Welcome to CQ3A! CQ3A is a Quake3 renderer for the CAVE. It can also be used with
various other VR devices or run on a regular desktop. It is based on Steve
Taylor's wonderful Aftershock engine. I added simple collision
detection and improved performance by adding support for multi-texturing
and compiled vertex arrays. I then restructured
the engine so that it can be used with several VR interfaces.
I probably do not have the time to make it into a game like I did with
CAVE QUAKE II.
However, CQ3A is still interesting for several reasons:
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In many ways, Quake3 Arena represents the state of the art in
real-time rendering. The CQ3A engine implements many of the
features that are in the real game including multi-pass shaders,
curved surfaces (bezier patches), bsp tree with pvs testing/culling,
lightmaps, animations, skybox rendering, etc
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Even if you don't care about gaming, the Quake3 format is a great
format for creating original 3D content. There are several free
map editors available, including the incredibly powerful
QERadiant.
Now you can easily import worlds created with these tools into the CAVE!
Check out
my house
model!
- It is open-source (GPL) and cross-platform. I restructured
the engine so that it can handle multiple rendering contexts and
multiple rendering pipes.
For details, read this short
VR source article. The result is that CQ3A can compile with
7 different interfaces! Each interface is small and completely separate
from the rest of the engine. The interfaces are listed on the
Downloads Page.
New to the CAVE? There's a lot more information, pictures, and movies on
my CAVE QUAKE II website.
Enjoy!
Paul Rajlich
paul@visbox.com
http://www.visbox.com/prajlich/rajlich/paul.html
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