/StormEngine2

Storm Engine 2 (modified RBDoom 3 BFG game engine)

Primary LanguageC++GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

EDIT: RB

This repo contains some changes that allows to build and run the engine in 64 bit mode with VS 2017 on Windows 10. I use this repo for merging stuff back into RBDOOM-3-BFG.

The readme below is outdated concerning the Build instructions.


Storm Engine 2

brought to you by Kot in Action Creative Artel

Storm Engine 2 Readme - https://github.com/motorsep/StormEngine2

Note: It due time minimal set of assets and external content authoring tools might be made available to the public under suitable licenses.

DISCLAIMER

This engine is provided as-is, without future support. Pull requests might or might not be accepted. Feel free to do with the engine anything you want, it's under GPL anyway. Please don't forget to credit us when using engine or parts of its code in your projects. IN ANY CASE, KOT IN ACTION CREATIVE ARTEL, AND ITS RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, REPRESENTATIVES, AGENTS, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY ALLEGED CLAIMS ARISING FROM USE OF THE ENGINE AND ITS SOURCE CODE EVEN IF KOT-IN-ACTION, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES, OR EVEN IF SUCH DAMAGES ARE FORESEEABLE, OR LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.

COPYRIGHT

Steel Storm, Storm Engine, Phaeton, art assets, ascii assets and stormengine2.ico file copyright (C) 2008-2016 Kot in Action Creative Artel

stormengine2.ico file is not allowed to be used in commercial projects.

LICENSE

Engine source code and shaders in base/renderprogs/ are licensed under GNU GPL v3. See GPL3-LICENSE.txt for the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

All assets in base/ folder (with the exception of renderprogs/ folder) are licensed under Creative Common Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives 4.0 International. See CC-BY-NC-ND-40-LICENSE.txt

ADDITIONAL TERMS: The Storm Engine 2 GPL Source Code is also subject to certain additional terms, same as Doom 3 BFG Edition GPL Source code.

COMPILING ON WIN32/WIN64 WITH VISUAL C++ 2013/2015 COMMUNITY EDITION

  1. Download and install the Visual C++ 2013/2015 Community Edition.

  2. Download and install the DirectX SDK (June 2010) here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6812

  3. Download and install MFC multibyte update https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40770 (MSVC 2013 only)

  4. Download and install the latest CMake.

  5. Generate the MSVC projects using CMake by doubleclicking a matching configuration .bat file in the neo/ folder.

  6. Open generated solution, choose solution config (Release, Debug, etc.) and build it

RUNNING ENGINE ON WIN32/WIN64

  1. Copy StormEngine2.exe into a FolderOfYourChoice/

  2. Copy base/ folder into FolderOfYourChoice/ where you copied StormEngine2.exe previously

  3. Run StormEngine2.exe

Note: legal screen is disabled in debug builds. Intro video can be skipped by pressing a key, a gamepad button or moving mouse in any build.

OVERALL CHANGES AND ADDITIONAL FEATURES

(in addition to existing set of features of the original engine)

  • Flexible build system using CMake

  • Linux support (32 and 64 bit)

  • Win64 support (including Win64 tools)

  • OpenAL Soft sound backend primarily developed for Linux but works on Windows as well

  • PNG screenshots support

  • Soft shadows using PCF hardware shadow mapping

  • True 64 bit HDR imaging

  • Soft (feathered) particles

  • Gloss maps support

  • Oblique view frustum (for proper reflections in the water)

  • High resolution RoQ videos playback

  • Blurry real-time reflections

  • Image based bloom ("glow")

  • Image dithering (eliminates banding artifacts on gradients)

  • Underwater view warping

  • Material flag to force images to be kept in RGBA format (unocmpressed)

  • Full set of built-in tools for Win32/Win64 platforms (with various fixes and improvements)

  • envShot cmd to generate cubemaps

  • Higher quality YCoCg "scaled" DXT5 compression for diffuse images (from GIMP DDS)

  • YCoCg "scaled" DXT 5 copmpression for skyboxes and cubemaps (yields high quality skies with minimal artifacts and no banding)

  • Demo recording and playback

  • LOD for static and animated entities (although not for map brushes)

  • Mods loading and packaging into .resources

  • Wheeled Vehicles (player driven and self-driving)

  • Automatic overwrite of outdated binary files when auto-authoring updated content

  • Fixed inlining (embedding) of static meshes into .proc while retaining collisions

  • Map loading progress indicator

  • Texure compression progress indicator

  • Collision fix for large coordinates

KNOWN ISSUES

  • Game crashes when saving/loading game on maps with vehicles

CODE LICENSE EXCEPTIONS - The parts that are not covered by the GPL:

EXCLUDED CODE: The code described below and contained in the Doom 3 BFG Edition GPL Source Code release is not part of the Program covered by the GPL and is expressly excluded from its terms. You are solely responsible for obtaining from the copyright holder a license for such code and complying with the applicable license terms.

JPEG library

neo/libs/jpeg-6/*

Copyright (C) 1991-1995, Thomas G. Lane

Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software (or portions thereof) for any purpose, without fee, subject to these conditions: (1) If any part of the source code for this software is distributed, then this README file must be included, with this copyright and no-warranty notice unaltered; and any additions, deletions, or changes to the original files must be clearly indicated in accompanying documentation. (2) If only executable code is distributed, then the accompanying documentation must state that "this software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group". (3) Permission for use of this software is granted only if the user accepts full responsibility for any undesirable consequences; the authors accept NO LIABILITY for damages of any kind.

These conditions apply to any software derived from or based on the IJG code, not just to the unmodified library. If you use our work, you ought to acknowledge us.

NOTE: unfortunately the README that came with our copy of the library has been lost, so the one from release 6b is included instead. There are a few 'glue type' modifications to the library to make it easier to use from the engine, but otherwise the dependency can be easily cleaned up to a better release of the library.

zlib library

neo/libs/zlib/*

Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler

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Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
  3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

Base64 implementation

neo/idlib/Base64.cpp

Copyright (c) 1996 Lars Wirzenius. All rights reserved.

June 14 2003: TTimo ttimo@idsoftware.com modified + endian bug fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=197039

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IO for (un)compress .zip files using zlib

neo/libs/zlib/minizip/*

Copyright (C) 1998-2010 Gilles Vollant (minizip) ( http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/minizip.html )

Modifications of Unzip for Zip64 Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Even Rouault

Modifications for Zip64 support Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Mathias Svensson ( http://result42.com )

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Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
  3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm

neo/idlib/hashing/MD4.cpp Copyright (C) 1991-2, RSA Data Security, Inc. Created 1991. All rights reserved.

License to copy and use this software is granted provided that it is identified as the "RSA Data Security, Inc. MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing this software or this function.

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These notices must be retained in any copies of any part of this documentation and/or software.

MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm

neo/idlib/hashing/MD5.cpp This code implements the MD5 message-digest algorithm. The algorithm is due to Ron Rivest. This code was written by Colin Plumb in 1993, no copyright is claimed. This code is in the public domain; do with it what you wish.

CRC32 Checksum

neo/idlib/hashing/CRC32.cpp Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Mark Adler

OpenGL headers

neo/renderer/OpenGL/glext.h neo/renderer/OpenGL/wglext.h

Copyright (c) 2007-2012 The Khronos Group Inc.

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