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Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Lee_Stricklin - 07-13-2010
It will be using Cry Engine 3. Ill***ic just confirmed this on Facebook. They changed the engine, why they don't change the name is beyond me.
http://www.qj.net/qjnet/news/nexuiz-console-released-will-be-powered-by-cryengine-3.html
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Cuinnton - 07-14-2010
wow what does this mean?
Is this good or bad for us? Will engine development slow down?
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Slup - 07-14-2010
no idea :o
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Lee_Stricklin - 07-14-2010
I imagine it may, I bet half the reason for the switch was the controversy over potential GPL code. Either way, it won't slow Xonotic down at least I don't think it will since it is being developed with DarkPlaces current limitations in mind.
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Halogene - 07-14-2010
But I figure Lord Havoc won't have any pressure anymore to implement some of the improvements into the darkplaces engine that were intended and required for the Illfonic console thingy. So in a way, I guess, this will slow down engine development indirectly.
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Exitium - 07-14-2010
Seriously, I wtf'ed.
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Rad Ished - 07-14-2010
Hmmm, they already paid for Dark Places didn't they? is this good business? does a monkey eat peanuts? are clams good in chowder?
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Halogene - 07-14-2010
It depends.
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - pyr0 - 07-14-2010
Wasn't there any "give backs" to the community?
If they are now using the Cry Engine instead of the Darkplaces Engine there will be no codepieces for the community...
EDIT: Sorry for my bad english. Maybe I should use google translate instead.
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - IDWMaster - 07-14-2010
Why settle for limitations of the engine; when we could improve it? Darkplaces is open-source; so rather than wish we had a better engine, we could create our own branch of Darkplaces, and this could greatly improve the quality of the game!
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Halogene - 07-14-2010
... and who is supposed to do that? :o?
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Roanoke - 07-14-2010
(07-14-2010, 09:52 AM)pyr0 Wrote: Wasn't there any "give backs" to the community?Nope, it was explicitly said that there would be no contributions to darkplaces, iirc.
If they are now using the Cry Engine instead of the Darkplaces Engine there will be no codepieces for the community...
(07-14-2010, 09:58 AM)IDWMaster Wrote: Why settle for limitations of the engine; when we could improve it? Darkplaces is open-source; so rather than wish we had a better engine, we could create our own branch of Darkplaces, and this could greatly improve the quality of the game!Because maintaining an engine takes a team. Best approach is to just make modifications/patches and submit them to the DP team for committing.
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - IDWMaster - 07-14-2010
(07-14-2010, 12:04 PM)Roanoke Wrote:Great idea! Who's going to make the patches?(07-14-2010, 09:52 AM)pyr0 Wrote: Wasn't there any "give backs" to the community?Nope, it was explicitly said that there would be no contributions to darkplaces, iirc.
If they are now using the Cry Engine instead of the Darkplaces Engine there will be no codepieces for the community...
(07-14-2010, 09:58 AM)IDWMaster Wrote: Why settle for limitations of the engine; when we could improve it? Darkplaces is open-source; so rather than wish we had a better engine, we could create our own branch of Darkplaces, and this could greatly improve the quality of the game!Because maintaining an engine takes a team. Best approach is to just make modifications/patches and submit them to the DP team for committing.
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Roanoke - 07-14-2010
Whoever decides they want to change the engine somehow and knows how to write whatever the engine is written in (C, is it?)
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - rainerzufalldererste - 07-22-2010
I think it's written in C or C++! All those good 3d things are written in C-Languages!
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Blub - 07-23-2010
This basically means that the ONLY thing they took from us was the name and the logo.
Nothing else.
This makes... so much nonsense...
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - Roanoke - 07-23-2010
The name, which is a typo.
RE: Fee Nex is NOT using Dark Places engine - tux9656 - 07-23-2010
It's starting to seem like the console version of Nexuiz has real potential to become great vaporware.