DarkMatter Engine

Introduction

QUAKE communities have always been fractured as players gravitate towards a certain title. From Q1 to Q3, there are at least 1,500 quality community-made levels - many of which have either not received the acclaim they deserved or are slowly disappearing from online presence.

DarkMatter is a project that will ultimately provide a unified platform for enjoying the classic QUAKE maps and titles in specially-made mods on a robust, high-performing and stable engine. It will be split into engine and game logic modules, and focus on recreating and refining classic QUAKE gameplay experiences for a wider audience. Hundreds of custom-made levels will be given a new lease of life with high-def levelshots, author tags, entity and clipping fixes as well as detailed map variables to use in filterable map browsers and map cycles.

Current core engine features

• A flexible filesystem for loading from multiple game bases, with automatic detection of game installation paths.
• Supporting maps and assets from QUAKE LIVE.
• Ogg Vorbis codec
• Aspect-correct UI and expanded field of view (including weapon FOV) for widescreens
• Entity override dumping and loading for servers to modify level items
• Detailed cvar descriptions straight from the console, min and max values for all appropriate cvars
• A number of added cvars and commands providing more customization and control

More information including features and installation instructions available in the assets/docs directory.

Quake3e engine features:

• optimized OpenGL renderer
• optimized Vulkan renderer
• raw mouse input support, enabled automatically instead of DirectInput(\in_mouse 1) if available
• unlagged mouse events processing, can be reverted by setting \in_lagged 1
• \in_minimize - hotkey for minimize/restore main window (win32-only, direct replacement for Q3Minimizer)
• \video-pipe - to use external ffmpeg binary as an encoder for better quality and smaller output files
• significally reworked QVM (Quake Virtual Machine)
• improved server-side DoS protection, much reduced memory usage
• raized filesystem limits (up to 20.000 maps can be handled in a single directory)
• reworked Zone memory allocator, no more out-of-memory errors
• non-intrusive support for SDL2 backend (video,audio,input), selectable at compile time
• tons of bugfixes and other improvements

Planned fixes and features for upcoming releases

• Check for map shaders and textures in BSP path first
• QUAKE II (IBSP 38) Support
• WAL image loading
• PAK file support
• MD2 model loading
• Screen regions for additional widescreen HUD alignment
• Flexible window controls (resizing, WinKey screen alignment)
• Tall screen aspect ratio support
• Update console font scaling when toggling r_fullscreen
• Threewave and Jailbreak:POW menu fixes

Links

• https://github.com/ec-/Quake3e
• https://bitbucket.org/CPMADevs/cnq3
• https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3
• https://github.com/kennyalive/Quake-III-Arena-Kenny-Edition
• https://github.com/OpenArena/engine