got it.. got the latest version from div's repo.. hmm now im wondering where i shld strt.. in the engine or the game code.. hmm...

Hey guys, I used to play nexiuz quite often and over the past couple years I have learned how to model and have become quite comfortable with motion graphics, I am currrently looking for a project to contribute to. I dont have much of a portfolio but I would be glad to help out.

If you need concept art and such, I could help.

grafton wrote:Hey guys, I used to play nexiuz quite often and over the past couple years I have learned how to model and have become quite comfortable with motion graphics, I am currrently looking for a project to contribute to. I dont have much of a portfolio but I would be glad to help out.

Welcome to the forum

You can find some orientation on this thread and the slightly outdated todo list.

Cheers

grafton wrote:Hey guys, I used to play nexiuz quite often and over the past couple years I have learned how to model and have become quite comfortable with motion graphics, I am currrently looking for a project to contribute to. I dont have much of a portfolio but I would be glad to help out.

There is no animator and all modesl share the same animation. They also lack some animation scenes.

grafton wrote:Hey guys, I used to play nexiuz quite often and over the past couple years I have learned how to model and have become quite comfortable with motion graphics, I am currrently looking for a project to contribute to. I dont have much of a portfolio but I would be glad to help out.

Grafton, please, please make some models for nexuiz. Your help would be greatly appreciated and is greatly needed.

I'm interested in contributing. My expertise is Music and Sound.

My website is http://bigwavemusicstudios.com/.

There are samples available here... http://bigwavemusicstudios.com/samples.html and the original music are these items on that page.
Pop
Hip Hop
Film Score / Orchestral
Big Band

Please let me know if you need anything in this area.

Thanks.

Take a look at current maps and current music. Then suggest smth which fits the atmosphere.

Guys iv been playing around with the code for a bit.. well not that much really cos of uni exams.. an i hav one big doubt! where shld i start!!! hehe.. any1 gotta direction to point me in?

Firstly get a goal, what you would like to do (gameplay coding, engine coding, etc...). Once you become proficient with the code, there is very old todo list too.

well im interested in the engine more than the game actually tho i wld love to work on tht too.. i feel the game is already very well implemented so.. hmmm.. any particular place i should start on the engine? i mean to understand how it's built.. cos i'm used to well really small and stupid projects so quite lost when i see a lot of files.. hehe..(im quite a beginner u see..)

Animation blending, volumetric fog, snow, etc..., multi-stage shaders, md5 support, doom3 maps support, making dpm (darkplaces model) usable (there is no howto, neither some script to convert from other formats).

There is also http://www.alientrap.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Todo , but it is lacking things. Div0 could tell you much more.

hmmm.. ok those are quite advanced features.. k ill take a good look at the engine code and see what i can do. even if i cant implement such things, it'll be useful as i intend to try write my own engine someday for my portfolio.. something small of course.. ambitious eh? hehe..

and bout the dpm format, does it exist or is it in theory? hmmm.. doom 3 maps.. tht'll require some crazy amounts of work id say.. lesse..

Ask LordHavoc or Div0 for less advanced features. I only know those, which are usually complained about (ok, doom is not, added it myself ).

How to make .skin files for multiple skins on a Quake3 (md3) or DarkPlacesModel (dpm) model from http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/readme.html

yeah ill try to get in touch with them.. actually currently i was thinking of the thing u said about doom3 map support.. it is very very advanced in my opinion as the doom3 engine(idtech4) can render things that would break darkplaces.. i shall start with some simpler things.. hmmm.. lets see what i can do.. o and darkplaces source comes with a todo of its own.. dont no if u have seen it.. 50 pages long.. hope it isnt outdated.. hehe..

Just curious if you still need modellers/animators.

Of course, animator is especially required. Modeler also.

theusurper wrote:yeah ill try to get in touch with them.. actually currently i was thinking of the thing u said about doom3 map support.. it is very very advanced in my opinion as the doom3 engine(idtech4) can render things that would break darkplaces..

Actually, this is just halfway true. The limits are set by the map compiler, q3map2; DP can do much more vertices for example than q3map2 is going to output.

