Quake64

Part of my id trilogy for Commodore 64, this one will have the most cuts to functionality, but the idea is to have a full 3d wireframe level, rendered like Mercenary's underground bases, one room at a time.

I've extracted the enemy animations and converted them to skeletons using a vertex binding approach. The enemies look like stick figures.

I've also extracted the weapons, and by converting them to quads using a greedy merge, then rendering with a z buffer and face id buffer, I was able to get some sprites that look like wireframe weapons.

I'm currently working on the weapon behaviour and the enemy behaviour, using code cribbed from Wolf64 and Doom64, tempered by the unique requirements of Quake.

I have all of E1M1-E1M3 mapped out in the level editor created for the project. This is the long pole of the development. I should put more work into it each day. First though I had to add different shaped rooms, based on tetris pieces, and make the map editor smoother so I don't feel like tearing my hair out when mapping.

I'm considering only having music play in rooms without enemies, or even only in the front end. That way I can use the voices to separate out sound effects, for example player/weapon sounds on voice 1, enemy sounds on voice 2, and doors and elevators on the noise channel.

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