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

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