Doom 3 engine release and game code

[revelator]

darkradiant ofc

hmm plenty possibilities QT which resembles MFC but can handle more complex operations and is availiable on both win32 and linux, gtk also works on windows but its a bit more painfull to use.
personally id prefer tools in QT but thats just me.

Hmm the game dll seems to have some problems building "unable to load default.cfg" i tried moving it into a subfolder named base with the built doom3.exe but still fails so something is acting up.

[Jok3r098]

[mh]

Hmm, well I've recreated the Reverse using two-sided stencil and it works perfectly, but I'm thinking that treading carefully is a better option. I'm certain that if there was an alternate way that could do it in one pass, and that didn't have patent heebeegeebies attached, JC would have included it in the released code. The two pass alternative (assuming you use two-sided stencil; 4-pass if not) only kicks in when the viewpoint is inside a shadow volume, so it's not really that big a deal to begin with.

[New Horizon]

[r00k]

[Spike]

shadow mapping has no patents that I am aware of.

[Jok3r098]

Does the engine have a built in light baking system or is it all stencil shadows.

[revelator]

[revelator]

Hmm comes to mind several z-fail methods existed in the old tenebrae2 source (one for each card type if i remember correctly) we might end up making the code faster than it was to start with

ofc plenty new stuff that might work better.

[mh]

Interestingly, the Reverse patent is probably unenforcable in the EU. Anybody fancy being a test case?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_p ... Convention

[revelator]

well im in the EU so if you like sure

[mh]

[revelator]

gonna try it out ill report back.

[mh]

Just re-read the Creative patent; it seems as though this kind of depth-test inversion was what the patent specifically referred to, so it's not safe to use. It does mean that their claim with reference to the Doom 3 method (zfail) seems to be on somewhat shakier grounds though.

[raynorpat]

Working on a GLSL backend:



btw, has anyone checked out draw_exp.cpp?