Quake engine
The Quake engine is the engine that runs Quake. It introduced true 3D realtime rendering and is licenced under the GPL. After release it immediately forked, as did the level design. Much of the engine remained in Quake II and Quake III. The quake engine, like Doom used Binary space partitioning. Quake also used Gouraud shading for moving objects, and a static lightmap for nonmoving objects. Quake was GPL'd in 1999 and lives on at QuakeForge.
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History
The Quake engine was created in 1996 for Quake. John Carmack did most of the programming of the engine. It later became upgraded to the Quake II Engine, then the Quake III and DOOM 3 Engines.
Derivative engines
On the 21st of December 1999, John Carmack of id software released the Quake engine source code on the internet under the terms of the GPL license, allowing programmers to edit the engine and add new features. Soon programmers were releasing new versions of the engine on the net. A few of the most known engines are:
- DarkPlaces - A popular and respected engine modification that adds realtime lighting and shadowing, quake3 BSP support, a completely new renderer, and many other features.
- Tenebrae - A very famous engine that received its fame with being the first to introduce realtime lighting and shadowing to the Quake engine.
- Telejano - This modification adds many more features and particle effects.
- Tomaz Quake - One of the first Quake engine modifications on the net.
- Twilight Engine - Fastest of the known Quake engines, this modification is more based on performance rather than extra features.
A few other Quake engines on the net are:
NetQuake - Single player, LAN and internet
- MHQuake
- QMB
- QuakeForge
- GQ
- Tenebrae2
- ProQuake
- NPRQuake
- CheapHack
- FitzQuake
- NetChild
- TTYQuake
- wmQuake
- NewWolf
- GlQuake For Mac
- D3DQuake
- QBism
QuakeWorld - Internet optimized Quake netcode flavour
- ezQuake
- FTEQuake
- FuhQuake
- KrimZoN QuakeWorld Client
- MoreQuakeWorld (MQWCL)
- QuakeForge
- [QuakeWorld Python]
- ZQuake
Dedicated Servers - Server only console applications
- The GeneBot Project
- CheapServ
- FTEServe
- DarkPlaces-dedicated
Dreamcast Quake - For the DC scene
- Titanium Port (QuakeDC)
- Bero Port (DCQuake)
External links
Games using the Quake engine
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