OpenGL Quake3 Arena Map Viewer

This page is dedicated to my Q3Viewer, called the Diesel Engine. It has been created over 3 years in my sparetime.

You can get a executable and full source in the downloads section.

News Screenshots of Diesel  Screenshots of R.E.D 

Features:

I´ll concentrate on special features, that are not often seen in other viewers

• support for WGL_ARB_multisample (full scene antialias)
• md3 support (usual items and weapons are loaded, no tag-based animation though)
• lod for md3 models
• static lighting for all dynamic objects (uses the lightgrid and OpenGL lighting)
• full Quake 3 Volumetric Fog (even for models that are partly or fully inside the fog)
• almost every shader keyword is supported (defomvertex/rgbgen/alphagen/tcgen/tcmod....)
• almost original colors due to overbrighting-support (with gamma support)
• portals and cameras
• support for func_bobbing, func_rotating, func_pendulum (see q3dm15!) and func_train
• background music (uses runtime dynamic loaded FMOD library)
• .pk3 file-support (uses ZLIB library)
• quite comfortable console (bindings, recursive alias-support, auto-completition for commands)
• multitexturing (dynamic pass-collapsing where possible, support for NV_texture_env_combine4)
  cards with more than 2 texture units will benefit from it (especially GF3 and GF4)
• basic collsion detection for the camera
• flares (the ones that are contained inside most bsp-files)
• support for Team Arena Maps
• support for AVI-Files as texture (no .roq support though :-( )
• farbox, cloudlayer and nearbox are supported
• can also load StarTrek Elite Force, Wolfenstein and any Q3-MOD maps (see hints-section)
• very OS-friendly support for activation/deactivation (alt-tab) and fullscreen-switching (alt-return)
• errrrm..... anything I forgot ?

Screenshots:

Requirements:

• Windows 98/ME/NT4(SP6)/2000/XP
• an OpenGL1.1 compliant graphics card (Voodoo2, Riva128, TNT,TNT2, Geforce1/2/3 and ATI-All-In-Wonder128 tested)
• FMOD library 
• DirectX 6 and higher installed (just DirectInput is used)

Usage:

• copy the files into your Quake 3 basedir and run the executable
• you will then see the console, type in "map xxx"  where xxx is the name of a map without .bsp trailing
• after some time you will see the map, use ~ to get rid of the console
• look  around with your mouse, use the keys you would normally use in quake3 to fly around (the program executes "baseq3/q3config.cfg" )

Hints:

• you can repeat older typings inside the console (use uparrow/downarrow) and watch at older printouts (pgup,pgdn,home,end)
• VERY  important: if you get stuck somewhere, just type in “noclip 1”
• Voodoo users have to copy "3dfxvgl.dll" into their Quake3-directory and rename it to "opengl32.dll"
• If the programs runs very slow and your 3d card has less than 16megs of video ram (Voodoo!) , type "r_picmip 1" once and reload the map
• you can use "dir maps" to show all available mapfiles inside the .pk3 files and regular directories
• use "addPaks  directoryname" to add the pk3 files of the given quake3-subdirectory (this can be used to load maps of mods like team arena, rocket arena, urban terror....)
• on modern nVidia cards (TNT2 and up) you can use "r_ext_multitexture 2" to make use of NV_texture_env_combine4 extension; this helps some fps on maps with strong use of alpha-blending. Only with this extension you will get maximum usage of all available tetxure units.
• type "map" without giving a mapname and a filerequester pops up. You can then choose .md3 , 3ds or .bsp files to load.
• 3ds-files show up unlit. use "r_lighting 1" to enable a headlight.  With normal .bsp files you´ll see, that all lit objects also get lit by the flashlight
• try setting  "r_lockpvs" , "r_usebsp", "r_usepvs", "r_showtris", "r_shownormals", "r_lightmap", "r_showboxes"  to 1 or 0
• try setting "r_maxPasses" from 1 up to 8 (r_maxPasses 0 in conjunction with r_showtris 1 will result in pure wireframe :-)
• "r_curvefactor" controls how fine the curved surfaces are tesselated. This value should be greater than 0, higher values give a coarser tesselation (20 is already very coarse)
• visit q3dm4, it shows deformvertex bulge (the "intestines" )
• setting "r_clear 1" clears the background every frame (useful when loading only single 3ds or md3 objects)
• Riva128 cards are very slow and show inaccurate blending in many places - go buy a better card!
• “r_flares 0” disables the flares
• to load and view DOF files, type in "map" and press enter. Now choose a .DOF file. Enable the headlight with "r_lighting 1" and probably set down the velocity of the camera with "speed 100".
  If the model comes out corrupt and the loader is  complaining about things (see console printouts), then you probably have an old buggy .DOF. Just load it into the modeler that comes with Racer and export it again to DOF.
• in order to load STEF and Wolfenstein maps (or any other MOD´s map), just use the "addPaks" command. The argument for it is a path to where the new pakfiles lie (either relative or absolute). This path is also used as additional searchpath from now on.
• in order to activate Full Scene Antiaalias, you have to have a GF3+ (don´t know about other cards), choose a proper sampling level at the screenmode requester (left position is "off") and start the program, now try r_FSAA 1 or 2, you should immediately notice the effect.

Download:

Binaries:    DIESEL.zip (around 350kb)
Source:     DIESELSource.zip (around 1.5mb)

Contact:

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