The Quake 2 Game DLL Subsystem

written by the Q2DP

1. Introduction

• 1.1 About the Quake 2 Documentation Project
• 1.2 The Open Game Architecture

2. Compilation, Installation, and Use

• 2.1 Minimal DLL
• 2.2 DM-only DLL
• 2.3 Switching the DLL on the fly
• 2.4 Compiling as C++
• 2.5 Interfacing Java

3. The Quake 2 Main Engine

• 3.1 Memory Manangement
• 3.2 Main Engine Sound System
• 3.3 GUI/Menu
• 3.4 Networking
• 3.5 Client subsystem
• 3.6 Rendering Variables
• 3.7 Server subsystem

4. Miscellaneous

• 4.1 Managing the Game DLL

5. The Quake 2 Game DLL

• 5.1 Releases and versions

6. Interfacing the Game Subsystem

• 6.1 Game Subsystem API
• 6.2 Server-visible Data Structures

7. Edicts and Entities

• 7.1 Spawn function LUT
• 7.2 The Server - Game Subsystem interface
• 7.3 Spawning during game
• 7.4 Freeing during game.
• 7.5 Linking entities
• 7.6 OOP view of spawning

8. Savegame/loadgame

9. Annotated Module Overview

• 9.1 The API Header
• 9.2 The Quake2 DLL Shared Code
• 9.3 The Game (G) Modules
• 9.4 The Play/Client (P) Modules
• 9.5 The Player
• 9.6 The Miscellaneous (M) Monster Modules
• 9.7 The Monsters
• 9.8 The Bosses

10. DLL Source as HTML