Where to look first.

[Bodger]

Windows XP,
I downloaded and built using the noob guide.

I am trying to figure out where to start to look.

From my preliminary recon, it looks like darkplaces is the graphics engine used to build Nexuiz on?

It may be this http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/ which is a quake rewrite?

Then there is fteqcc, which is some c like language that the game actions are written in?

http://forums.inside3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=474

This explains why nexuiz folder is all media files.

I suppose there wouldn't be some developers documentation anywhere would there?

Bodger

[RoKenn]

From my preliminary recon, it looks like darkplaces is the graphics engine used to build Nexuiz on?

It may be this http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/ which is a quake rewrite?

It was started from the Quake 1 engine, but is heavily modified, I think they didn't leave much of the original code meanwhile.

Then there is fteqcc, which is some c like language that the game actions are written in?

http://forums.inside3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=474

Nearly. The language is QuakeC, fteqcc is the compiler. The syntax is very similar to C, it's likely that you can use the C-mode of your favourite text editor. It has some restrictions and some special features, like 3-dimensional vector.

This explains why nexuiz folder is all media files.

No, it's not, there is a lot of QuakeC code inside.
It's below data/qcsrc. All the actual game content is handled there, like HUD, game types and weapons. You will see subdirectories for server and client code.

I suppose there wouldn't be some developers documentation anywhere would there?
Bodger

Have a look at:
http://ouns.nexuizninjaz.com/dev:quakec
http://ouns.nexuizninjaz.com/dev:progra ... troduction

I think they have been written by divVerent and GreenMarine.