Quake 3 source code to be released

Apparently John Carmack said that the source of Q3 will be released
while giving the keynote speech of
QuakeCon 2005. It was slated to be
released much earlier, but a licensing deal with some other company had
to be completed before it was released.

The video is
here.
I haven't seen it yet (~280MB), but it should have confirmation of the
news.

Since the Q1 and Q2 code were GPLed, I'm guessing the Q3 code will be
GPLed as well. There's this stuff and more at a
thread
up at slashdot.

I can't find a text of the speech anywhere, so if anyoone does, post it up please.

http://www.idsoftware.com/business/techdownloads/

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/source/Q3A_TA_GameSource_127.exe

I'm very interested in seeing the stuff derived from this that gets incorporated into HL/HL2

schwing

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I Ain't Gettin' On No Plane, Foo'

that's regular game source, not engine source. Also, I don't see how Q3 engine source will benefit HL/HL2 projects...? The only useful stuff would require an engine license to poke around with. :smile:

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Well, it's still good that they release it, is it not?

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that's regular game source, not engine source. Also, I don't see
how Q3 engine source will benefit HL/HL2 projects...? The only useful
stuff would require an engine license to poke around with. :smile:

GAH! Someone gave me that link and I scooped it up and posted it here
thinking it was the actual engine source. Sorry about that.

Engine license? I don't understand. I got the impression from the
speech that the entire engine source is being released (like it was for
Q1 and Q2). Did I get something wrong?

You were talking about HL and HL2 stuff, though. :smile: Q3 engine will be open-source, yes, but unless someone's licensing Source there's not much of anything people can do with that level of code... and even then, I doubt much of it would be useful and it'd make a mess of the GPL license! :razz:

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www.button-masher.net

I was thinking about parts of the AI code. I dont know about HL2, but
the HL1 SDK definitely allowed modders to tinker with the AI. I'm
guessing that there will be a lot of other such sections.

Anyway, it has actually been released now. Available from:

DemonFTP

FilePlanet

Fileshack

Or the torrent from FileRush

Don't know why I'm so interested TBH. It's not like I can personally do anything useful with it :sad:

Even if one were licensing the Source engine, you still couldn't
incroporate any Q3 code, since I highly doubt the source licensing
permits one to distribute the engine under GPL.

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Source hates soup!

Since the Q1 and Q2 code were GPLed, I'm guessing the Q3 code will be
GPLed as well. There's this stuff and more at a
thread
up at slashdot.

Yes, it is GPL'ed.

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