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UQE Hexen II v1.15 Released!
Posted by Jacques Krige on February 17, 2012
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Its unbelieveable that its been almost a full year since the previous version of UQE Hexen II were released!
When I released the previous version of UQE Hexen II with additional higher and widescreen resolutions people pointed out that the field of view (FOV) is still set at a fixed 90 degrees which is typical for 4:3 letterbox resolutions. When I investigated the FOV implementation in the engine I decided to port the original Quake engine’s FOV setup code over to Hexen II as it seemed as if its implementation pretty much fixed it to 90 degrees. Changing the FOV on the console did not change the field of view at all. After some work on the subject I succeeded in changing the code to actually calculate the FOV value dynamically based upon the currently used resolution.
Quake2 BSP Rendering using Microsoft XNA 4
Posted by Jacques Krige on April 25, 2011
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It’s been quite some time since I last spent time on my idTech2 XNA Renderer, but I finally managed to upgrade the project to Microsoft XNA 4.0 as well as adding new features and bug fixes. For the longest time I wanted to add MD2 model rendering support, but never got around actually doing the code for it.
While on vacation I thought it will be cool to quickly convert the technology from Microsoft .NET 3.5 and Microsoft XNA 3.1 to .NET 4.0 and XNA 4.0, but great was my disappointment when I realized that it won’t be a quicky and that there were significant breaking changes introduced in XNA. At least these were all good breaking changes, but none the less it still meant I need to go through the technology with a fine tooth comb and fix the now broken bits of code.
UQE Hexen II v1.14 Released!
Posted by Jacques Krige on February 27, 2011
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Its been a long time coming, but finally its here!
UQE Hexen II v1.14!
This new and second release of UQE Hexen II came almost five years since the very first release back in 2006 and it boasts a number of really great additions and fixes to the engine. Here we will highlight the most important ones, but for a complete list of new features and changes see the change log.
When it comes to the technologies used; I have updated the DirectX libraries to the latest and compiled and linked to them as well as updated the OpenGL extensions header files to make sure the code is aware of any new extensions that are available. The engine have also been compiled with Visual Studio 2010 which in itself fixes a lot of issues with the binary engine. All 16-bit video modes have been removed from the engine to create room for higher resolutions up to HD resolutions.
Quake2 BSP Rendering using Microsoft XNA
Posted by Jacques Krige on May 22, 2009
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The past few months I’ve been working on/off on a project that loads and renders Quake2 (idTech2) BSP files using the .NET language called C# for the program logic and XNA for input and rendering purposes. Initially the idea was to use XNA and build from the ground up game technology to run our titles on using technologies I’m familiar with in the form of the Quake and idTech2 engines. Initially the idea was to try and swat two flies at once by developing tech that could carry our game titles on as well as have a clean replacement for our “Ultimate Quake Engine” (UQE) project.
This is the utopia, but it is not possible to accomplish this in a decent timeframe.
On the one hand you want to build technology that is competitive regarding capabilities to other engines or renderers out there, but on the other hand you want to remain faithful to what the technology should be able to do regarding the UQE project. Ultimately its impossible to build a single technology that looks into both directions without having a dated or bloated design. We decided the best was to go, as Corvus Games, is to utilize XNA for simpler arcade-like titles and for larger titles license a commercial engine like Torque3D and the likes.