Quake 3 Souce Code Released

[Snarboo]

Planet Quake, Game Spot, 3D Gamers and a few other places have just reported that the Quake 3 source code has been released. My estimate until someone adds bump-mapping to the Quake 3 engine: about 1 to 2 months.

[Jehar]

THAT is pretty fucking cool.
Sure to be all sorts of interesting shit now.

[Bucket]

I was wondering why no one said anything. This happened about a week ago.

[david_a]

Numbermind said:

I was wondering why no one said anything. This happened about a week ago.

No, it didn't. Carmack said the release was "imminent" a week ago.

It'll be interesting to see if the Quake 3 mods will be better than Quake 4's deathmatch, since by judging from the videos it's just Q3 in the Doom3 engine.

[ducon]

Talk about that? But why is it a Windows executable and not a zip file? ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/source/
EDIT: No, here, here and here.

[leileilol]

I got it to compile in msvc++6 after 10 minutes of it's release and i've already prepared something for it

[Scuba Steve]

Does it involve homosexual Gargoyles?

[Technician]

Thats pretty cool gargoylol

[Ichor]

I'd rather have the Blood source code.

[Hobbs]

Ichor said:

I'd rather have the Blood source code.

So would I. However, I doubt its coming along anytime really soon, what with Monoliths attitude about it.

[insertwackynamehere]

gargoylol said:

I got it to compile in msvc++6 after 10 minutes of it's release and i've already prepared something for it

heh cool tron :)

[iori]

HobbsTiger1 said:

So would I. However, I doubt its coming along anytime really soon, what with Monoliths attitude about it.

Monolith doesn't own the code, GT -> Infogrames -> Atari did/does. And it's their policy not to release sources.

[Hobbs]

What the fuck? Monolith developed the goddamn thing. Anyway, I know Ataris policy, and if thats the case, oh well. I mean, it's not like people don't have the beta source code for it (I have it myself), but nobodys going to use it because of legal issues.

[Naked Snake]

Snarboo said:

[My estimate until someone adds bump-mapping to the Quake 3 engine: about 1 to 2 months.

I think it will only take a few weeks. The actual creation of bumpmaps however, would take longer.

[wildweasel]

Unless they did what that guy who made the Hexen high-res texture pack did and just generate all the bumpmaps in Photoshop.

[leileilol]

WildWeasel said:

Unless they did what that guy who made the Hexen high-res texture pack did and just generate all the bumpmaps in Photoshop.

eww those aren't bumpmaps those are lame photoshop light filters