Quake3World

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 ?

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/code3 ... ndex.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.

Second hand for 95 cents? lol, I might actually go and pick it up for that price.

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.

So, do you guys recommend this book? Worth buying?

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

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.