New graphics engine

[flosculus]

i've played this game on and off in previous years, its always been fun, but only today did i notice that it was open source and was still in constant development

i've downloaded it and im looking forward to playing it again tonight to see whats been changed, however i've noticed from a few screenshots that the graphics are the same.

most of the time it doesnt really both me, infact im still gonna play this from start to finish even with the current graphics. but im curious to know if some improvements are being made? i understand its open source and free therefore making it a high end game would be unrealistic, however even if it used an engine simular to C&C Generals, it would be pretty damn good, and playable on nearly all machines.

im gonna take a wild guess at the software engineering (im a web programmer lol) but im thinking that the graphics engine doesnt have a knock on effect on game mechanics, so even if a new engine was used with a seperate version of the latest releases or maybe a plugin (a bit like eve online has two sets of graphics), that would be pretty awsome. its been 10 years, i would have thought some new meshes would have been knocked up

flos

[SCAVANGER]

yeah that could be great c&c generals is a pretty damn game

[coolkid]

I believe that we should just improve the current engine. Add dx9-11, open gl (not sure what the newest version is) bump mapping, and in game aa&af (so you dont have to force it) etc.

[Zarel]

There's a new terrain renderer in trunk.

[BulletMagnet]

now where's that sticky about people making suggestions?

[nobby]

This is mentioned in the FAQ - there's no particular intention to do a new graphics engine for the reasons outlined in the FAQ, but people are making enhancements to the current one. IMHO, WZ2100 has a fan base because of the gameplay and extensibility rather than the eye candy, so I don't think that there is much demand to do a major overhaul on the graphics engine anyway. It's a bit of a nice-to-have and would be quite a lot of work.

[Zarel]

This is mentioned in the FAQ - there's no particular intention to do a new graphics engine for the reasons outlined in the FAQ, but people are making enhancements to the current one. IMHO, WZ2100 has a fan base because of the gameplay and extensibility rather than the eye candy, so I don't think that there is much demand to do a major overhaul on the graphics engine anyway. It's a bit of a nice-to-have and would be quite a lot of work.

I REPEAT: THERE'S A NEW TERRAIN RENDERER IN TRUNK.

(i.e. a major overhaul of the graphics engine)

Geez, does no one pay attention? :/

See it here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2379

[SCAVANGER]

thanks for the info the new terrain looks amazing

[Makary]

Maybe port wz to Irrlicht engine? It's open source too. Yes, it's more important to have good gameplay than eyecandy. But who knows? Maybe Warzone 2200 will be on Unreal Engine 3

[milo christiansen]

Maybe port wz to Irrlicht engine? It's open source too. Yes, it's more important to have good gameplay than eyecandy. But who knows? Maybe Warzone 2200 will be on Unreal Engine 3

The engine would have to suport a game written in c not c++, also it would be a huge amount of work and the devs dont have the time.

[Zarel]

If someone could port it for us, that'd be great, though. You might have trouble with that Warzone's OpenGL integration is pretty low-level.

[nobby]

I think we're into semantics here. The terrain renderer is a modification to the existing graphics engine. It is most certainly not an exercise in porting WZ2100 to another engine made by Id or some other third party.

This is mentioned in the FAQ - there's no particular intention to do a new graphics engine for the reasons outlined in the FAQ, but people are making enhancements to the current one. IMHO, WZ2100 has a fan base because of the gameplay and extensibility rather than the eye candy, so I don't think that there is much demand to do a major overhaul on the graphics engine anyway. It's a bit of a nice-to-have and would be quite a lot of work.

I REPEAT: THERE'S A NEW TERRAIN RENDERER IN TRUNK.

(i.e. a major overhaul of the graphics engine)

Geez, does no one pay attention? :/

See it here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2379

[Zarel]

I think we're into semantics here. The terrain renderer is a modification to the existing graphics engine. It is most certainly not an exercise in porting WZ2100 to another engine made by Id or some other third party.

Go read what he wrote again:

• most of the time it doesnt really both me, infact im still gonna play this from start to finish even with the current graphics. but im curious to know if some improvements are being made?

The terrain renderer definitely counts as "improvements [that] are being made".

[pseudonymous]

The terrain renderer definitely counts as "improvements [that] are being made".

Think of it like the health care bill in the U.S. Senate currently, it is "reform" but no one will see any improvements for a long time. xD

[Makary]

But who knows? Maybe Warzone 2200 will be on Unreal Engine 3

Unreal Development Kit is now for free! http://www.udk.com/download.html Havok too, but rather it would be useless in wz