Cube Engine

I've been experimenting with the Cube Engine (it's a free open-source
thing) for a couple of months now. It's a Quake-style FPS-engne.

What is really cool: The main program has an in-game editor, but also a multiplayer-option. So you can connect to other users and map simultaneously.
I've never seen anything like that. I use it in combination with a
voice tool. (don't you f**king touch that wonderfully crafted arch !)

Anyone else has experiences with it ? I'll be releasing my first map for the engine soon.

www.cubeengine.com

check the website for downloads and shots

It is quite fantastic, I playied with it a couple of months back -- in linux -- so that scores points for me. What I just love about it as the fact somebody is attempting to write a game engine that is open source; they're doing it for fun, not for money.

It seems big open source projects are really taking off latly with the fonominal sucess latly - firefox and gaim are absolutly massive. I'll say it again - Microsoft's day's are numberd. :biggrin:

It doesn't look that bad, really.

I've seen this quite some while ago, but never got so far to actually try it out. I'll give it a try... as soon as I have some time, that is...

It doesn't look that bad, really.

True, and you have to know the shots on the site are from previous versions.

I'll download and take a look, I wouldnt mind working with ya :razz:

[EDIT]Just dl'ing, I'll be on IRC in a sec,[/EDIT]

downloading and trying now, Great! , this looks awsome :biggrin:

checked it out, very nice, now how do i set coopedit mode to 1 on the server console?

Very neat idea and the screenshots look pretty impressive for an open
source FPS engine. Will probably give this a try in the future.

there are actualy heaps of free engine you can use to develope your game on.

lol, me and loz made our very first map in it :biggrin: , was testing it so it turned out poop , :smile: we might continue mapping for it though , it's verry cool :smile:

For a Cube engine that site has nice round icons bytheway... :wink:

Downloading as we speak...

Indeed, it is very nice, although not very complex, some very nice
stuff is possible, I'm going to upload the map we made, and the coop
mapping option is very cool!

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Ok, uploaded the stuff, heres 2 images, this was all done over about an
hour and a half, maybe more, from complete basics. Me and Bio were coop
mapping here, and learnt a fair bit about cube.

Bio's corner:



My corner:



and the DL:

http://loz.snarkcafe.net/maps/Cube/lozbio1.zip

note that this was a test map and we didn't realy do anything with textures etc. :smile: , i did a litle bit but, mainly we were just building stuff :smile:

Great to see you guys working that out.

You learned lots of stuff. (I had to figure out for half an hour how to actually switch textures :razz: )

I think you can connect with up to 32 people to the same server, but I
don't know if that number is stll relevant while using the co-edit
function.

if you want to work with me and bio, im sure we could make some cool
stuff, However, I do smell some 4 person Speedmapping in this engine XD

i found out how to make slopes etc. quite easy, if u wanna know about that pm me :wink:

but most is explained in readme, this was something i learn't while doing that map with dred

here's something i made in like 15 minutes, it's realy easy stuff :smile:

http://img136.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img136&image=bio17ss.jpg

I've tried it once now and well, it's nice for an open-source engine. Don't expect a full-blown game though, but it's nice...

Actually it didn't interest me enough to get me designing for it as
it's basically just a heightmap, ala Tomb Raider. Quad, derived from
Cube, sounds better in that it has heightmaps in all 3 dimensions.

Nah, at the moment I'm more busy programming than designing so some things just have to wait... for eternity perhaps... :wink:

What can this engine handle?

Hey, what file are you guys downloading? The most recent one appears to be some kind of gz. file -- which I doubt I can open. Should I go with the 2003 zip. file?

winzip or winrar will open the tar.gz, and it will work in windows or linux,

Are you guys runnin' this on ATI cards ? Because I can't get it to work on mine. (I have to map on my old comp now, bad FPS :razz: )

Engine is described as this, Cass:

Allows in-engine editing of geometry in full 3D (you fly around the
map, point / drag stuff to select it / modify it), which can even be
done simultaneously with others in multiplayer (a first!). Has
simplistic but effective fine grain vertex lighting that looks like
lightmapping and can do dynamic lights & shadows. Doesn't need any
kind of map precompilation, even lighting is done on the fly. Has very
simplistic quad-tree world structure that can do slopes (heightfields
with caps) and slants, water, does decent collision detection &
physics, has client/server networking that goes a long way in giving a
lag-free game experience, and features a Doom/Quake-style singleplayer
(2 game modes, savegames) and multiplayer (12 game modes, master server
/ server browser, demo recording) game with some uncompromising brutal
oldskool gameplay.

Sounds interesting. I might download it.

Hmmmm, Forceflow seems to have started a cubeengine cult in snarkpit rather quickly. I dled it at home, but prolly won't be able to run it, crappy as my computer is. Just don't forget what happened with Jim Jones and at Waco, people :razz:

i'm running it on a AMD Athlon 1,2ghz, Ge-Force 2 MX 64mb , 256mb sdram, so i think everyone here can play and run it, becouse mine runs smooth as it should :smile:

I downloaded it this morning, and I like it a lot. Very fun and free :biggrin:

Hmmmm, Forceflow seems to have started a cubeengine cult in
snarkpit rather quickly. I dled it at home, but prolly won't be able to
run it, crappy as my computer is. Just don't forget what happened with
Jim Jones and at Waco, people :razz:

Cool, a cult. Worship me !

You probably c?n play it, tho. Just switch to a lower resolution or something. It's playable on my Celeron 333 with 8 mb of on-board video memory, so ...

Yea, i use an ATI card in windows, it says that they arent supported in linux however,

Ah, got it working on ATI now too. Didn't extract all the files, that's why I got error messages :razz:

yeah I remember mucking around with cube about a year ago ... it's funny coz even a half decent computer gets 999 fps :biggrin: lol