3DGE
| 3DGE, Hyper3DGE, Dream3DGE | |
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| Codebase | EDGE |
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| Developer(s) | Corbin. A, Alex Nesseman, Stroggos |
| Non-Developer(s) | Chris Mullen (CeeJay) |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++, Lua, ASM |
| Target Platform | Windows, KallistOS, Cross-Platform |
| License | GNU General Public License v2+ |
| Website | http://edge2.sf.net/ |
Sega Dreamcast. The port only comes with Windows binaries, though the user can build both Linux and Macintosh versions from source.
As well as adding new features, the team also incorporated fixes to a few bugs left behind from EDGE. The name is a play on EDGE - the "3" is to symbolize the third line of continuation from EDGE and DOSDoom. The team still receives help from Andrew Apted when applicable.
A few notable mods in development are Abrasion by Kronos (utilizing the MD3 code), Doom Forever by Chris Mullen (CeeJay), and a sequel to the Marc A. Pullen (Fanatic) mod QDOOM. SLaVE and Hypertension: Harmony of Darkness are two commercial products using this engine, both being developed by Isotope Softworks and published by Goat Store Publishing.
Dream3DGE is a Sega Dreamcast-only port of EDGE 1.29, and has high compatibility with pre-1.31 mods, as it cannot currently run anything created with EDGE 1.31 or above. It must be built with KallistOS.
The Dream3DGE branch (and EDGE 1.29 that it was based off of) was abandoned officially and rewritten/integrated back into 3DGE with version 1.37. The Dreamcast code uses ifdefs for KGL instead of OpenGL for important rendering functions concerning the SH2 CPU. To achieve harmony between versions, things like floodfill emulation was abandoned and written to display directly as polygons.
Features (1.36+)
- All EDGE 1.35 features
- Several important bugs squashed
- Heretic/Chex IWAD support
- MD3 model support
- 2 player splitscreen co-op or deathmatch (local only)
- RoQ video support for cinematics
- Runs on the Sega Dreamcast console, based on a modified EDGE 1.29.
- Post-processing effects
- Decals
- DDF enhancements and additions
In-Progress (1.4/2.0)
- Rendering interpolation - "uncapped" framerate (available in version 1.4A)
- New scripting language SPLINE, which allows the engine to utilize spline-based cameras.
- MD5 Model Support, with Level-of-Detail implementation and TCMOD shaders
- Quake 3: Arena-style shader-based sky system
- ACS/DECORATE support/converters
Heretic support is being written is in beta as of 1.36E, using a similarly named definition file called HDF (Heretic Definition File). The HDF definitions in whole were provided by CeeJay.
External links
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| Based on EDGE |
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