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The Quake II source code...
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I got bored and decided to browse the Quake II source code. However, it's massive and I was wondering if anyone here had seen any articles explaining it? I'm only asking because to fully understand it I'm going to map it, but if someone else has done this, it's sort of pointless me doing it again.
Also, I was looking through it and kept seeing "edict_t". I searched for it's definition, but could only find that of "edict_s". Does anyone know what this is? I'm gonna have to kidnap John Carmack and get him to explain it all to me
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In C you have to(well you don't have to but carmack does most of the time) declare structs like this
typedef struct foo
{
int bar;
} foobar;
When you want to create a variable that uses that struct type you declare it like this
foobar thing;
instead of having to have
struct foo thing;
Most probably somewhere in the q2 code you will find something looking like this
typedef struct edict_s
{
...
} edict_t
So basically edict_t is an edict_s struct typedef.
Of course I could be wrong it's just in c carmack(dunno if other people do it) has a habbit of suffixing all his struct typedefs with _t
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If you are gonna try and understand all the q2 code I highly reccomend a c documenter such as doxygen(may have got name wrong). It creates a load of HTML documents of the source code with everything cross referenced. If you want to know where a function or type is declared click it and you can find out.
[edited by - Monder on March 31, 2003 2:50:27 PM]
typedef struct foo
{
int bar;
} foobar;
When you want to create a variable that uses that struct type you declare it like this
foobar thing;
instead of having to have
struct foo thing;
Most probably somewhere in the q2 code you will find something looking like this
typedef struct edict_s
{
...
} edict_t
So basically edict_t is an edict_s struct typedef.
Of course I could be wrong it's just in c carmack(dunno if other people do it) has a habbit of suffixing all his struct typedefs with _t
[edit]
If you are gonna try and understand all the q2 code I highly reccomend a c documenter such as doxygen(may have got name wrong). It creates a load of HTML documents of the source code with everything cross referenced. If you want to know where a function or type is declared click it and you can find out.
[edited by - Monder on March 31, 2003 2:50:27 PM]
If your using the Q2 source then you might want to check out this site - it''s got tutorials on adding stuff and soem bug fixes for the engine - www.quakesrc.com
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Thanks for the replies. I''ve been looking a little more this morning, and stuff is starting to make sense. Another difficulty is that Carmack seems to be a veteran of the days when you could only use 8 characters for a variable name in C. I''ll look for Doxygen, it could be very helpful. Oh, the server must be down on www.quakesrc.com, because I couldn''t get to it...
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quote:Original post by Monder
Of course I could be wrong it''s just in c carmack(dunno if other people do it) has a habbit of suffixing all his struct typedefs with _t
Nope it''s not just a Carmack thing. Check MSDN for a list of <a href = "http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vclib/html/_CRT_Standard_Types.asp?frame=true">standard types</a>.
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quote:Original post by trubThanks, trub, it was quakesrc.org.
I think he meant quakesrc.org (not com)
I haven't seen that before, core. I usually define all my typedef structs like this:
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[edited by - iNsAn1tY on April 2, 2003 5:10:51 AM]
iNsAn1tY , aren''t Shadow''s searching for you ? Don''t u see nightmares at night ? Isn''t ur conscience guilty for something you didn''t do ? Don''t u scream about it ? WHERE IS A DOWNLOAD TO YOUR EDITOR ???
Cmmon man , release it - whatever it''s like .
Cmmon man , release it - whatever it''s like .
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OK, some explanation first. The version I'm working on now has had all it's code stripped out, and only two functions work (the arrow and the create object tool). I haven't been working on it much, as it's annoyed me and I have coursework for college. I'll resume it after my exams, and finish it. I need to, as I have to do demos for game company interviews. One of the other versions has some other functions working, but it's not in a workable condition right now.
Here is the new version (it's about 16KB): DarkVertex.zip
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[edited by - iNsAn1tY on April 2, 2003 4:44:11 PM]
Here is the new version (it's about 16KB): DarkVertex.zip
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[edited by - iNsAn1tY on April 2, 2003 4:44:11 PM]
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