Quake 3 Source Code Released

[dredd]

The Quake 3 source code has been released if anyone is interested

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/38305

There is some discussion about the code going on at slashdot

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl...329236&tid=112

[Dougal]

They're using it as a "How NOT to code" at uni next year.

Its meant to be the ugliest code around but gives a good output.

[Xaneden]

Nice, might give this a try when my C++ skills improve a bit

[Spunkey]

.... me confused, i thought it already was public - i downloaded it about 3 years ago

[dredd]

.... me confused, i thought it already was public - i downloaded it about 3 years ago

The first release was only limited sections of the code that allowed users to develop mods to integrate correctly with Q3. This release constitutes all of the source code including the graphics engine and networking code.

[Spud1]

just grabbed this Wierd thing is i understand some of it lol.

Might have to have a play when i get bored - make some changes and see if it compiles

[Xaneden]

Why should I get this when I already found hl2 source code when i stumbled upon valves ftp server 18 months before game came out.

How did you manage that!?!?

[Spud1]

pyle...thats got nothing to do with this post

and it wasnt the complete source..was a pain to compile...and ofc was totally illegal as opposed to this being 100% legit :0

[beca5olo]

They're using it as a "How NOT to code" at uni next year.

Its meant to be the ugliest code around but gives a good output.

No time for object oriented programming when speed is your game.