Doom3 GPL Source Release has landed

[rebb]

All hail id Software

 

Download :

ftp://ftp.idsoftware...-source-GPL.zip

 

GIT :

https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl

[i30817]

Fork now or wait for some hacking to occur?

[demagogue]

Good news is good.

[nbohr1more]

Megatexture source in the Render folder....

[SiyahParsomen]

Awesomeness! Now Carmack is my numero uno game developer.

 

Days when we can play darkmod on our phones/tablets are not that far.

[Ladro]

Oh my God, he done it!

 

Carmack is Da Man!

[New Horizon]

Tis a good day!

[Serpentine]

Heh, all in all it's rather a lot better than I was expecting, rather nice and readable.

 

And the first thing I randomed over was... "// This file implements the low-level keyboard hook that traps the task keys.", looking my enemy right in the eye.

[nbohr1more]

Yeah, I saw some more of the "Interaction Table" sizing code but it's spread out into several files and looks dynamic so there's no magic bullet to force a new overflow limit. Somewhere in the algorithm there must be a way to keep that table bigger though...

[Serpentine]

Hahaa, the image loading is exactly as I thought it'd be... oh god. Shouldn't be a problem to add 3Dc/ATI2/DXN support, and with the DTXn patent being either invalid(Apple vs HTC fallout, tho untested) or gpl-friendly (HTC is part of that linux patent friendly group iirc) it may even work well enough outside of windows in the near future (outside of horrible binary blobs) :V

 

And strangely enough a friend who wants to help with TDM performance and such decided to set up a dev environment a few hours before release, so he should come in a bit more handy now... or at least he'll have fun profiling useless crap (I know you'll read this - get busy).

 

A good day!

[lost_soul]

The link doesn't work for me. I'm guessing their servers are/have gotten slammed by a massive amount of requests.

[Diego]

I came here to deliever the news! silly me

What can TDM do with it? Is a standalone TDM possible?

[Serpentine]

Yeah the ftp was super slow when I fetched it.

 

[Mirrored for your pleasure]

[lost_soul]

possible, but a long way off. There will likely be big performance improvements and bug fixes first.

[nbohr1more]

Someone needs to build an executable ASAP so we can see if the performance went up or down

 

I think someone just compiled it... unless I'm misunderstanding this reply:

 

http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2539812&cid=38144420

Edited November 23, 2011 by nbohr1more

[greebo]

Very nice. It will take a bit until we've incorporated that package into our own source tree, I reckon.

[Sotha]

So the D3-day came!

 

Thanks, John! Much appreciated.

 

We have interesting times ahead of us. And a lot of interesting work, I'm sure, for those proficient with coding.

[i30817]

Hahaa, the image loading is exactly as I thought it'd be... oh god. Shouldn't be a problem to add 3Dc/ATI2/DXN support, and with the DTXn patent being either invalid(Apple vs HTC fallout, tho untested) or gpl-friendly (HTC is part of that linux patent friendly group iirc) it may even work well enough outside of windows in the near future (outside of horrible binary blobs) :V

 

First time accepted submitter boley1 writes "According to Cnet — S3 Graphics's case collapsed in their ITC suit, with the ITC ruling that Apple does not infringe on any of S3's patents. A big blow to HTC according to the report." So much for HTC buying a warchest; according to the ruling it looks like AMD/ATI actually owned the patents in question.

AMD asserted that. It wasn't decided.

 

Welcome to AMERICA!

 

(let's just put the server outside it).

Edited November 23, 2011 by i30817

[MoroseTroll]

What a beautiful news! Thank you, Mr. John Carmack .

[PranQster]

Hmmm...

# CPU type
cpu = commands.getoutput('uname -m')
exp = re.compile('.*i?86.*')
if exp.match(cpu):
cpu = 'x86'
else:
cpu = commands.getoutput('uname -p')
if ( cpu == 'powerpc' ):
 cpu = 'ppc'
else:
 cpu = 'cpu'
g_os = 'Linux'
# end system detection ---------------------------

... x86, ppc and generic cpu... thinking of the possibility of x86_64 and multi-core processor support as well. Then could AI be handled by a separate core, and physics by yet another?

And should linux compilation be done by scons, or should that be replaced by cmake maybe?

Edited November 23, 2011 by PranQster

[lost_soul]

I compiled it on Debian. Doom 3 works great, but TDM not so much. TDM loads up (St. Alban's Cathedral). I was able to walk around and stuff. I didn't find any guards. The game hard locked though when I pressed exc to bring up the menu.

[lowenz]

Mmmm: http://www.tomshardw...ml#xtor=RSS-181

 

 

During DOOM 3's development, Carmack independently discovered and publicized a shading process later dubbed as "Carmack's Reverse," but Creative Labs had already filed for a patent on the technique back in 1999. Carmack said he created a separate shading method that got around the patent issues, but that meant a significant "speed hit" in DOOM 3's performance. Thus, the studio had no choice but to license the "depth fail" patent from Creative and move on.

"The Doom 3 GPL source code release does not include functionality enabling rendering of stencil shadows via the 'depth fail' method, a functionality commonly known as 'Carmack's Reverse,'" states the source code notes.

 

So there's the old performance issue Carmack talked about?

Edited November 23, 2011 by lowenz

[sparhawk]

YEAH! Finally it's there. I guess Carmack was just waiting for my birthday to release it. Thanks John, appreciate it!

 

(German news site)

http://www.heise.de/...-3-1383468.html

[i30817]

So there's the old performance issue Carmack talked about?

 

.... in 1999

[New Horizon]

.... in 1999

 

Creative patented the shading process back in 1999, but Carmack was talking about a performance hit to Doom 3 back in 2004 if they hadn't been able to use the reverse. Hoping he was able to come up with something similar or better this time around.