Engine standards for mod compatibility

[leileilol]

[goldenboy]

[leileilol]

[mh]

[FrikaC]

[Baker]

[mh]

[mh]

[Downsider]

[leileilol]

[Downsider]

[goldenboy]

You are seriously suggesting that we come up with a new map format for this standard?

In addition to several engines implementing new software renderers with alpha support etc. from thin air?

Perhaps we should aim for something more realistic and push stuff like a new bsp format back to version 2.0 if there ever is one.

I'd rather see something less ambitious get done than something overly ambitious fail again.

Edit: I would think that external texture support, again, should be left to the individual engines instead of bloating this new standard.

[Downsider]

Hardly new, just modified a teensy bit, to remove a bit of redundancy and hard drive waste.

But I think we're getting away from the real discussion, is it really about eyecandy and new features or fixing the old ones? I think it's the latter. Eyecandy should be up to the engine dev.

[metlslime]

Regarding external textures, enhanced bsps....

I think the best chance of success would be to create a standard that is at least close to the current implementation of these features in most engines, rather than a re-invention. That way fewer engines have to change, and those that do will have a smaller change to make.

[MeTcHsteekle]

here's one that should be standard, being able to bring the text marker in the console backwards without DELETING EVERYTHING YOU JUST TYPED! AAAGGH ITS SO ANNOYING !!!~!