Instead of trying to add my software water implementation into our software renderer, I did it in an OpenGL renderer that everyone uses and will use anyway. This code waited for this moment for two year until somebody reminded about it...

It doesn't use shaders, it's really just that software effect implemented modifying the texture and re-uploading to GPU.

I also found some bugs and fixed them. Now it looks even more accurate. Branch isn't merged to Xash3D FWGS master yet, but I sent it for other contributors to review: https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs/pull/1475. You can find the binaries in GitHub Actions artifacts, or just wait until it gets reviewed and merged.


Comparison videos:

Did you know that @nekonomicon, one of Xash3D FWGS contributors and hlsdk-portable maintainer, tracks the list of opensourced and reverse-engineered Half-Life mods?

Yes he does!


https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs/blob/master/Documentation/opensource-mods.md

src/ https://twitter.com/uniquename02/status/1709840535996027123

Now that CS2 is released, I can finally offer a DEEP DIVE into the design process of Overpass way back in the day.

I needed some handles for this electrical thing, but being new at work I didn't want to bother anyone, so I used a pot.

This concludes the design deep dive.

src/ https://www.flipcode.com/archives/01-26-2000.shtml

Image Description, by Claudiu Marinescu

Here's a picture from one of my Christmas projects, QLeVe. It's just a simple Quake 2 level viewer with support for BSP trees, PVS, lightmaps, and the rest, written entirely in DELPHI. In the picture you can see the BIG difference between a level with lightmaps and a level without lightmaps (just textures), and the SMALL difference between lightmaps and Gouraud shading.

The difference in speed is big enough: the gouraud shading is two times faster than the lightmaps. I think that lightmaps are soon to be history, especially with the new GeForce cards coming up. If you want to see the program, it will be available at: http://cstudios.iwarp.com

Right now, that url isn't accessible, so if you want to see it anyway (or if you want the source code) mail me to: cobra@odobleja.dj.edu.ro Anyway, I wrote this program only to show that Delphi is a pretty good programming language, and it IS suitable for 3D Graphics.

Claudiu Marinescu a.k.a. "Cobra"

src/ https://www.flipcode.com/archives/08-20-1999.shtml

Image Description, by Chris Egerter

Ever wondered what Quake2 would look like with bump mapping? This is an image of a Quake2 level viewer that I ported to Power Render 3 and added bump. It uses the base textures as bump which isn't correct, but still gives a neat effect.