yquake2remaster/README.md

Yamagi Quake II Remaster

This is an experimental fork of Yamagi Quake II with ongoing work to add support for Quake II Enhanced aka Q2 Remaster(ed). This enhanced version has a lot non trivial changes, adding support isn't easy and takes time. Feel free to try this code but you mileage may vary.

Have a look at the yquake2 repository for the "normal" Yamagi Quake II: https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2

Alpha windows 64 bit binaries. Saves format is unstabled and could change between alpha releases.

State:

• GL1/GLES3/GL3/GL4/VK:
  • base1: no known issues,
  • base2: no known issues,
  • q64/outpost: broken level change,
  • mguhub: sometimes broken logic for surface fall in next maps.
• SOFT:
  • base1: broken wall light and wall glitch,
  • base2: broken wall light and wall glitch,
  • q64/outpost: broken level change, scale textures unsupported,
  • mguhub: broken wall light, sometimes broken logic for surface fall in next maps.

Monsters:

• incorrect dead animation for Arachnid,
• broken fire effect for Guardian.

Models support:

Format	Original Game	Frame vertex	Meshes	Comments
mdl	Quake 1	8 bit	Single	Unsupported grouped textures
md2	Quake 2	8 bit	Single
md2	Anachronox	8/10/16 bit	Single	No tagged surfaces, unchecked with game
mdx	Kingpin	8 bit	Multiple	No sfx support, unchecked with game
fm	Heretic 2	8 bit	Multiple
def	SiN	Part of sam	Multiple	Unchecked with game
dkm	Daikatana DKM1	8 bit	Multiple	Unchecked with game
dkm	Daikatana DKM2	10 bit	Multiple	Unchecked with game
md3	Quake 3	16 bit	Multiple	No tags support
md5	Doom 3/Quake 4	float	Multiple	Requires md2 for skins
sbm	SiN	Part of sam	Multiple	Unchecked with game
sam	SiN	8 bit	Multiple	Unchecked with game

All models support only single texture for all meshes and frames limit based on game protocol.

Texture support:

Format	Original Game	Comments
wal	Quake 2	8 bit
wal	Daikatana	8 bit
swl	SiN	8 bit
m8	Heretic 2	8 bit
m32	Heretic 2	24 bit
pcx	Quake2	24 bit
tga	Quake2	24 bit
png	retexturing	24 bit
jpg	retexturing	24 bit
bmp	Daikatana	24 bit

Maps support:

Format	Version	Game
IBSP	39	Quake 2 / Anachronox / Kingpin / Heretic 2
IBSP	41	Daikatana / SIN
RBSP	1	SIN
QBSP	39	Quake 2 ReRelease
BSPX	39	Quake 2 ReRelease (Extension to IBSP)

Note:

• Non Quake 2 maps are limmited mostly view only, and could have issues with tranparency or some animations flags and properties.
• If you like support some other maps type, create pull request for Mod_Load2QBSP function and provide a link to demo maps.

Games:

• Quake 2:
  • SDK: https://github.com/id-Software/quake2-rerelease-dll
  • Tech info: https://bethesda.net/en/article/6NIyBxapXOurTKtF4aPiF4/enhancing-quake-ii
• Anachronox:
  • SDK: https://github.com/hogsy/chronon
  • Tech info: https://anachrodox.talonbrave.info/
• Kingpin:
  • SDK: https://github.com/QuakeTools/Kingpin-SDK-v1.21
  • Tech info: https://www.kingpin.info/
• Daikatana:
  • Info: http://daikatananews.net/
• Heretic 2:
  • SDK: https://www.quaddicted.com/files/idgames2/planetquake/hereticii/files/Ht2Toolkit_v1.06.exe
  • Tech info: http://h2vault.infinityfreeapp.com/index.html
• SiN:
  • Tools: SiNview
  • Tools: https://www.moddb.com/games/sin/downloads/sin-modding-tools-and-other-stuff
  • SDK: https://github.com/NightDive-Studio/sin-ex-game

Goals:

• BSPX DECOUPLEDLM light map support (base1),
• QBSP map format support (mguhub),
• Use ffmpeg for load any video,
• RoQ and Theora cinematic videos support.
• Cinematic videos support in smk, mpeg, ogv format,
• Daikatana/Heretic 2 map partial format support,
• md5 improve load speed,
• support Anachronox .dat format,
• suport Daikatana/SiN .pak/.sin format from pakextract,
• Support flow/scale flags for Q64 maps,
• Add debug progress loading code for maps,
• MDR model format in Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force,
• RGB particles support instead palette based one,
• Broken maps groups from base2 to next,
• Single player support,
• Support effects and additional flags for ReRelease when possible.
• Use shared model cache in client code insted reimplemnet in each render,
• Check load soft colormap as 24bit color,
• Fix transparent textures in Daikatana/SiN maps,
• Use separete texture hi-color buffer for ui in soft render,
• Cleanup function declarations in game save code,
• Fix broken base3 with sorted fields names,
• Use 3 bytes vertex normal,
• Support scalled textures for models and walls in soft render and fix lighting with remastered maps,
• Modified ReRelease game code support with removed KEX only related code.

Not a goal:

• Multiplayer protocol support with KEX engine,
• Support KEX engine features (inventary, compass and so on),
• KEX game library support.

Code tested with such maps.

Yamagi Quake II

Yamagi Quake II is an enhanced client for id Software's Quake II with focus on offline and coop gameplay. Both the gameplay and the graphics are unchanged, but many bugs in the last official release were fixed and some nice to have features like widescreen support and a modern OpenGL 3.2 renderer were added. Unlike most other Quake II source ports Yamagi Quake II is fully 64-bit clean. It works perfectly on modern processors and operating systems. Yamagi Quake II runs on nearly all common platforms; including FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows and macOS (experimental).

This code is built upon Icculus Quake II, which itself is based on Quake II 3.21. Yamagi Quake II is released under the terms of the GPL version 2. See the LICENSE file for further information.

Documentation

Before asking any question, read through the documentation! The current version can be found here: doc/010_index.md

Releases

The official releases (including Windows binaries) can be found at our homepage: https://www.yamagi.org/quake2 Unsupported preview builds for Windows can be found at https://deponie.yamagi.org/quake2/misc/