Linguica Posted December 20, 2002 I see over on the 3DRealms forums that 3DRealms has released the source code to Rise of the Triad under the GPL. Only took them 8 or 9 years but hey, later is better than never. There's some comments on the source from Scott Miller and Tom Hall, and you can get the 4-meg source code here. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sporku Posted December 20, 2002 Hmm.. I don't know if anyone will make a source port for this game, but if someone by chance takes a job like that on, I'd be happy. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bloodshedder Posted December 20, 2002 WinROTT! ZROTT! ROTT Legacy! jROTT! 0 Share this post Link to post
Kaiser Posted December 20, 2002 and yet they still haven't released the source code to Blood... 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted December 20, 2002 Bloodshedder said:WinROTT! ZROTT! ROTT Legacy! jROTT! And BOTT and RBF (RoTTer's Best Friend) SMTU (Smack My Triad Up) ZRoTTGL, and name a few others. :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Ghostpilot Posted December 20, 2002 This is a great voctory indeed. But I would have been more happy for the sourcecode for Blood. 0 Share this post Link to post
zark Posted December 20, 2002 Deathman said:and yet they still haven't released the source code to Blood... ROTT = much older than Blood. 0 Share this post Link to post
Penguin Posted December 20, 2002 haha: "RoTTing Code" clever title :-] 0 Share this post Link to post
Martin Howe Posted December 20, 2002 Bloody sodding HELL! I'm not drunk, I haven't taken any drugs and I havent been clouted round the head by an angry cat. Therefore I am really reading this! BLOODY SODDING HELL! I never thought I'd see this day... ROTT source released, everyone thought it was lost. Had it for years and haven't played it yet :-) I got it from a junk shop in Hastings, UK for £5 and soon after upgraded to Win2K and then XP so couldn't play it. The sooner there is a source port the better :-) :-) 0 Share this post Link to post
Use Posted December 20, 2002 Pretty cool, I played ROTT on my old Pentium 90, and it was a fun game. At the time I hated the game because I thought it was in direct competition with Doom, but its engine is really a joke in comparison now that I look back on it. I knew someting was up when going through the maps I noticed the ceiling hieght never changed in levels, and even Doom's simple geometery is impossible, only columns and paper thin lines could be used in ROTT. Stupid. Reading the notes that came with the source cleared all that up. It really was a dumb idea to use a suped-up wolf engine when Doom so totally smoked it. i had no idea it was supposed to be a wolf sequel, I wonder why romero told them to knock it off, when initially everything looked good. Was really cracks me up is Tom Hall used some of that stupid garbage in the Doom bible for ROTT!~ 0 Share this post Link to post
Little Faith Posted December 20, 2002 I wish someone would implement different floor and ceiling heights in RoTT. Presently it seems to be a set value for each level. Actually I think different floor and ceiling heights are more important than non-orthogonal walls. 0 Share this post Link to post
Use Posted December 20, 2002 Little Faith said:Actually I think different floor and ceiling heights are more important than non-orthogonal walls. I agree completely. It would make the engine much more dynamic. You wouldn't have to use those rejected step sprites either. 0 Share this post Link to post
mewse Posted December 20, 2002 rott actually started out as a wolf3d sequel, and its engine is wolf3d heh 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted December 21, 2002 Use3D said:You wouldn't have to use those rejected step sprites either. Those GADS? Or is this something completely different? 0 Share this post Link to post
Ichor Posted December 21, 2002 And there was much rejoicing, yaaaaaaayyyy 0 Share this post Link to post
Kinsie Posted December 21, 2002 FOR THE LOVE OF WHOEVER SOMEONE DO A WINDOWS PORT! *disables capslock* 0 Share this post Link to post
Amaster Posted December 21, 2002 Heh, just yesterday I was thinking about RoTT and how I wished there was a windows port so I could play it on XP. Then I thought to myselelf "Nah, it'll never happen. I bet the source code is lost forever or something". true story. 0 Share this post Link to post
Wildman Posted December 21, 2002 My buddy and I played ROTT over the modem for hours and hours. The weapons were a blast and we couldn't get enough of it. I would love to see internet play implemented. Now, if I can just find my cd... 0 Share this post Link to post
UAC PR Dept Posted December 21, 2002 Fun game. Boring game. You should note that, despite engine and map "capabilities", ROTT could do things Doom still can't, like gibs, jumping, unlimited ammo, rocket jumping, enemies faking death, etc. Too bad it came out at a bad time. :[ 0 Share this post Link to post
dsm Posted December 21, 2002 UAC PR Dept said:Fun game. Boring game. You should note that, despite engine and map "capabilities", ROTT could do things Doom still can't, like gibs, jumping, unlimited ammo, rocket jumping, enemies faking death, etc. Too bad it came out at a bad time. :[ Those things are just gimmicks and don't really matter in the end (except jumping) - especially the unlimited ammunition part is lame. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted December 21, 2002 UAC PR Dept said:Fun game. Boring game. You should note that, despite engine and map "capabilities", ROTT could do things Doom still can't, like gibs, jumping, unlimited ammo, rocket jumping, enemies faking death, etc. Too bad it came out at a bad time. :[ realistic gibs = EDGE jumping = tons of ports infinite ammo = ZDoom rocket jumping = zdoom (sorta) enemies faking death = EDGE 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted December 21, 2002 BigBadGangsta said:realistic gibs = EDGE jumping = tons of ports infinite ammo = ZDoom rocket jumping = zdoom (sorta) enemies faking death = EDGE Yes, but all in one package? Nope. We do, however, have to remember that this a really old game. 0 Share this post Link to post
Wildman Posted December 21, 2002 UAC PR Dept said:Fun game. Boring game. I think this sums it up pretty well. The single player was quite repetitive, mainly due to the fact that it used a Wolf-like engine. The other elements of the game: weapon variety, jump pads, gads, rolling boulders, nice pick-up items and enemies were very well done. In multiplayer the game was top-notch. It ran very fast, the weapons and weapon effects were fun and the jump pads and gads added a lot to the muliplayer game. In fact the jump pads added a whole new stratey element to deathmatch. Too bad it took until Q3 before we saw them again. You also can't compare ROTT to ZDoom, Legacy or any other port. The ports are modifications and don't represent the original Doom game. Right now, ROTT is in its original state; hopefully we'll see some excellent efforts like we have seen with the Doom source. (There has been mention on the 3DR forums of using the Vavoom engine for ROTT.) 0 Share this post Link to post
Wildman Posted December 21, 2002 NiGHTMARE said:quote: Welcome back! Heh. Thanks. I also forgot to add to the feature list: fire traps, spinning (and movable) blades, shootable windows and movable wall sections (ala, Hexen polyobjects). 0 Share this post Link to post
Ichor Posted December 21, 2002 And then there's the skies, and the fact that you can fall off the map (of course, you would die immediately). 0 Share this post Link to post
Little Faith Posted December 21, 2002 Doom: Stuff could move up and down, but not to the sides. RoTT: Stuff could move to the sides, but not up and down. 0 Share this post Link to post