes that offer some specific functionality for the programmer e.g. graphics engine offers graphics related functionality, sound engine offers sound related functionality. "

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" A new version of FMOD is here..(3.1) As FMOD 3.0 was an initial release, this version is mainly cleanups, small additions requested by users and bugfixes after being tested on so many weird and wacky machines. "

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" The Orthogonal Illumination Mapping (OIM) technique presented back in August has been extended to support multiple light light sources with ambient, diffuse, and specular terms. Local light source and viewer are now supported also. Two Win32 demo programs are available now (one using no extensions and one using GeForce extensions), and an OpenGL.org article describing the technique is in the works. "

" Pingus is a free Lemmings clone for Linux, a Windows port is also available, covered under the GPL. Pingus uses ClanLib, which should make it portable over a lot of operating, including Beos, BSD, Windows and some more. Pingus is developed under Linux and was never tested under one of the other OS's. If you want to get it working under some of the other mentioned operating systems, you have to get sources. It should be mainly just a recompile. "

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" I am releasing this beta version of the Direct X Blitz Engine to test for compatibility. The feature list is exactly the same as the OpenGL Version of the Blitz Engine (ie, Dynamic Shadowing, Curved Surfaces, Volumetric Fogging). Presently the demo will use the first hardware accelerator it finds in your system and will not use multitexturing or mip-mapping. "

" I'm announcing the release of Aftershock version 0.1 -- an open source (GPL) OpenGL based Quake3Arena-like rendering engine for Linux/i386 and Windows. Aftershock reads map info directly from the Q3A .pk3 files. Features include shader support, multipass rendering (e.g. lightmaps), animations, curved surfaces, MD3 model drawing, and skybox drawing. Aftershock is also great for Q3A mod developers that want to learn more about file formats and game structure. "

" GTS stands for the GNU Triangulated Surface Library. It is an Open Source Free Software Library intended to provide a set of useful functions to deal with 3D surfaces meshed with interconnected triangles. The source code is available free of charge under the Free Software LGPL license. "

" It is a Provable Reconstructor being written in C/C++. It will be a Free Software and is being developed on Irix, Linux and NT concurrently. Compilers that are being used on these platforms are SGI MIPS CC/c, gnu g++/gcc and Microsoft's VC++ 6 Profess. edition respectively. The first release should run on all these platforms. "

" Here's another shot from the engine, this time embedded in the garden design application (a Delphi app). As you can see, our 'artists' have a bit of trouble determining a realistic workload for the engine. :) This scene was rendered in 6 seconds on a P166 with 32Mb of ram (no swapping, by the way). It consists of 4000 alphakeyed trees... Every screenpixel is drawn approximately 10 times (you can't even see the floor surface), so that's a lot of alpha key tests and z-buffer tests... Luckily this scene for some reason performs a lot better on a PII/266: About 1 fps. That's not too shabby, IMO. :)

Anyway, cool thing about this shot is the integration of the engine with a Delphi host application. Rendering to a window is something that is a bit harder to do with a random 3D accelerator. Also cool is the new 'billboard' polygon type that we implemented: As you can see, our billboards do face the camera over the y-axis, but all other axes are free. That results in realistically oriented trees at the edges of the images.

Greets
Jacco & Jaap. "

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" This is the fastest and most powerful way to create your own first-person adventure games. In a few mouse clicks you can create interactive paths in the most strange places. You can easily import pictures from any source (drawing programs, digital cameras, scanners...) and use them as backgrounds for your worlds. You can add sounds, videos, timers, variables... You can create switches, enigmas, objects to be picked up, and much more.. and generate impressive adventure games, the quality of which will grow with your experience, reaching eventually the beauty of games as Myst or Riven. "

" I have set up a comprehensive Q1 source code tutorial for people who would like to compile the .s/.asm files in yesterday's release. I have also added the source code which makes Quake1 have the asynchronous frame interpolation, which is similar to Quake2's frame interpolation. "

