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I had a look the other day - looks like it was hacked together! ;-)

I can''t wait for mods to pop up. I''d like to make one myself but the code style kinda put me off.

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For those of you with slower modems that don''t want to download the whole 6.4MB, the source is being posted at The Rabbit Hole here with all the individual files.

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How old is RTCW?

Hmm it''s using C too, wonder who programmers were.

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Original post by Xanth
How old is RTCW?

Hmm it''s using C too, wonder who programmers were.

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Time to crawl out from that rock you''ve been sitting under. RCTW is more or less 6 months old, made by an independent company under id''s supervision, and uses Q3 engine which, surprise surprise, Carmack coded in C too.

Actually, it looks a great deal less "hacked together" than the Quake2 source. There are actually meaningful comments and variable names and I can figure out what is going on in the code quickly. The first thing I thought when I saw it was "Id wrote this? No way, this must be a third-party thing."

I assume by "hacked together" you mean coding style.

>>>>>Time to crawl out from that rock you''ve been sitting under. RCTW is more or less 6 months old, made by an independent company under id''s supervision, and uses Q3 engine which, surprise surprise, Carmack coded in C too.<<<<<

LoL tell me about... It is a big rock though, hard to lift. Six months... It''s fairly new then.

I didn''t know it used the Q3 engine (I did know Carmack wrote that engine though )

Yeah Z01 you''re right, I meant coding style.

I''m a bit of a comment fiend. If there''s not a comment every few lines I get upset :-)

I''m still very keen on doing something, but I find it hard to get into C mode after thinking C++ for so long.

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I haven''t any problems understanding it, I just think it''s not clean.

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um how can u not understand c if u understand c++??

Perhaps it''s poorly written C code? I haven''t looked at it yet !

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Original post by Thrump
Perhaps it''s poorly written C code? I haven''t looked at it yet !

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LOL, yeah Carmack is known to write poor code...this is a real good one



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Billy(Anonymous Poster):
That was a **joke**. I have RTCW, I played it, I know who produced it, I know who Carmack is (and that he didn''t write that paricular piece of code), I have the Q1 sourcecode, and I read Abrash''s book about ten times by now...

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Actually much of the released Wolfenstein code is just Quake 3 code.

There are even a few commented out bits :-)

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