[quake2] Q2 Max Working

[brendanburns at attbi.com]

Okay,
stainmaps and explosions are now working. If you comment
out ThrowGib and ThrowHead, you can work around the slow
fog of blood problem.  (but of course you can't giblitize
anyone ;-P)

--brendan
> On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 13:51, brendanburns at attbi.com wrote:
> > Well, I've got the q2 max effects working.  Check out the
> > latest version in CVS and set BUILD_QMAX to YES.  
> > The one bug I see is:
> > When you giblitize someone, it's doing some alpha effect
> > (fog maybe) that slows my machine down to a crawl.  I
> > suspect that my hardware just doesn't support it.  But if
> > someone else could check it out on newer hardware and
> > insure that it works, that'd be great.
> 
> I'll confirm that this is broken. When the gore 'fog' or whatever is
> spawned, my whole screen will flash red. 
> 
> There's a couple other issues as well. Stainmaps do not appear to be
> working. Neither marks on the wall from gunfire nor blood are being
> drawn.
> 
> Also the explosion effect from q2max is missing.
> 
> I was using sdlquake2 +set vid_ref sdlgl
> 
> This ran, but menus didnt draw correctly.
> 
> When I tried the ./quake2 +set vid_ref glx, it failed with 
> ./quake2: relocation error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1: undefined
> symbol: glGetInegerv
> 
> This is probably due to the fact that libGLU.so is a mesa lib, and
> libGL.so is an nvidia driver. However, quake2-max and a lot of other GL
> programs do not have this problem.
> 
> I haven't had so much time to look at things and I'm still trying to get
> familiar with the quake2's codebase. It'd seem that in addition to
> porting changes in ref_gl, also changes to qcommon, game and client are
> in order. I wish there were a primer for the engine, but so far ctags is
> a great help in showing me how things are connected together. 
> 
> All in all, this is a good first shot. I dunno how many times i've nuked
> my working copy while hacking on this and started over. :/
> 
> 
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