Software erosion: It seems that what happened to Quake codebase has started to happen with Quake 2: You cannot open the workspace Installed Direct3D SDK and Microsoft SDK (for MFC) and the thing compiled fine. Note 2: Building failed at first because of DirectX header missing:įatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'dsound.h': No such file or directory Note : 'ctf' and 'game' projects overwrite each other, more about this later. Here is a summary of the building targets: Projects This is because Quake2 is designed to be modular (I will detail this later).

The first striking thing is that the Visual Studio 6 workspace is not made of one project but five. The project can be opened with Visual Studio Express 2008, also available for free on Microsoft website. The source code is available for free on id software ftp website. EDIT (Oct 11,2011): Wow, 120,000 hits, 75,000 readers and a lot of kind comments/emails: Thanks guys ) ! First contact and compiling Quake 2 Source Code Review 1/4 (Intro) Quake 2 Source Code Review 2/4 (Polymorphism) Quake 2 Source Code Review 3/4 (Software Renderer) Quake 2 Source Code Review 4/4 (OpenGL Renderer) EDIT : Seems this article inspired someone at since they just wrote an article 'John Carmack coded Quake on a 28-inch 16:9 1080p monitor in 1995' ( mirror). Publish my raw ASCII notes in the future (I am thinking of Quake3 and Doom3 source), let me know what you think. In the end I am not sure it was worth it and I may just I got a bit carried away with the 'cleanup' process since there is more thanĤ0MB of videos,screenshots and drawings in this article. Marking the gaming industry's departure from software/8bits color system to hardware/24bits color system that occured around 1997.įor all those reasons, I highly recommend anyone that appreciate programming to dive into it.Īs usual I took numerous notes, cleaned them up and publish them as it may

Popular (in term of licensing) 3D engine of all time. In a lot of regards Quake II is a shining piece of software history since it is the most The way modularity was achieved even though the C programming language doesn't feature polymorphism was especially

Quake World and QuakeGL into one beautiful code architecture. It was a wonderful learning experience since one major improvement in idTech3 engine was to unify Quake 1, I spent about a month in my spare time reading the source code of Quake II. September 16th, 2011 Quake 2 Source Code Review 1/4

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