I've just had another look at the Quake ftp site, and compared the file sizes quake2.zip=1.4MB nexuiz11.zip=158.3MB
nexuiz was derived from quake2. It's put on some weight! ;) Oh well, Ingres R3 was derived from Ingres (Berkeley) and that's a similar magnitude of difference ... ;) Wesley Parish On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 04:55, Caleb Sawtell wrote: > Wesley Parish wrote: > Just a little word of warning Nexuiz is highly GPU dependant if you want > the nice effects eg lags on my geforce fx 5600XT :-( > > >http://www.nexuiz.com/index.php > >"All of Nexuiz is licensed under the GPL, including the core engine, the > >textures, maps, sounds, and models. It is extremely modder friendly. > > Because of its GPL license status, it can be included in any Linux > > distros or packages and is entirely free. > > > >Nexuiz is built on the power of the Darkplaces engine, which is a heavily > >modified version of the original Quake. Darkplaces features realtime > > lighting and stencil shadows, bumpmapping, gloss, bloom, and totally > > rewritten network code that supports up to 64 players on a single server. > > While quality gameplay was our primary goal, it's graphics technology and > > artwork allows the game to compete with the current quality of commercial > > games." > > > >And "Quake 3 Source Release Coming!" > >http://www.planetquake.com/ > >"Hot off the presses folks, just announced moments ago, we've got awesome > > news out of camp QuakeCon where Pappy-R has just left the QuakeCon > > Keynote with John Carmack. The Quake III Arena source code will be > > released as soon as they can put it all together! It was also noted that > > the release "will not include any PunkBuster stuff in it". Watch for more > > news on the Q3 source release as it comes in!" > > > >I'm seriously thinking of a first-party plotter to be called "The Methane > >Reclamation Act", starring various politicians plotting and planning to > > pass a law to be called in short form, "The Methane Reclamation Act", to > > recover - for fuel and greenhouse gas uses - the methane emitted daily by > > the average citizen. The Sicillian Option allows one to murder your > > political opponents; the Congressional Option allows you to bribe them; > > the Taiwan Option allows you to mug them whether in or out of Parliament. > > > >It looks as if it'll take the next eight hours for nexuiz to download ... > > ;^) > > > >Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
