[rayne2]

Seven of Nine, on 04 July 2013 - 09:17 PM, said:

Yes, it will be a completely new engine designed by FS, not based on q3. I know it's a long listen, but the Q&A session is best worth listening. The questions and answers posted above are only the ones post in the forums by the community. There were loads more questions (and more elaborate answers) in the stream.

Can we know in which stage of development the engine is or at least what is roughly expected from the new engine?

[FS BladeKiller]

Rayne, the first answer in the UrT HD section explains that after over 2 years of promises from Steve Nix at id Software we did not get the things he promised like Linux and Mac support. The original contract was supposed to be a one time fee with no royalties but Zenimax added royalties and fees that we could not afford plus time restrictions and limits. We have lost all the work done on FStech1 and are now working on a new engine. We might use Ogre3d or Urho3d. We don't know for sure which yet but they are pretty similar for the artists to work with; both use mesh based geometry.

[FS Frankie V]

Yea Rayne stick with what you are doing as far as learning 3ds Max goes and you will be in good shape.

[rayne2]

Ogre is a good engine, i could work with that. Urho has some nice features and physics tho, either way both are worth the time.

[bagheera]

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[*]Will FS bring back ut4_revolution? (bagheera)
The original creater Wetwired gave QueenBee permission to maintain the map, so it's up to her. QueenBee was not a part of SID nor FS but she was a very good friend of the team.

queenbee's OK
wetwired's OK
FS has NO TIME

[|it|Seven of Nine]

So you knew the answer already before asking? Like we discussed in the stream, with the new engine we won't be working with the traditional q3 mapping tools/format. So it's not a question of simply porting it over. It would require a complete rebuild.

I do hope that a mapper would take that task on since it's one of my favourite maps, but we'll have to wait and see.

[bagheera]

Seven of Nine, on 05 July 2013 - 07:15 AM, said:

So you knew the answer already before asking?

Yep, but you shouldn't have edited my orginal question.
Blame yourself :)

Thanks for answer.

[iCu*posssesssed]

MajkiFajki, on 04 July 2013 - 08:24 PM, said:

Also, SevenOfNine forgot to add, in HD there will be no BSP compatibility, since we will not use idtech-based engine. Also, vast majority of 4.x maps will be gone, because of legal issues. Including Abbey, Sanc or Algiers. We will mostly rely on polygonal meshes, like every modern game.

!? uh, what? no sanc or abbey?

bad idea.

[rayne2]

posssesssed, on 05 July 2013 - 08:20 AM, said:

!? uh, what? no sanc or abbey?

bad idea.

The original map belongs to the original author, however.
Some mappers might consider using a well known layout to build a new map with a new theme around it, fix issues, add more features and so on.

[FS Frankie V]

rayne2, on 05 July 2013 - 09:29 AM, said:

The original map belongs to the original author, however.
Some mappers might consider using a well known layout to build a new map with a new theme around it, fix issues, add more features and so on.

On that note <shameless plug> I'll be hanging out a lot more over at CMM to keep the 3rd party mappers in the loop.