YAQ3R (Yet Another Quake 3 Renderer)

Functionally, it's pretty simple: just view a BSP map. This is really more of a project for educational/portfolio purposes than anything else.

Despite Quake III's file format being written circa 1999, and therefore being extremely old, a lot of techniques with respect to computer graphics and optimization can be harnessed through a project like this.

Current Focuses:

• Performance

  • Lots of unsightly code has passed through this repo.
  • It's definitely on its way to getting better.
  • It's improved significantly within the past month or so.

• WebGL support

  • It's much easier to show something off via the web.
  • Emscripten is fantastic.

• Effect Shaders

  • More Vertex deformations.
  • More Texcoord mod functions.
  • Skybox stuff.
  • Various other animations.

Examples

~200 FPS

~60 FPS

Resources

Github Projects

• https://github.com/rohitnirmal/q3-bsp-viewer?source=cc
• https://github.com/leezh/bspviewer
• https://github.com/toji/webgl-quake3
• https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena

Websites

• Paul's Projects: http://www.paulsprojects.net/opengl/q3bsp/q3bsp.html
• Unofficial Quake 3 Map Specs: http://www.mralligator.com/q3/
• Rendering Quake 3 Maps: http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/games/quake/quake3.html