“The Dark Mod thanks you for your dedication getting (sic) the D3 source code in to mod teams (sic) hands. Knowledge should be shared!”As you may know, The Dark Mod is a thief-inspired mod for Doom 3 and so naturally uses the same engine. There has been talk in the past about the TDM team focusing on working on TDM as a standalone game at some point in the future, with all the complications that would involve having been discussed at length in the forum. The TC wouldn’t need Doom 3 to run, and therefore the space requirements needed on one’s HDD would drop. The limits with building upon Doom 3 as of right now would very likely be lifted, and the possibilities would become nearly endless as to what could be achieved within the modding community with this near 10-year-old engine.
If one looks at what the guys in the Duke Nukem community have done with the Build engine, which is over 15 years old, then one can only imagine…
It was believed for a long time that the id Tech 4 engine would be made open source after the release of Rage (which utilises id Tech 5). And true to his word, Carmack said after Rage was released, in October this year, that they just had some final legal issues to work out before the source code was released – but reassured the masses that it would happen.
This month it was reported that Carmack is working on replacing some code inside the engine seeing as there was some work borrowed from another company used for free when the game was released. Now that it’s due to be re-released, that code needs to be taken out to avoid any legal woes, it seems
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Resources:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/numb-thumbs-blog/2099819/id-software-release-doom-source-code
http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/9374
https://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/136614459887202305
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