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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.
MDL Model Conversion
Posted by Jacques Krige on November 21, 2008
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The past two weeks I’ve been doing a lot of reading with regards to the specifications of the Quake1 (and Hexen2) MDL model format and the Quake2 MD2 model format. Mostly looking at where they are similar, where they differ and if there is any functionality missing in the one and extra in the other and vice versa as well as anything thats engine specific. I mostly relied on 3rd party spec papers as well as Quake1 and Quake2 engine/tools code to understand the structure of both formats.
Most of my time was spent decoding the MDL format and making sure that all data I load DOES make sense because theres no ways you can during the process know if you are doing it right or not, unless you are willing to spend the time to echo your results in a custom renderer to visualize the data. I’m too lazy for that type of effort.