Level J from Alienbreed3d running on the Quake 1 engine thanks to the convertor written by John Grivin that I stumbled across this christmas, and a few hours setting up the bits that it does not convert using QuArK. If I find the time I may continue... We will see...

http://s1119.photobucket.com/albums/k640/ltheden/?action=view¤t=Qbreed.jpg

and a couple from Level B (without any lighting being added in QuArK)

http://s1119.photobucket.com/albums/k640/ltheden/?action=view¤t=quake02.jpg
http://s1119.photobucket.com/albums/k640/ltheden/?action=view¤t=quake01.jpg

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@Abu_the_monkey

Excellent! Keep going. I will point this thread out to John.

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@Abu_the_monkey

Glad to see someone is making a go of this :)

A word of warning: unless you're using a re-engineered Q1 engine not based on 16.16 fixed point, you'll run in to trouble with some of the larger AB3D levels (K maybe, ISTR) that don't fit in to 4096x4096 "points". That's what stopped me originally, and by the time the floating point based Q3 engine came about I'd kinda lost interest.

nb: numbers are from memory and may be incorrect!

Good luck though :)

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@Abu_the_monkey

Wow!

@girv73

Good work!

AB3D is my favourite FPS game.

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Hmmm Alien Breed 3D was my all time favorite first person shooter. But wouldn't a modified DOOM engine be a better target for this conversion? In quake you have to position your gun, where as in Alien Breed 3D it was auto-pointed doom-style

@ddni

cheers...

@girv73

no worries chap.

I shall have to make some kind of work around for that (when/if I get that far)

and thanks again for putting the convertor out there

@Pleng

you can look up and down but you don't have to, the gun auto aims for you :)

@All

A quick run around Level a... (no were near complete but you can get an idea)

http://www.youtube.com/user/ltheden?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/WIGg2GPVgnw

enjoy.

@Abu_the_monkey

Looks good and fast. Keep going mate.

Can you use a CGX mode or it's strictly AGA (because of the game's nature)?

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It runs on anything that has had Quake ported to it...

which is nice :)

@Abu_the_monkey

that's plain awesomeness! PLEASE keep it up dude! And give a paypal link to donate! :)

So we will get Gloom and Alien Breed remake in near future, great!
Is it also possible to replace guns and enemies of Quake
by the enmies and guns of Alien Breed?

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@Abu_the_monkey

You need to remove the use of fixed point math from the entire engine (or expand it to allow 16384x16384 levels, I guess). I don't know how big a job that is. It might be a one line change in a header file and a recompile, but I doubt it. I think some of the reworked Q1 engines use floating point but I don't think any of those have been ported to Amiga.

Scaling the AB3D levels down doesn't work - you need to scale so far that you get underflow geometry errors.

You'll need to code Quake_C for all the AB3D logic around doors, keys and switches, model and skin the enemies and code their AI and animations, and model / skin / code the weapons. I think that might be all ;)

@Pleng

The DOOM engine doesn't support all the features needed to recreate the AB3D levels, specifically a true 3D "rooms over rooms" structure. It needs at least Q1 in id Tech terms. Maybe the Duke 3D engine could do it though.

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@girv73

lol, yeah its a small list eh
but I guess I'll take it one step at a time :) and very small baby steps at the speed at which I work...

@all

Someone pointed out that people may have got the wrong idea about what I am doing.
So to clear things up. I am only working on a mod to Quake. NOT a new game engine for the Amiga (classic or otherwise)
I am doing so using winUAE and while it will work on an Amiga due to Quake having been ported to it, it will still only run as fast as Quake did originaly (if not a bit slower)

The youtube vid is a bit miss leading if you don't read the description.
It to is ripped from winUAE.

If anyone wants to watch the video using ClipDown, here is a working YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIGg2GPVgnw

@Abu_the_monkey
Looks very promising. Hope you can implement the game logic/etc, so that it becomes a proper game. Maybe just skip the "too big to convert" levels?

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Is it possible to increase the resolution of the textures?
Will it include modifying the Engine?

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@Abu_the_monkey

Oh cool, I've been wanting to see QBreed for some time. Good luck with this.

@girv73

Am I right in thinking retail AB3D levels are LHA compressed? They seem to have the file header '=SB='. I've noticed you've got uncrunched levels in your archive. If you don't mind me asking what tool (if any) did you use to unpack these?

@Dafs

(I'm not sure if it's what he used, but LHA files can be opened with WinRAR)

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