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Author:  D-Meat [ 03-04-2014 12:27 PM ]
Post subject:  book : "Focus on mod programming for Quake 3 Arena"
Hi there ! Long time no posts, it seems I lost my motivation to make games somewhere in the process ...

Anyway, has anybody heard of this book : "focus on mod programming for Quake 3 Arena" by Shawn Holmes ?

I'm curious of the quality of that book, and maybe I'll buy it. But maybe it's crap ! Maybe I already know everything that's in it !

Has anyone here read it ?
Author:  UglyFoot [ 03-04-2014 04:59 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: book : "Focus on mod programming for Quake 3 Arena"
I haven't read it but I have found this link with a comment about it and some sources. I would add to this:
- http://www.quakewiki.net/archives/code3arena/index.shtml
- http://www.quake3hut.co.uk/q3coding/

The book seems good, I would buy an used one.

Yes, unfortunately motivation gets lost over time but you need to know how to deal with it. One thing I do (or try :)) is spending a little time everyday or two even if it's just ten or fifteen minutes so that the results will come sooner or later and some motivation as well.
Author:  Eraser [ 03-06-2014 12:22 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: book : "Focus on mod programming for Quake 3 Arena"
Second hand for 95 cents? lol, I might actually go and pick it up for that price.
Author:  D-Meat [ 03-06-2014 05:06 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: book : "Focus on mod programming for Quake 3 Arena"
Thanks for your feedback ! I'll try to catch a cheap copy :)

And yeah I think paper books are stille good ... By studing (or rather decrypting) by myself the engine last year, I accumulated a 2cm thick stack of A4 paper with notes. I wrote down all the structures I needed, and some time some functions that I had trouble understanding. Maybe I should've found out about that book earlier. Well.
Author:  vinny [ 08-25-2014 04:55 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: book : "Focus on mod programming for Quake 3 Arena"
So, do you guys recommend this book? Worth buying?
Author:  D-Meat [ 09-12-2014 05:36 AM ]
Post subject:  Re: book : "Focus on mod programming for Quake 3 Arena"
Actually, you can download it for free in some places (I don't know if it's acutally legal or not), so you can give it a try :)
Author:  Ganemi [ 01-11-2015 09:18 PM ]
Post subject:  Re: book : "Focus on mod programming for Quake 3 Arena"
I actually got the book and started going through the code. I get a funky error when messing with the seeking rocket. In the homing missile function if I don't include a line that prints anything every time the function passes through the game will crash. Really weird, and I'm not sure how to go through that.
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