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Lazy · **Re: HL1 For other platforms? -** 31-08-2005

I was thinking about something along the lines of tenebrae for those stencil shadows and per-pixel lighting features but a generic renderer would have to be re-added for those video cards that have no shader capability.

But I think the first steps would be:

1. Decide to use either QuakeWorld or GLQuake
2. Seperate the server from the client
3. Implement the HL engine functions server-side
4. Re-compile the half-life mod for the target os/machine
5. Run it and use debug output to verify its working correctly

The client would be fairly simple...

- Strip out ALL vgui code from the hl client source
- Recompile hl client for target os/machine
- Modify quake to use the HL bsp format
- Test by having it load a hl map and noclip around
- Add client-server networking

A lot of work but it seems possible, I just wonder why no one has started already.

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Lazy Member Status: Offline Posts: 236 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Re: HL1 For other platforms? - 31-08-2005 I was thinking about something along the lines of tenebrae for those stencil shadows and per-pixel lighting features but a generic renderer would have to be re-added for those video cards that have no shader capability. But I think the first steps would be: 1. Decide to use either QuakeWorld or GLQuake 2. Seperate the server from the client 3. Implement the HL engine functions server-side 4. Re-compile the half-life mod for the target os/machine 5. Run it and use debug output to verify its working correctly The client would be fairly simple... - Strip out ALL vgui code from the hl client source - Recompile hl client for target os/machine - Modify quake to use the HL bsp format - Test by having it load a hl map and noclip around - Add client-server networking A lot of work but it seems possible, I just wonder why no one has started already.