Quake3e

This is a modern Quake III Arena engine aimed to be fast, secure and compatible with all existing Q3A mods. It is based on last non-SDL source dump of ioquake3 with latest upstream fixes applied.

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This repository does not contain any game content so in order to play you must copy the resulting binaries into your existing Quake III Arena installation

Key features:

optimized OpenGL renderer
optimized Vulkan renderer
raw mouse input support, enabled automatically instead of DirectInput(\in_mouse 1) if available
unlagged mouse events processing, can be reverted by setting \in_lagged 1
\in_minimize - hotkey for minimize/restore main window (win32-only, direct replacement for Q3Minimizer)
\video-pipe - to use external ffmpeg binary as an encoder for better quality and smaller output files
significally reworked QVM (Quake Virtual Machine)
improved server-side DoS protection, much reduced memory usage
raised filesystem limits (up to 20,000 maps can be handled in a single directory)
reworked Zone memory allocator, no more out-of-memory errors
non-intrusive support for SDL2 backend (video, audio, input), selectable at compile time
tons of bug fixes and other improvements

Vulkan renderer

Based on Quake-III-Arena-Kenny-Edition with many additions:

high-quality per-pixel dynamic lighting
very fast flares (\r_flares 1)
anisotropic filtering (\r_ext_texture_filter_anisotropic)
greatly reduced API overhead (call/dispatch ratio)
flexible vertex buffer memory management to allow loading huge maps
multiple command buffers to reduce processing bottlenecks
reversed depth buffer to eliminate z-fighting on big maps
merged lightmaps (atlases)
multitexturing optimizations
static world surfaces cached in VBO (\r_vbo 1)
useful debug markers for tools like RenderDoc
fixed framebuffer corruption on some Intel iGPUs
offscreen rendering, enabled with \r_fbo 1, all following requires it enabled:
screenMap texture rendering - to create realistic environment reflections
multisample anti-aliasing (\r_ext_multisample)
supersample anti-aliasing (\r_ext_supersample)
per-window gamma-correction which is important for screen-capture tools like OBS
you can minimize game window any time during \video|\video-pipe recording
high dynamic range render targets (\r_hdr 1) to avoid color banding
bloom post-processing effect
arbitrary resolution rendering
greyscale mode

In general, not counting offscreen rendering features you might expect from 10% to 200%+ FPS increase comparing to KE's original version

Highly recommended to use on modern systems

OpenGL renderer

Based on classic OpenGL renderers from idq3/ioquake3/cnq3/openarena, features:

OpenGL 1.1 compatible, uses features from newer versions whenever available
high-quality per-pixel dynamic lighting, can be triggered by \r_dlightMode cvar
merged lightmaps (atlases)
static world surfaces cached in VBO (\r_vbo 1)
all set of offscreen rendering features mentioned in Vulkan renderer, plus:
bloom reflection post-processing effect

Performance is usually greater or equal to other opengl1 renderers

OpenGL2 renderer

Original ioquake3 renderer, performance is very poor on non-nvidia systems, unmaintained

Build Instructions

Contacts

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