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Quake Developer's Pages

ChangeLog, last update: November 22th. Credits & Author

You will find links to local and remote Quake-specific pages and sites here, namely the

Quake Source releases
Quake related technical publications,
additional Info by id Software
Quake Documentation Project
Unofficial Quake Specs
Hypermail Archive of the Quake Developer's Mailing List

There are additional resources to be found in Web and Net, and background information in abundance, a small overview available on the Net Resources pages.

Quake Source releases by id Software

This collection provides sources of QuakeEd, qbsp and other utilities, as released by id Software, and the resources available, i.e. WAD and MAP files.

The sources of the server and the qc QuakeC compiler have not been released, and will probably not be released until the registered version ships.

Quake related Technical Publications

This collection contains talks, papers and articles on techniques that are used by Quake, or are closely related to those supposedly used by Quake.

Quake Technical info from the CGDC talk by Michael Abrash.
Visible Surface Determination, article published by Michael Abrash.
3D Clipping, article published by Michael Abrash.
Hidden Surface Removal, article published by Michael Abrash.
Perspective Texture Mapping, article series published by Chris Hecker.

Info by id Software

You will find here misc. information as occasionally released by id Software.

technical infos distributed with the Quake releases.
editing info by John Carmack.
work logs of John Carmack and John Cash.
e-mails from John Carmack, Jay Wilbur and Dave Taylor.
early MAP examples.

Note that some of these infos are outdated and only provided for the records.

Quake Documentation Project

The Quake Documentation project is supposed to develop gradually into a comprehensive set of documents useful for actual editing and development. I have started to include contributions by other authors. There is a sketch of an editor, a draft of a primer on concepts and ideas of Quake map representation, and additional discussion I named Request For Comments. Several aspects of converting WAD files are available, too.

About the QDP
Unofficial Quake Specs
by Olivier Montanuy with assistance by Brian Martin and Raphael Quinet.
Quake C Specs by Olivier Montanuy.
Quake MAP Specs by Nicholas Dwarkanath and Thomas Winzig
Quake DEM Specs by Uwe Girlich.
Quake Network Protocol by A. Oliver de Guzman.
Quake Specs for Making Models by Steve Tietze, Rogue Entertainment,
Editing Models by Shoaib Kamil, Planetary Design.
Quake Console Commands by Nicholas Dwarkanath, and the previous Quake Commands list by Reid Ellis.
Quake Image Warping by Kekoa Proudfoot.
Quake Editing Primer by Bernd Kreimeier.

Quake Source Repository
Quake Bot Client Source written by Olivier Montanuy
QED sketch
WAD conversion issues
Request For Comments

Here is a good overview of editors.

Quake Developers Hypermail archive

The Quake Developer's mailing list is dedicated to technical discussions related to developing Quake tools and editing utilities. The threaded archive of the list is available and provides lots of useful info.

general information on the Quake Developer's mailing list.
the manually updated archive, threaded by month. Mothballed.

If you joined the list recently, or hesitate to subscribe, but do not want to miss valuable info, you should take a look at the archive.

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