Found that out when making the yourewinner map - the terrain had to become external models, and the clip brushes from the terrain can't hve full quality, or q3map2 will refuse to compile the map (and when I extended the limits that broke it, it made a BSP of like 400 MB).

In other words: if you manage to add support for idtech4 map format, you may actually succeed, as the worst limits aren't even set by the engine (you'd basically get a somewhat better map compiler "for free" then).

i see.. i didnt quite understand what u meant by the following though..

In other words: if you manage to add support for idtech4 map format, you may actually succeed, as the worst limits aren't even set by the engine (you'd basically get a somewhat better map compiler "for free" then).

are you sayin: write another map compiler to support idtech4 maps or play with the engine? hmmm.. wat i understand is tht the only way to support idtech4 maps wld be to write a q4map compiler.. did i get ya right?..

o and div since ur here.. plz point me at a location to start.. the engine code i mean... i open the project get intimidated by the sheer number of files and close it.. cos i just cant seem to find a place to start.

theusurper wrote:are you sayin: write another map compiler to support idtech4 maps or play with the engine? hmmm.. wat i understand is tht the only way to support idtech4 maps wld be to write a q4map compiler.. did i get ya right?..

No. I mean that if you add idtech4 map support to the engine, we'll be able to use the idtech4 map compiler, instead of the extremely buggy and limited q3map2.

o and div since ur here.. plz point me at a location to start.. the engine code i mean... i open the project get intimidated by the sheer number of files and close it.. cos i just cant seem to find a place to start.

For other map formats, model_brush.c should be the place to add them.

If you want, you can also finish the not-yet-done support for Quake 2 maps.

ok i will look at tht.. looks like i have some work to do.. lets see how far i get..

Beginners who want to look at the engine could start and try out my suggestion here: http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=4149

Hi everyone! I'am brand new on this forum.
I want to help you with:

- music : I'am composing electronic music. Here you can try my tunes:
http://freedownloads.last.fm/download/241676166/Fluct%2BSong.mp3 one track from Last.fm
http://www.mediafire.com/?2dmzji0zujm demo 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?udy2twfjen3 demo 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?znktyymt4jn demo 3
http://www.mediafire.com/?tjnzzqmmy1o demo 4
http://www.last.fm/music/unfa/Jooze 10 tracks on Last.fm
None of these tracks was made with the game in mind, once I found I can help Nexuiz - I'am gonna play it more and make some tracks dedicated to it. I'll let you know

- sound design : I never needed to make a lot of sounds, but tell me what do you need and I'll see what can I do

- graphics : maybe I could be helpful with some minor graphic jobs; here is some of my Blender work:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2nkl0ytyzgm

I'd like to help out. I am good with C/C++ and I could also do mapping. I also have a basic idea about the opengl state machine. Interested? I have other skills (scripting, web etc.) but perhaps not relevant to your project.

I'd like to help out! I've got some experience in C/C++ and I'm good at ASM ( only MASM syntax which is the same thing used in MSVC ) mostly in optimizations driven by CPU extensions such as SSE/MMX/3dNow.
I've also got experience in the OpenGl Sate-Machine and some of the OpenGl extension such as GLSL,multitexturing,VBO&PBO,PBuffer.
I think I have a good ability of code reading. If I have to say which language I'm good at.. i must say I'm better in ASM than C

I fell great respect for all Assembler coders

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MOV your ass
ADD some stuff

What stuff?

Where did you got this code

I could have a T-shirt with that code I got it from my imagination

... So, we are all here to... develop, huh? So if we want to develop something serious, we all better learn that code

It deserves to be said again:

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MOV your ass
ADD some stuff


"Stuff" of course are all that models, textures, maps, sounds, music, animations, scripts etc.

You have a well ASseMbled imagination

In corrected for this code looks like this

.code
start:

mov your,ass
add some,stuff
imul Nexuiz,new,stuff

end start

Nice
I was using Assembler only for some extremly simple ASM emeded code in Delphi (Object Pascal)