1 DarkPlaces engine readme : updated 20040206
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3 About the DarkPlaces glquake engine:
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4 DarkPlaces engine was started because I was unsatisfied with the other engines
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5 available soon after the quake source release (which did little more than add
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6 some flashy effects), and craved modding features for my DarkPlaces mod, and
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7 wanted some real enhancements to the online gaming experience as well.
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9 DarkPlaces engine is the result, I hope everyone likes it.
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11 I am not very good at writing documentation, so this readme is organized as a
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12 feature list, with information on each feature, I hope it is still adequate
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15 Questions/comments/bugreports/suggestions?
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16 Send email to havoc@telefragged.com.
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21 Quake : -quake, this is active by default, gamedirs: id1
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22 Quake: Scourge of Armagon : -hipnotic or hipnotic in executable name or path, gamedirs: hipnotic, id1
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23 Quake: Dissolution of Eternity : -rogue or rogue in executable name or path, gamedirs: rogue, id1
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24 Nehahra : -nehahra or nehahra in executable name or path, gamedirs: nehahra, id1
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25 GoodVsBad2 : -goodvsbad2 or gvb2 in executable name or path, gamedirs: rts
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26 BattleMech : -battlemech or battlemech in executable name or path, gamedirs: base
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27 These games are considered officially supported, if any problems are seen,
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28 please make sure you are running the latest version of the game and engine,
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29 if you are, please report the problem.
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33 Future supported games:
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34 Nexuiz : -nexuiz or nexuiz in executable name or path, gamedirs: data
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35 Zymotic : -zymotic or zymotic in executable name or path, gamedirs: data
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36 Fniggium : -fniggium or fniggium in executable name or path, gamedirs: data
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37 Setheral : -setheral or setheral in executable name or path, gamedirs: data
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38 SonOfMan : -som or som in executable name or path, gamedirs: data
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39 These have incomplete support and will likely change before their release.
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44 Redesigned effects including smoke, blood, bubbles and explosions.
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45 Better looking dynamic lights.
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46 External texture support (see dpextensions.qc DP_GFX_EXTERNALTEXTURES)
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47 Realtime bumpmapped lighting/shadowing support (see r_shadow_help in game)
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48 .rtlights file support (improves performance/appearance of realtime lighting)
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49 .rtlights file editing (see r_editlights_help in game)
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50 Alpha blended sprites (instead of glquake's masked sprites).
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51 Interpolated entity movement and animations (both models and sprites).
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52 Overbright and fullbright support on walls and models (like winquake).
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53 Colormapping support on any q1 model (like winquake).
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54 Fog (set with "fog density red green blue" command)
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55 Skybox (loadsky "mtnsun_" will load "env/mtnsun_ft.tga" and so on).
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56 Sky rendering improved (no more glquake distortion).
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57 Sky polygons obscure geometry just like in winquake.
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58 Color calibration menu to ensure a proper Quake experience.
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59 Improved model lighting (directional shading).
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60 No messy .ms2 model mesh files (no glquake dir anymore either).
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61 New improved crosshair (team color coded).
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62 Improved image loading (smoother menus and such).
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63 Ability to disable particle effects (cl_particles* cvars).
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64 Decals (cl_decals cvar to enable).
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65 Stainmaps (cl_stainmap cvar to enable).
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66 Sorted transparent stuff to render better.
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67 Improved multitexture support (r_textureunits (1-4 supported), needs gl_combine 1 because of overbright)
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68 Improved chase cam (chase_active 1 no longer goes into walls)
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69 More configurable console background (scr_conalpha and scr_conbrightness)
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70 Optional fullbrights (r_fullbrights 0/1 followed by r_restart)
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71 Dynamic Farclip (no distance limits in huge maps)
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72 Improved gl_flashblend (now renders a corona instead of an ugly blob)
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73 DynamicLight coronas (more realism)
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74 Transparent statusbar (sbar_alpha) that does not block your view as much.
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75 No 8bit texture uploads (fixes 'green' walls in the distance).
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76 Fixed view blends (glquake was quite broken).
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81 -benchmark option to run automated timedemo benchmarks (-benchmark demo1 does +timedemo demo1 and quits immediately when finished)
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82 automatic timedemo logging to gamedir/benchmark.log
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83 Slightly improved aiming on quake servers (does not support proquake aiming).
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84 -sndspeed samplerate (default: 44100, quake used 11025)
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85 snd_swapstereo cvar (for people with backwards SB16 sound cards)
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86 Saves video settings to config and restores them properly
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87 Ability to change video settings during game (video options menu or vid_* cvars)
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89 Video Options, Color Control, and Effects Options menus added, and more options.
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90 Sends 20fps network packets to improve modem play instead of one per frame. (sys_ticrate controls network framerate)
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91 Allow skin colormaps 14 and 15 (freaky :)
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92 Longer chat messages.
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93 No more 72fps limit, host_maxfps lets you decide.
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94 Support for more mouse buttons (mouse1-mouse16, mwheelup/mwheeldown are aliases to mouse4 and mouse5).
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95 Server browser for public (sv_public 1) darkplaces servers.
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97 Server features: (Note server only supports darkplaces clients)
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98 More accurate movement and precise aiming.
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100 sv_cheats cvar controls cheats (no longer based on deathmatch).
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101 slowmo cvar controls game speed.
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102 No crash with the buggy 'teleport train' in shub's pit.
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103 Allow skin colormaps 14 and 15 (freaky :)
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104 sys_ticrate applies to listen (client) servers as well as dedicated.
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105 sv_public cvar to advertise to master server.
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108 HalfLife map support (place your HalfLife wads in quake/id1/textures/ or quake/MODDIR/textures/ as the maps need them)
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109 Larger q1 and hl map size of +-32768 units.
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110 Colored lighting (.lit support) for q1 maps.
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111 Q3 map support (no shaders though), with no limits.
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112 Q2 and Q3 model support, with greatly increased limits (256 skins, 65536 frames, 65536 vertices, 65536 triangles). (Note: md2 player models are not supported because they have no skin list)
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113 Optimized QuakeC interpreter so mods run faster.
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114 Bounds checking QuakeC interpreter so mods can't do naughty things with memory.
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115 Warnings for many common QuakeC errors.
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116 Unprecached models are now a warning (does not kill the server anymore).
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117 External texture support (see dpextensions.qc DP_GFX_EXTERNALTEXTURES).
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118 Fog ("fog" key in worldspawn, same parameters as fog command).
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119 .spr32 and halflife .spr sprites supported. (Use Krimzon's tool to make spr32, and lhfire can render directly to spr32, or just use replacement textures on .spr).
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120 Skybox ("sky" key in worldspawn, works like loadsky and quake2).
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121 Stereo wav sounds supported (note music easily uses over 50mb of memory!).
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122 Ogg Vorbis sounds supported (note music easily uses over 50mb of memory!).
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123 ATTN_NONE sounds are no longer directional (good for music).
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124 play2 sound testing command (ATTN_NONE variant of play).
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125 r_texturestats and memstats and memlist commands to give memory use info.
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126 Lighting on sprites (put ! anywhere in sprite filename to enable).
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127 More r_speeds info (now a transparent overlay instead of spewing to console).
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128 Supports rotating bmodels (use avelocity, and keep in mind the bmodel needs the "origin" key set to rotate, or in q3 maps an origin brush works).
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129 More sound channels.
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130 More dynamic lights (32 changed to 256).
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131 More precached models and sounds (256 changed to 4096).
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132 Many more features documented in dpextensions.qc. (bullet tracing on models, qc player input, etc)
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