SourceTech Engine

This is a modern engine created for Noire's Mod.

Features:

From Quake3e:

• Optimized OpenGL renderer
• Optimized Vulkan renderer
• Raw mouse input support, enabled automatically instead of DirectInput(\in_mouse 1) if available
• Unlagged mouse events processing, can be reverted by setting \in_lagged 1
• \video-pipe - to use external ffmpeg binary as an encoder for better quality and smaller output files
• Significally reworked QVM (Quake Virtual Machine)
• Improved server-side DoS protection, much reduced memory usage
• Raised filesystem limits (up to 20,000 maps can be handled in a single directory)
• Reworked Zone memory allocator, no more out-of-memory errors
• Non-intrusive support for SDL2 backend (video, audio, input), selectable at compile time
• Tons of bug fixes and other improvements

SourceTech features:

• Brush limit up to 524288
• Entity limit up to 4096
• Model limit up to 4096
• Sound limit up to 4096
• Brush model limit up to 4096
• Cvar limit up to 16384
• Players and bots limit up to 256
• New weapon system with limit up to 8192
• Up to 80000000 polygons per scene
• Up to 1000000 polygons per model
• New addon system
• Simple physics (QVM-side)
• Map in UI background
• Seamless change of QVM
• Improved lighting (high resolution lightmaps and post-processing)
• Render distance for entity (server-side)
• MGui interface system with QVM and map integration
• Vehicles and additional properties of the entity
• Support huge size maps up to 4GB

Vulkan renderer

Based on Quake-III-Arena-Kenny-Edition/quake3e with many additions:

• 4K textures support
• High-quality per-pixel dynamic lighting
• Merged lightmaps (atlases)
• Smooth shader animations with 64 frames
• Rendering a huge number of entities

Highly recommended to use on modern systems

OpenGL renderer

Based on classic OpenGL renderers from idq3/ioquake3/cnq3/openarena/quake3e, features:

• 4K textures support
• High-quality per-pixel dynamic lighting
• Merged lightmaps (atlases)
• Smooth shader animations with 64 frames
• Rendering a huge number of entities

Performance is usually greater or equal to other opengl1 renderers

Build Instructions

Links

• https://www.moddb.com/games/nmod - Noire's Mod ModDB page
• https://discord.gg/TZubjHHKty - Noire's Mod Discord