Quake 1, 2 and 3 support for idTech4A++

Alex3474247 commented 9 months ago

There was the source ports for Quake 1, 2 and 3 ports made by the same author, n0n3m4: qi4a, qii4a and qiii4a (and even rtcw4a). I think that if these source ports code is almost the same, made according to a template, is it planned to backport those Quakes to idTech4A++? To have a modern, non-proprietary, opensource ports of previous Quakes with an external wireless keyboard/mouse support.

ninjapro2828 commented 8 months ago

I don't think it wills support quake 2 or 3 on higher phones,only quake 1 will work.

Alex3474247 commented 7 months ago

It will be good if even quake 1 will be supported.

DI555 commented 5 months ago

i suppose, it’s called a Quake1/2/3 WRAPPER ..

Alex3474247 commented 5 months ago

Yeah, a wrapper and launcher for Q1/2/3, maybe. I advice you to select which way is less difficult: adapt the latest FTEQW (https://github.com/fte-team/fteqw) using the FTEDroid source code or use the existing qi4a, qii4a, qiii4a sources and update the old launcher source and engine source versions: n0n3m4 used Darkplaces for Q1, yamagi Quake2 and ioquake3 engine.

DI555 commented 5 months ago

Alex3474247 , as i know, the "generation" of an engine is the main thing which can handle/support several types of its.. ..i mean modified idTech3 engine could handle idTech2, idTech and even Quake engines, like in a project that you mentioned..

but, idtech4 is a much next level one.. ..so, may be we should ask the respected Dev. to support idTech5 and idTech6 maps/games/mods in the engine!!! ..and that would be truelly great, because John Karmak didn’t opened idTech5/6 due to selling it’s company and coming out((.., but , yes, he promised us to do that !! and yes, idTech5/6 is based aik on idTech4!

Alex3474247 commented 2 months ago

This issue is 75% complete, I still want Quake 1 with Nehahra mod support of course. And optionally, the gzdoom engine, but it is not idTech engine already.

Alex3474247 commented 2 months ago

I have noticed that Nehahra support in Darkplaces is incomplete, some features are missing: r_waterripple (see the Nehahra settings), r_oldsky, playmod and stopmod commands - they are used to play and stop the dynamic music of Nehahra in the "mods" subdir of Nehahra, some .xm and .s3m files are located here, it is music. And to check how the gl_fogred, gl_foggreen and gl_fogblue cvars are working. And Nehahra should be enabled not by -game nehahra commandline param, but just -nehahra. Nehahra settings: Water ripple: fog: some fog gl_foggreen around the Quad Damage item: gl_foggreen working - gl_foggreen, it should look like in this picture. I have the copy of Nehahra engine source, NehQuake, maybe it is possible to add these new commands to Darkplaces, search them in NehQuake code. Test video with dynamic music: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xjb-SZJCdZUPsz5KPkjYccovHCXXmPe4/view Nehahra is basically a WinQuake 1.09 engine, you can see it in the console, with some changes. If you finish Nehahra support in Darkplaces, it will be great! Additional pictures from Darkplaces to Nehahra. You can see those "unknown command" messages, those are the unsupported features from Nehahra: Screenshot_20240501_114128_com karin idTech4Amm Screenshot_20240501_114211_com karin idTech4Amm I use the libxmp library to decode the .xm and .s3m files to wave data and play this wave data with SDL 2.0. Maybe there is another way to play those music files through oboe and libxmp, but I don't know, selected this way. No need to convert those .xm and .s3m files to mp3 and play mp3 manually through the console, it should be as in original Nehahra engine.