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Started by Ainokea September 20, 2004 11:25 PM

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Ainokea

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September 20, 2004 11:25 PM

this thread made me want to start reading opensource games source code to learn things. So do you guy recommend any code to read?

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LessBread

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September 20, 2004 11:39 PM

There's always Quake ...

"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." - the Laughing Man

falkone

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September 20, 2004 11:39 PM

Look at Quake and Quake II. The guys at ID give you everything. The code itself isn't very clean and may not be the best way from a software engineering standpoint. For example, once I saw a function in Q2 that used a different coordinate system than the rest of the game. It mixed the order of a coordinate triplet (XYZ).. I don't know what the rest of the program did with that function, but it worked. No reason as to why it was written like that either. That's the beauty of it.. if you can figure out what ugly working code does, you can figure out what clean working code does.

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codemonster

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September 21, 2004 08:17 AM

here are a few links...

Catmother
Elite Force 2
RuneSword
OpenParsec
Duke Nukem 3D
Descent 1
Descent 2
...and, last but not least, Quake 1-3

Quake is always a good start... [smile]

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Anonymous

September 21, 2004 03:28 PM

Cool thanks.

Im the OP.

Boku San

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September 21, 2004 03:38 PM

Wowzers, I didn't know that EF2 was Open Source. Also, I'm not sure if it's been recommended yet (half-assed reading at work), but Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory seems very clean, and it's open source.

Things change.

Ravuya

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September 21, 2004 03:45 PM

Golgotha gives you a really good idea of how the file structure of a commercial product is put together. Some of the makefiles used are awfully Linux-centric but you should be able to get an idea.

Guimo

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September 21, 2004 04:23 PM

Hey, dont forget Microsoft 'Allegiance'...
http://research.microsoft.com/research/allegiance/

codemonster

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September 21, 2004 05:02 PM

Quote:Original post by Boku San
Also, I'm not sure if it's been recommended yet (half-assed reading at work), but Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory seems very clean, and it's open source.

ah, thanks [smile] i totally forgot about that!

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Clicky

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codemonster

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September 21, 2004 05:50 PM

and you probably want to check out this site. it's a small list of open sourced commercial games which includes direct downloads of games like Descent 1+2, No One Lives Forever, Quake 1-3, Abuse, Allegiance, Wolfenstein, Battle Of Britain, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Golgotha, Homeworld, Raven, Rise Of The Triad, Wolfenstein... this should keep everyone busy for a while [grin]

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