CheapHack
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CheapHack is a TomazQuake-derived engine that started in January 2002 and made its final release in February 2004 after numerous delays of technical system difficulties. It is considered outdated and should not be used for serious play.
The goal of CheapHack was to have an engine that's meant to pack a few more eye candy features while maintaining compatibilty and speed with slower computers. The engine is playable on a Pentium 100MHz with a 3dfx Voodoo 2 video card and 32mb of system RAM.
Notable features:
- "Proper" detail texturing, blended correctly and taking advantage of multitexturing. A tutorial was written in 2002 for implementing this as well (It made its way into several engines at the time, including Telejano)
- Particle system allowing both additive blend and alpha blend particles
- Particle system supporting external textures rather than hardcoded (before CheapHack in 2001, I used a BSP texture hack for TomazQuake to force load replacement textures over the hardcoded particles)
- Broken multiplayer, possibly due to the inclusion of Globot.
- Flare sprite effects such as on torches, blinding flares from apocalypse explosions and gamma beams (in a certain mod that uses them)
- "Cubemapped water" effects that try to mimic Unreal Tournament 2003's shiny water, however it would use a loaded mapshot for a reflection rather than a custom-made cubemap].
- MIDI support by CD track number
- Custom particle laser SVC effect, which of course is unused and is also a non-QSG standard.
External links
- http://mods.moddb.com/286/
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