id Tech 3

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id Tech 3
Developer(s)id Software
Stable release
1.32b / August 19, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-08-19)
IW engine
LicenseGNU GPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewww.idsoftware.com/business/idtech3/ Edit this on Wikidata
Star Trek: Elite Force II is one of the last games to utilize the id Tech 3 engine.

id Tech 3, popularly known as the Quake III Arena engine, is a game engine developed by id Software for its 1999 game Quake III Arena. It has subsequently been used in numerous games. Commercially, id Tech 3 competed with early versions of the Unreal Engine; both were widely licensed. Originally proprietary, it is now open-source software.

id Tech 3 is based on the earlier

IW engine, used in Call of Duty 2
onward.

At

FTP, and later moved to GitHub
.

Features

Graphics

Unlike most other game engines released at the time—including its primary competitor, the Unreal Engine—id Tech 3 requires an OpenGL-compliant graphics accelerator to run. The engine does not include a software renderer, unlike id Tech 2.

id Tech 3 introduced spline-based curved surfaces in addition to planar volumes.[2]

The graphical technology of the game is based tightly around a shader system, where the appearance of many surfaces can be defined in text files referred to as shader scripts. Shaders are described and rendered as several layers. Each layer contains a texture, a "blend mode" that determines how to superimpose it over the previous layer, and texture orientation modes such as environment mapping, scrolling, and rotation. These features can readily be seen within the game, with many bright and active surfaces in each map and even on character models. The shader system goes beyond visual appearance, defining the contents of volumes (e.g. a water volume is defined by applying a water shader to its surfaces), light emission and which sound to play when a volume is trodden upon.[3] In order to assist calculation of these shaders, id Tech 3 implements a specific fast inverse square root function, which attracted a significant amount of attention in the game development community for its clever use of integer operations.[4][5]

Networking

Like id's earlier titles Doom and Quake, Quake III Arena features multiplayer support via features built into its engine. id Tech 3 uses a snapshot system to relay information about game frames to the client over UDP. The server updates object interaction at a fixed rate independent of the rate that clients update the server with their actions, then attempts to send the state of all objects at that moment (the current server frame) to each client. The server attempts to omit as much information as possible about each frame, relaying only differences from the last frame the client confirmed as received (Delta encoding). All data packets are compressed by Huffman coding with static pre-calculated frequency data to reduce bandwidth use even further.[6]

Quake III Arena has an integrated and relatively elaborate

GPL.[7]

ioquake3

Automatic specular and normal mapping in ioQuake3, Tremulous 1.3 prerelease client

Ioquake3 is a

.avi format.[10]

The project was started shortly after the source code release with the goal of creating a

Anaglyph stereo rendering
(for viewing with 3D glasses), and numerous security fixes.

Ioquake3 is the basis of several game projects based on the id Tech 3 engine, such as

Windows and Linux.[22]

The source code for the Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory engines was released under GNU GPL-3.0-or-later on August 12, 2010.[23] The ioquake3 developers announced the start of other engine projects.[24]

The ioquake3 project has been used academic research such as Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA),[25][26] Notre Dame as the foundation for VR research,[27] and Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures.[28][29] Collaborative efforts from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Toronto use ioquake3 as a platform for their published research.[30][31] Students have used ioquake3 as the basis for advanced graphics work for their theses, such as Stephan Reiter's work[32][33] which has been noted at the LLVM project[34] due to his synthesis of the ioquake3 engine, ray-tracing rendering technique, and LLVM.

The project has since received forks, such as Quake3e,[35] Spearmint,[36] and vkQuake3.[37][38]

Other derived engines include the Daemon engine used by Unvanquished,[39][40][41] as well as competing source ports like XreaL,[42][43] Kwaak3 for Android[44][45][46][47][48][49] and Quake-3-Android-Port-QIII4A.[50]

Games

Year Title Developer Notes
1999 Quake III Arena id Software
2000 Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2 Ritual Entertainment ÜberTools
Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force Raven Software
American McGee's Alice Rogue Entertainment ÜberTools
Quake III: Team Arena
 		id Software
2001
Quake III Revolution
 		Bullfrog Productions
James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
EA Redwood Shores
 ÜberTools
Return to Castle Wolfenstein Gray Matter Studios (SP)
Nerve Software (MP)
2002 Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
2015, Inc.
 ÜberTools
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Raven Software
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix Raven Software
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Spearhead
EA Los Angeles
 ÜberTools
2003 Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Splash Damage
Star Trek: Elite Force II Ritual Entertainment ÜberTools
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Breakthrough
 		TKO Software ÜberTools
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Raven Software
Call of Duty Infinity Ward ÜberTools
2004 James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
EA Redwood Shores
 ÜberTools
Call of Duty: United Offensive Gray Matter Studios
Treyarch 		ÜberTools
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
EA Los Angeles
 ÜberTools
2008 Iron Grip: Warlord ISOTX
2009 Dark Salvation Mangled Eye Studios
Call of Duty Classic
 		Infinity Ward ÜberTools
2010 Quake Live id Software
Cancelled
Severity
Escalation Studios
Trinity: The Shatter Effect Gray Matter Studios

See also

References

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  4. ^ Eberly, David (2002). "Fast Inverse Square Root" (PDF). Geometric Tools. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 24, 2009.
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