14 years of the quake engine

[axbaby]

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6879 ... logy/News/

[obsidian]

Don't people proof read articles anymore?

[axbaby]

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http://fullglassemptyclip.com/2010/06/2 ... rce-ports/

[Scourge]

Don't people proof read articles anymore?

I've noticed an increasing amount of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and plain missing word errors in media lately. On a very noticeable level. Being an editor must be nice. They don't seem to do anything.

[Theftbot]

They also need to get their facts straight too.

[Eraser]

Wow, that's indeed a very badly written article. I almost get the impression that it was written in a different language and then translated with some help from Google Translate.

[Theftbot]

The Quake Engine was the first 3D game engine that used three dimensional figures instead of two dimensional sprites. -yeah right.

[^misantropia^]

Maybe my memory deceives me but wasn't Q1 indeed the first truly 3D game, instead of 2.5D?

[Captain]

I believe it was.

[Eraser]

Yes, although the Dark Forces engine did have support for 3D models, it didn't really use them.

[MKJ]

fully textured models, i suppose.
long time back there were those 3d tank games that used vectors and solid polygons ey

[^misantropia^]

Yeah, I played one of those on my 8086. But you could only move in a two-dimensional plane so it wasn't fully 3D either.

[MKJ]

well. yea.
the statement was about 3d models tho rite :K

[^misantropia^]

Ah, right. I thought we had moved on to the wider scope of 3D in general, not just models. Mea culpa.

[Eraser]

fully textured models, i suppose.
long time back there were those 3d tank games that used vectors and solid polygons ey

Yeah you're right. Fully textured models is what I ment.

[VolumetricSteve]

Did descent 1 and quake 1 come out in the same year?

I'd think one of those two would have been to first to be "all 3d" albeit software 3d.

[Eraser]

Descent: march 17, 1995
Quake: June 22, 1996