" PECompact is a utility that compresses Windows 9x/NT4/w2k executables, while leaving them completely functional. PECompact compresses the code, data, selected resources, and import/export table of a win32 executable and optimizes its structure. It then installs a symbiote which decompresses the executable at run-time without any noticeable speed difference. Load time can actually be improved in some cases because less data is required to be retrieved from the disk or network. "

" The Golden Gate Game Company located in San Francisco, California is looking for a programmer with C++ and Direct 3D experience. Game industry experience is not necessary, but experience writing a program in Direct 3D is required. The project is a RPG for the Sega Dreamcast. Please contact jobs@gggc.com. "

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" Any good high detailed character animation requires its primitives to be transformed by different matrixes. I, for example, made a system that uses up to 4 matrixes for one bone (interpolated by rotation), and Bézier surfaces for a human body. This works good - every possible pose looks very natural.

Now the problem: OpenGL only supports 1 Matrix (2 in the case of NVidia's vertex weighting), so no hardware T&L is possible :-( DirectX supports 4 Matrixes, which may be enough by using triangles and weighting, but I say: "triangles sucks!". "

" We (guys from E-mersion Project) are looking for a tools-programmer. Because the project is unfunded, the person will not get paid, but will work with some very dedicated people who love what they're doing. More info can be found on www.connectii.net/emersion. "

" How does Future Crew, just like any demo group and game programmers embed data into exe, making the only thing your run is an .exe. How they put music and graphic into exe.

Okay , you can put *.bmp into exe using resources within Visual C++ 6.0 But how about *.mod files or *.st3 files? And how to use it with procedure that requires a filename such as LoadSong(CString szfilename) Does FILE is a handle to array of byte? "

" The Q3 game source code is getting pushed back a bit because we had to do some rearranging in the current codebase to facilitate the release, and we don't want to release in-progress code before the official binary point release. "

" This is the complete source code for winquake, glquake, quakeworld, and glquakeworld.

The projects have been tested with visual C++ 6.0, but masm is also required to build the assembly language files. It is possible to change a #define and build with only C code, but the software rendering versions lose almost half its speed. The OpenGL versions will not be effected very much. The gas2masm tool was created to allow us to use the same source for the dos, linux, and windows versions, but I don't really recommend anyone mess with the asm code.

The original dos version of Quake should also be buildable from these sources, but we didn't bother trying.

The code is all licensed under the terms of the GPL (gnu public license). You should read the entire license, but the gist of it is that you can do anything you want with the code, including sell your new version. The catch is that if you distribute new binary versions, you are required to make the entire source code available for free to everyone. "

" I'm working on creating a CRPG tile based engine like the one used in Final Fantasy 3 (FF6j). So far, I have the tile structures and renderer *mostly* complete, but I'm still looking for ANY information regarding other problems I've been having:

Creating a map editor!! One that handles tileset files and events.

Getting started in creating script/event engine/editor

Working up a good tileset file structure

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" Quake 3 Arena has yet to be released. Once the commercial release occurs the source code should follow hot on its heels. From this point the Quake 3 Arena coding will begin as will the updates to this portion of the site. Until then, familiarize yourself with ANSI C, the programming language used to code Quake 3 Arena. "

" We have released one of the last versions of the pre-1.00 series. Many things got fixed, and a few "it is a must for 1.00"-features have been added. Changes include:

- bugfixes for "open" levels (works finally)
- AI fixes
- level selection is now saved
- option for random player positions added (enabled by default)
- new and improved levels
- various other (minor) Changes (see ChangeLog) "

" This is a shot from our 3D engine that we are developing here at Davilex, for a garden design application. Note that this is pure software rendering, running at approx. 10 fps on a P2/300 at 640x480x32. Jaap coded an awesome perspective corrected bilinear filtered shaded texturemapper that is barely slower than a plain perspective mapper. We're quite proud of this baby. "