Quake Video Code Rant

by **Ranger366** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:40 pm

Well, some stuff only looks good in software rendering.
In GLQuake or GLProQuake it looks like crap (no fullbright?).
Again, thanks leileilol for Engoo.

by **Baker** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:09 pm

by **leileilol** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:41 pm

by **Sajt** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:28 am

Argh. I was 90% finished implementing lightgrid into hmap2 and darkplaces a few years ago, but never finished it. (They were stored in an external file.) It all worked except I didn't quite figure out the best algorithm for calculating the light position of a cell, especially if it straddles a wall and two separate rooms. It's worth noting that Quake maps are usually a lot more compact (e.g. thin floors with room below) than Quake3 maps, so maybe the huge lightgrid size of Q3 is inappropriate for Quake.

by **revelator** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:39 pm

by **dreadlorde** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:03 am

by **Baker** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:46 pm

by **Baker** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:57 pm

by **metlslime** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:59 pm

by mh » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:44 pm

by **metlslime** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:35 am

I meant a single display. If your desktop is > 2:1 with multiple monitors (e.g. EyeFinity), this code would successfully detect that.

Of course with 3 monitors it will fail to pick an acceptable window position

It would also fail to detect two vertical monitors (popular among coders) and various other configurations.

by **Baker** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:49 am

by **metlslime** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:48 am

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