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3DGE has tons of new features that are works-in-progress. Some of them have been listen elsewhere as completed or not: this is the definitive sheet.

Items marked in BOLD indicate in-progress or finished!

2.0x codebase

The following features will be completed before or at the end of the 2.0x lifecycle:

• Completed Interpolation (heights, projectiles, etc)

• MD5 support completed (skins, animation). FINISHED

• DDF addition for weapons (Z_Aspect) (FINISHED), support for partial reloading

• Splitscreen mode fully functional

• MD2, MD3, MDL, and MD5 models support normal and specular maps.

2.1 codebase

Beginning with 2.1.0, 3DGE will get a massive rewrite:

• OpenGL 2x rewrite (if extensions are detected, otherwise the engine will fall back to old 1.1 compliance). IN PROGRESS

• Total Zone memory manager rewrite (more speed improvements). FINISHED

• Textures will support normal, bump, and specular maps. IN PROGRESS

• Heavily revamped Dynamic Lighting and Shadowing code (true directional light and true dynamic shadows)

• Sky subsystem rewritten from Quake 3 for Q3 BSPs, normal sky code will remain for DOOM maps.

• OPL integration for music; replaces fudged SYSTEM music player under Windows. FINISHED

• SPLINE library replaces all camera code and new script files for them will be added.

• Environment maps for surfaces (like Half-Life)

• True Slopes using vertex height calculation

• Polyobject support.

• Inventory System

• Better RTS functions (some adapted from FraggleScript)

• FraggleScript support (limited*)

• ROQ library for cinematics, and render-to-texture (skins, textures) IN PROGRESS

• Quake 3 BSP Support (loading, rendering)