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soks86 on Oct 8, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Quake related work logs (1996)

Quake 3, I do believe, had it's own shader language so the designers could have more control over visual effects.

https://icculus.org/gtkradiant/documentation/Q3AShader_Manua...

The dude was definitely doing stuff no one else had ever done. Then again I have a 90's game dev book that covers ASM as well as manufacturing then programming your own sound card using the parallel port so... you're not wrong.

hnthrowaway0315 on Oct 8, 2023 [–]

Yeah I agree. He is definitely doing new stuffs no one is doing. I don't really think it's realistic for any programmer to set a such high objective.

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